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# Bachelor of Science (Research)

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Bachelor of Science (Research) • Major

# Earth & Environmental Science

## Basic Structure

The Earth & Environmental Science major offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Earth's systems. The curriculum covers topics ranging from climate science and environmental chemistry to geochemistry and ecological systems, preparing students to address critical environmental challenges. All students are required to complete a minimum of 131 credits to qualify for the Bachelor of Science (Research) degree.

| Basic Course (Sem 1-3) | Engineering (Sem 2-3) | Humanities (Sem 1-6) | Major and Project | Minor (Optional) | Electives (Assortment Courses) | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 40 | 6 | 9 | 51 | 15 | 10 - 25 | 131 |
|  | | | | 25\* | |

NOTE:

1. **\*Students not opting for a minor** should fulfil 25 credits of assortment courses.
2. To be eligible for a minor, a student should fulfil 15 credits from the minor pool.
3. Excess credit(s) from any pool will be counted towards assortment credits.

## Semester-wise Course Requirements

To view the common shared curriculum (Semesters 1-3), please [click here](https://bs-ug.iisc.ac.in/course-structure/shared-curriculum).

Semester 4Semester 5Semester 6Semester 7Semester 8

| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor | Credits |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UEES 206 | Experimental Methods in Environmental Chemistry | [Sreenivasan Ramaswami](https://www.suspaani-lab.com/team/sreenivasan-ramaswami) | 2:1 |
| UEES 207 | Geophysical Processes | [Attreyee Ghosh](https://ceas.iisc.ac.in/~aghosh/), [Pawan Bharadwaj](https://ceas.iisc.ac.in/author/pawan-bharadwaj/), [Binod Sreenivasan](https://ceas.iisc.ac.in/~bsreeni/) | 3:0 |
| UEES 208 | Introduction To Mineralogy and Petrology | [K. Sajeev](https://ceas.iisc.ac.in/author/sajeev-krishnan/) | 2:1 |
| - | [Humanities \*\*](https://bs-ug.iisc.ac.in/assets/Humanities%20Courses.%20.pdf)/Elective | - | 8:11 |
| Reduced Load | | | 15-17 |
| Enhanced Load | | | 15-21 |

Note:

\*\*

Humanities:

**A.** Humanities courses cannot be dropped in both semesters IV and V.

**B.** Students must complete 9 credits in humanities pool by the end of six semester.

### Recommended Course Load

| Semester | Criteria | Credits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| I | Student needs to register for a fixed number of credits | 18 |
| II | No CGPA and TGPA requirements | Min.: 17 and Max.: 21 |
| III | No CGPA and TGPA requirements | Min.: 17 and Max.: 21 |
| IV | CGPA < 8.0 | Min.: 15 and Max.: 17 |
| CGPA ≥ 8.0 | Min.: 15 and Max.: 21 |
| V to VIII | CGPA < 8.0 or Preceding term TGPA < 8.0 | Min.: 16 and Max.: 18 |
| CGPA ≥ 8.0 or Preceding term TGPA ≥ 8.0 | Min.: 16 and Max.: 21 |

## Suggested Core Electives:

In addition to below listed electives, courses offered by the EES programme i.e; [Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS)](http://ceas.iisc.ac.in/), [Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST)](http://cst.iisc.ac.in/), [Civil Engineering (CiE)](http://civil.iisc.ac.in/), [Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS)](http://caos.iisc.ac.in/), and [Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR) (Selected courses)](https://icwar.iisc.ac.in/).

