Environmental Studies Minor
To earn a minor in Environmental Studies, students must complete a minimum of 16 credit hours, which includes two core courses and a minimum of three elective courses. Students must take at least one elective course in each of two thematic areas, Environmental Social Sciences and Policy and Environmental Natural Sciences. At least one elective must be at the 400-level. The Environmental Studies Program may approve up to seven semester hours of lower- and upper-division transfer credits toward the undergraduate minor in Environmental Studies. Students are expected to meet with an ENS advisor before beginning the minor.
Requirements
| Required Core Courses | ||
| ENS 251 | Introduction to Environmental Sciences | 3 |
| ENS 271 | Introduction to Sustainability | 3 |
| Elective Courses (at least 3 required) 1 | ||
| The 100- to 300-level elective courses listed below are each three credit hours. Undergraduate students enrolling in 400-level courses listed as “three or four hours” must enroll in the three-credit hour section. 400-level courses counted toward an undergraduate degree cannot be taken again and counted for credit toward a graduate degree | 10 | |
| Environmental Social Sciences and Policy (at least 1 course required) | ||
| Women and the Environment | ||
| ECCE: Global Change in Local Places | ||
| ECCE: Cultural Geography | ||
| ECCE: Environmental Justice: Science, Policy, and Activism | ||
| ECCE: Introduction to Environmental Education | ||
| ECCE: American Environmental History | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Sustainable Food Systems | ||
| Agricultural Politics & Policy | ||
| Water Resources and Society | ||
| Political Ecology AKA The Political Life of Trees, Trash, & Turtles | ||
| Environmental Policies: National Environmental Policy Act | ||
| Environmental Policies: Water Quality | ||
| China's Environment and the World | ||
| Environmental Natural Sciences (at least 1 course required) | ||
| Principles Of Ecology | ||
| Earth Science | ||
| Environmental Physical Geography | ||
| Mapping our Physical and Social World | ||
| Transportation: Problems and Planning Procedures | ||
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Fundamentals of Remote Sensing | ||
| Ecological Issues | ||
| Aquatic Ecology | ||
| Biology Of Water Pollution | ||
| Environmental Chemistry | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Consulting | ||
| Our Changing Climate | ||
| Paleoecology | ||
| Ecohydrology | ||
| Environmental Geology | ||
| Urban Environments | ||
| Renewable Energy | ||
| Total Hours | 16 | |
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Students may count up to four hours of ENS 440 Topics in Environmental Studies with approval of a Student Petition