Applied Education

Do you think instead of a year typically in each of the natural sciences in undergraduate education for environmental science that maybe two years of biogeochemistry would be better suited? Such as you had a year of elementary science using such, and more advanced coursework on basically biogeochemistry as a discipline?

I think it would be better to make the science learned more applied early on, and with environmental science being a integrated science, I think this would be better as it would also allow for more time to spent with say mathematics, and social sciences and or studies as it pertains to environmental science.

If you are for instance a chemistry major, or a physics major, you have a very concentrate or focused major, yet with environmental science, the curriculum has to be highly interdisciplinary which still requiring the students to succeed. So if you are a student of environmental science, and you have to equate say shipping with a particular piece of ecology, how well could a person do that’s realistic to all the parts really as they would break down to just chemistry or physics?