\* Please discuss course selection with EES coordinators.

| Course Code | Title | Credits | Instructors |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AS 202 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| AS 203 | Atmospheric Thermodynamics | 3:0 | - |
| AS 204 | Atmospheric Radiation and Climate | 3:0 | - |
| AS 205 | Ocean Dynamics | 2:1 | - |
| AS 207 | Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| AS 208 | Satellite Meteorology | 3:0 | - |
| AS 209 | Mathematical Methods in Climate Science | 3:0 | - |
| AS 210 | Numerical methods in atmospheric modeling | 3:0 | - |
| AS 211 | Observational Techniques | 2:1 | - |
| AS 214 | Atmospheric Boundary Layer | 3:0 | - |
| AS 216 | Introduction to climate system | 3:0 | - |
| AS 302 | Climate Modeling | 3:0 | - |
| AS 307 | Chemistry and Physics of Atmosphere and Climate | 3:0 | - |
| AS 308 | Ocean Modeling | 2:1 | - |
| AS 310 | The Science of Climate Change | 3:0 | - |
| AS 311 | Topics in Tropical Convection | 3:0 | - |
| AS 313 | Non-Linear Model in Climate Sciences | 3:0 | - |
| CE 201 | Basic Geo-mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 202 | Foundation Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 203 | Surface Water Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 204 | Solid Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 205 | Finite Element Method | 3:0 | - |
| CE 206 | Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 206 | Earth and Earth Retaining Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 206N | Earth and Earth Retaining Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 207 | Geo-environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 207 | Geo-environmental Engineering | 2:0 | - |
| CE 207N | Geo-environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 208 | Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 209 | Mechanics of Structural Concrete | 3:0 | - |
| CE 210 | Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 211 | Mathematics for Engineers | 3:0 | - |
| CE 212 | Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems | 3:0 | - |
| CE 212 | Computational Fluid Dynamics in Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 212N | Computational Fluid Dynamics in Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 213 | Systems Techniques in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 213 | Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering | 0:1 | - |
| CE 213N | Systems Techniques in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 214 | Ground Water Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 215 | Stochastic Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 216 | An Introduction to Finite Elements in Solid Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 216 | Finite Element Structural Analysis | 3:0 | - |
| CE 217 | Linear Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 217 | Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 218 | Fire structural engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 218 | Optimization Methods | 3:0 | - |
| CE 219 | Non-linear Structural Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 219 | SOIL DYNAMICS | 3:0 | - |
| CE 219 | Stability of Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 220 | Design of Substructures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 221 | Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 222 | Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour | 3:0 | - |
| CE 222N | Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour | 2:1 | - |
| CE 224 | Behaviour and Testing of Unsaturated Soils | 2:1 | - |
| CE 225 | Engineering Rock Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 226 | Open-channel Flow | 3:0 | - |
| CE 227 | Engineering Seismology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 228 | Continuum Plasticity | 3:0 | - |
| CE 229 | Non-Destructive Evaluation Methods for Concrete Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 230 | Pavement Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 231 | Design of Substructures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 231 | Soil Stabilization by Admixtures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 231 | Forensic Geotechnical Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 231 | Soil Stabilization by Admixtures | 2:0 | - |
| CE 231N | Micro-characterization of Clay Soils | 0:1 | - |
| CE 232 | Fundamentals of Soil behaviour | 2:0 | - |
| CE 232 | Soil Stabilization by Admixtures | 2:0 | - |
| CE 232 | Geotechnical Engineering and Rehabilitation of Dams | 3:0 | - |
| CE 233 | Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 234 | Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 234 | Nonlinear Analysis in Earthquake Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 234 | Soil Dynamics | 2:0 | - |
