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The following table displays the degree requirement of the program:
No. | Category | Semester Credit Hours (SCH) |
| 1 | General Education Core Curriculum | 42 |
| 2 | Required Support Courses | 21 |
| 3 | Required Area Course | 35 |
| 4 | Free Electives | 22 |
| TOTAL SCH Requirement | 120 |
The table below lists the courses in each of the categories. Note that only the suggested elective courses are included here. Electives must include nine (9) SCHs of upper-division courses.
A sample course map is provided here, to help students plan ahead their schedule.
| Category | SCH |
| 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CORE CURRICULUM | 42 |
| ENGL 1301: Composition I | 3 |
| ENGL 2311: Technical Writing | 3 |
| *MATH 1314: College Algebra or MATH 1316: Trigonometry or MATH 2312: Pre-Calculus or MATH 2313: Calculus I | 3 |
| CHEM 1311: General Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM 1312: General Chemistry II | 3 |
| GE (Language/Philosophy/Culture) | 3 |
| GE (Creative Arts) | 3 |
| HIST 1301: U.S. History to 1865 | 3 |
| HIST 1302: U.S. History since 1865 | 3 |
| POLS 2301: Federal Government | 3 |
| POLS 2302: Texas Government | 3 |
| ECON 2301: Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| SPCH 1315: Fundamentals of Public Speaking | 3 |
| MATH 1342: Introductory Statistics | 3 |
| * Note: students intent on a graduate school should take | |
| 2. REQUIRED SUPPORT COURSES | 21 |
| BIOL 1306: General Biology I: Attributes of Living Systems; BIOL 1106: General Biology I Lab | 3+1 |
| BIOL 1307: General Biology II: Biology of Organisms; BIOL 1107: General Biology II Lab | 3+1 |
| CHEM 1111: General Chemistry I Lab; CHEM 1112: General Chemistry II Lab | 1+1 |
| PHYS 1301: General Physics I | 3 |
| GEOL 1301: Earth Sciences I; GEOL 1101: Earth Sciences I Lab | 3+1 |
| WATR 4181: Research | 1 |
| UNIV 1301: Freshmen Seminar | 3 |
3. REQUIRED AREA COURSES | 35 | |
| WATR 1301: Introduction to Water Treatment | 3 | |
| WATR 1302: Introduction to Wastewater Treatment | 3 | |
| CHEM 2371: Water and Wastewater Chemistry; CHEM 2171: Water and Wastewater Chemistry Lab | 3+1 | |
| WATR 3312: Water Laws, Rules and Policy | 3 | |
| WATR 3331: Hydrology | 3 | |
| WATR 3320: Pollutants in Environmental Systems | 3 | |
| WATR 3325: Aquatic Systems Science | 3 | |
| WATR 3330: Green Systems for Wastewater Management | 3 | |
| One of the following: WATR 3340: Water Resources Science and Technology Internship; or WATR 4315: Advanced Wastewater Recycling Systems | 3 | |
| WATR 4191: Senior Seminar | 1 | |
| WATR 4310: Desalination and Emerging Technologies | 3 | |
| WATR 4330: Water Management and Field Investigations | 3 | |
4. ELECTIVES (Must include nine hours of upper-division courses) | 22 | |
| Suggested courses: BIOL 2421: General Microbiology BIOL 3407: Ecology CHEM 3331: Quantitative Analysis CHEM 4332: Instrumental Analysis WATR 2350: Topics in Water Resources | ||