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 are required to take at least three elective courses. At least one elective must be at the 400-level. No more than two electives may be taken from any one of the categories listed below. The Department of Environmental Studies 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 |
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. 1 | 10 | |
Environmental Policy/Law/Planning | ||
Mapping our Physical and Social World | ||
ECCE: Environmental Justice: Science, Policy, and Activism | ||
Transportation: Problems and Planning Procedures | ||
Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
Environmental Law | ||
Agricultural Politics & Policy | ||
Introduction to Environmental Consulting | ||
Environmental Policies: National Environmental Policy Act | ||
Environmental Policies: Water Quality | ||
Environmental Social Sciences/Humanities | ||
Women and the Environment | ||
ECCE: Global Change in Local Places | ||
ECCE: Introduction to Environmental Education | ||
ECCE: American Environmental History | ||
Environmental Economics | ||
Environmental Sociology | ||
Sustainable Food Systems | ||
Political Ecology AKA The Political Life of Trees, Trash, & Turtles | ||
Environmental Sciences | ||
Earth Science | ||
Environmental Physical Geography | ||
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing | ||
Ecological Issues | ||
Aquatic Ecology | ||
Biology Of Water Pollution | ||
Environmental Chemistry | ||
Our Changing Climate | ||
Paleoecology | ||
Water Resources and Society | ||
Environmental Geology | ||
Urban Environments | ||
Renewable Energy | ||
Total Hours | 16 |
1 | Students may count up to four hours of ENS 440 Topics in Environmental Studies with approval of a Student Petition. |