| CE 234 | Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering | 2:0 | - |
| CE 235 | Optimization Methods | 3:0 | - |
| CE 236 | Fracture Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 237 | Soil Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 237 | Rock Mechanics | 2:0 | - |
| CE 237 | Soil Dynamics | 2:0 | - |
| CE 238 | Structural Masonry | 3:0 | - |
| CE 238 | Computational Geotechnics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 239 | Stochastic Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 239 | Computational Geotechnics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 239N | Stochastic Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 240 | Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis | 3:0 | - |
| CE 241 | Advanced Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 241 | Introduction to the Theory of Plasticity | 2:0 | - |
| CE 241 | Reliability in Geotechnical Systems | 3:0 | - |
| CE 241 | Introduction to the Theory of Plasticity | 3:0 | - |
| CE 242 | Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 242 | Fire structural engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 243 | Bridge Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 244 | Monte Carlo simulations in structural mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 245 | Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems | 3:0 | - |
| CE 245N | Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems | 3:0 | - |
| CE 246 | Urban Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 247 | Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 247N | Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources & Environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 248 | Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 248N | Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 249 | Water Quality Modeling | 3:0 | - |
| CE 251 | Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 252 | Ground Water Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 253 | Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 253 | Soft Computing in Water Resources & Environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 253 | Water Quality Modelling | 3:0 | - |
| CE 254 | Advanced Fracture Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 255 | Urban Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 256 | Stochastic Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 257 | Advanced Hydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 258 | Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources & Environmental Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 259 | Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 261 | Urban Transportation Systems Planning | 3:0 | - |
| CE 261 | Traffic Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 262 | Public Transportation Systems Planning | 3:0 | - |
| CE 262 | Geoinformatic in Transport Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 263 | Modelling Transport and Traffic | 3:0 | - |
| CE 264 | Traffic Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 265 | Geo-informatics in Transportation Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 266 | Pavement Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 267 | Transportation Statistics and Micro-simulation | 3:0 | - |
| CE 268 | Discrete Choice Modelling Methods for Transportation Planning | 3:0 | - |
| CE 269 | Traffic Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 270 | Travel Demand Modeling | 3:0 | - |
| CE 271 | Discrete Choice Modeling Methods for Transportation Planning | 3:0 | - |
| CE 272 | Traffic Network Equilibrium | 3:0 | - |
| CE 272 | Continuum Damage Mechanics | 2:0 | - |
| CE 273 | Markov Decision Processes | 3:0 | - |
| CE 273 | Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 274 | Sustainable Urban Transportation Planning | 3:0 | - |
| CE 274 | Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures | 3:0 | - |
| CE 275 | Nonlinear FEM in Structural Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 275 | Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis | 2:0 | - |
| CE 276 | Structural Masonry | 3:0 | - |
| CE 277 | Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 278 | Optimization Methods | 3:0 | - |
| CE 279 | Computational Geotechnics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 281 | Multiscale Fracture of Quasi-Brittle Materials | 3:0 | - |
| CE 282 | Advanced Concrete Design (Plain, Reinforced and Prestressed) | 3:0 | - |
| CE 283 | Random vibrations and structural reliability | 3:0 | - |
| CE 287 | Stochastic Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 288 | Elements of Wavelet Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 288 | Elements of Wavelet Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics | 2:0 | - |
| CE 289 | Engineering Seismology | 3:0 | - |
| CE 290 | Structural System Identification | 3:0 | - |
