Academic Catalog 2025-2026

Environmental Toxicology (Thesis Option), Master of Science

Admission Criteria

Graduation with a Bachelor of Science Degree in a related academic area.

Applicants must present an undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 overall or for the last sixty (60) hours. 

Applicants are expected to present evidence of having completed the following courses with the indicated total semester credit hours (in parentheses):

General Chemistry w/laboratory8
General Organic Chemistry w/laboratory8
Biology w/laboratory8
Physics8
Calculus4
Total Hours36

Degree Requirements

Thesis Track

The requirements for the Master of Science in Environmental Toxicology are summarized below:

  1. Satisfactory performance on the Qualifying Examination.
  2. Completion of a total of twenty-four (24) semester credit hours of graduate level courses. A minimum of nine (9) of these credit hours must be in core courses. A total of fifteen (15) credit hours of electives must be taken. Six (6) credit hours are required for the research thesis.
  3. Presentation of a thesis proposal to a committee composed of members of the environmental toxicology faculty and representatives of the Graduate School.
  4. Completion and presentation (through an oral defense) of a thesis to a committee composed of members of the Environmental Toxicology faculty and representatives of the Graduate School.
  5. Fulfillment of general requirements for graduation as outlined by the Graduate School (see the General Information Section of this bulletin).

Admission to Candidacy

Master’s degree students will achieve candidacy after passing the qualifying examination, the English proficiency examination, and course work requirements.

Residency Requirement

Master’s students will achieve residency after completing course requirements.

Thesis

Students pursuing the master’s degree must write and defend a thesis based on research done on an approved problem in environmental toxicology. The defense of the thesis will be made before the student’s thesis committee.

Core Courses (9 SCH)

Choose 9 credit hours from the following:

ES 701Principles of Toxicology3
ES 702Environmental Toxicology I3
ES 703Environmental Science3
ES 704Aquatic Resources & Pollution3
ES 705Environmental Policy & MGMT3
ES 707Ground Water Contamination3
ES 902Environmental Toxicology II3
ES 906Environmental Geology3
ES 908Sample Analysis3
ES 910Reproductive Toxicology3
ES 913Adv Simulation Modeling3
ES 929Toxicology III3
ES 931Ethics3

Electives (15 SCH)

ES 711Air Pollution3
ES 718Special Topics Environ Tox3
ES 720GIS for Environmental Sciences3
ES 730Introduction to Remote Sensing Image Processing3
ES 909Sample Analysis Labortory3
ES 912Neurotoxicology3
ES 914Modeling Laboratory3
ES 915Adv Physical Chemistry3
ES 916Chemistry of Natural Products3
ES 919Special Topics3
ES 920Special Topics3
ES 921Sem in Envir Toxicology2
ES 922Sem in Envir Toxicology2
ES 923Sem in Envir Toxicology2
ES 927Biomedical Statistics3
ES 930Biochemistry3
ES 933Mutagensis Carcinogensis3
ES 934Molecular Basis of Gene Action3
ES 935Stat Aspects of Risk Assessmen3
ES 936Occ & Environ Epidemiology3

THESIS (6 SCH)

ES 724Research Problems3-6