| CE 291 | Uncertainty modelling and analysis | 3:0 | - |
| CE 291 | Computation in Structural Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 292 | FEM for structural dynamic and stability analyses | 3:0 | - |
| CE 293 | Bridge Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CE 294 | Monte Carlo Simulations in Structural Mechanics | 3:0 | - |
| CE 296 | Random Vibrations and Structural Reliability | 3:0 | - |
| CE 297 | Problems in the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity | 3:0 | - |
| CE 298 | Parallel computing in mechanics problems | 3:0 | - |
| CE 299 | Project | 0:22 | - |
| CH 201 | Engineering Mathematics | 3:0 | - |
| CH 202 | Numerical Methods | 3:0 | - |
| CH 203 | Transport Processes | 3:0 | - |
| CH 204 | Thermodynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CH 205 | Chemical Reaction Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CH 206 | Seminar Course | 1:0 | - |
| CH 207 | Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering II | 0:2 | - |
| CH 207 | Applied statistics and design of experiments | 1:0 | - |
| CH 234 | Rheology of Complex Fluids and Particulate Materials | 3:0 | - |
| CH 235 | Modeling in Chemical Engineering | 3:0 | - |
| CH 236 | Statistical Thermodynamics | 3:0 | - |
| CH 242 | Special Topics in Theoretical Biology | 3:0 | - |
| CH 243 | Mechanics of Particle suspensions | 3:0 | - |
| CH 245 | Interfacial and Colloidal Phenomena | 3:0 | - |
| CH 248 | Molecular Systems Biology | 3:0 | - |
| CH 249 | Structural and Functional DNA Nanotechnology | 3:0 | - |
| CH 299 | Dissertation Project | 0:32 | - |
| ES 201 | Introduction to Earth System Science | 2:1 | - |
| ES 201 | Introduction to Earth System | 3:0 | - |
| ES 202 | Biogeochemistry | 3:0 | - |
| ES 203 | Introduction to Petrology | 3:0 | - |
| ES 204 | Origin and Evolution of the Earth | 3:0 | - |
| ES 205 | Mathematics for Geophysicists | 3:0 | - |
| ES 206 | Topics in Geophysics | 3:0 | - |
| ES 207 | Earth Science Laboratory | 0:3 | - |
| ES 208 | Applied Petrology and Geochemistry | 3:0 | - |
| ES 208 | Mantle Convection | 3:0 | - |
| ES 209 | Geochemistry or Understanding Natural Materials: A Geochemical Approach | 3:0 | - |
| ES 209 | Biogeochemistry | 3:0 | - |
| ES 210 | Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry | 3:0 | - |
| ES 210 | Tectonics and Crustal Evolution | 3:0 | - |
| ES 211 | Origin and Evolution of the Earth | 3:0 | - |
| ES 211 | Economic minerals and tectonic processes | 2:1 | - |
| ES 211 | Applied Petrology | 3:0 | - |
| ES 212 | Fluid dynamics of planetary interiors | 3:0 | - |
| ES 212 | Lithosphere Dynamics | 3:0 | - |
| ES 213 | Isotope Geochemistry | 3:0 | - |
| ES 214 | Mathematics for Geophysics | 3:0 | - |
| ES 214 | Topics in stratigraphy and geochronology | 3:0 | - |
| ES 215 | Introduction to Chemical Oceanography | 3:0 | - |
| ES 216 | Advanced Chemical Oceanography | 3:0 | - |
| ES 217 | Earth System Processes and Interactions | 3:0 | - |
| ES 218 | Introduction to Seismology | 3:0 | - |
| ES 220 | Introduction to satellite Geodesy | 3:0 | - |
| ES 221 | Dynamics of Planetary Interiors | 3:0 | - |
| ES 222 | Data Analysis for Earth System Science | 3:0 | - |
| ES 225 | Scientific writing and presentation | 1:0 | - |
| ES 299 | Dissertation Project | 0:25 | - |
| ES 401 | Natural Hazards and Their Mitigation | 3:0 | - |
| ST 203 | Design, Technology and Sustainability | 3:0 | - |
| ST 206 | Environmental and Natural Resources Management | 2:1 | - |
| ST 210 | Principles and Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing | 3:1 | - |
| ST 213 | Turbo Machine in Renewable Energy | 3:0 | - |
| ST 214 | Mathematical Analysis of Experimental Data | 3:0 | - |
| ST 216 | Physics in Experiments with Classical Statistics | 3:0 | - |
| ST 218 | Sustainable Wastewater Management | 3:0 | - |
| ST 220 | Principles of Remote Sensing | 3:0 | - |
| ST 226 | Sustainable Water Management | 3:0 | - |
| UES 306 | Surface and Ground Water Quality | 3:0 | - |
| UES 309 | Waste water treatment | 3:0 | - |
| WR 204 | Aqueous Geochemistry | 3:0 | - |

## Continuing Master's Degree

Students have the option to continue for the **Master of Science (MS) degree** after completing four years of the Bachelor of Science (BS).

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#### Project Requirement

- **20 credits** from the Project / Dissertation with the Masters’ thesis advisor.

#### Coursework Requirement (12 Credits)

Students must complete **Any 4 courses (12 credits)** from the participating Departments/Centres:

Civil Engineering (CiE)

Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS)

Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS)

Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST)

**Note:** Equivalent courses as per the students’ handbook may also be taken after a discussion with the EES coordinators.