The Minor

The Minor in Environmental Science requires a minimum of 15 credits and 5 courses in environmental topics. Minors are declared in the semester they are being completed – or at a later point prior to a student’s graduation date. (Students should be aware that some Environmental Science courses are available to non-majors on a space-available basis only.) In most cases, students are allowed to overlap one course in their major with their minor requirements in ENVIRSCI.

Minor Requirements

Select no more than one (1) of the following three courses

ENVIRSCI 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
   OR  NRC 100 Environment and Society
   OR  GEO-SCI 100 Global Environmental Change 

Select two (2) of following four courses

ENVIRSCI 213 Introduction to Environmental Policy
ENVIRSCI 214 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, & Global Change (note: restricted enrollment)
ENVIRSCI 315 Principles of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (note: restricted enrollment)
RES-ECON 262 Environmental Economics OR RES-ECON 263 Natural Resources Economics

Select two (2) courses from approved list of Upper-Level (300+) ENVIRSCI elective course.

Earth Science

ENVIRSCI 390A Environ. Soil Science
GEO-SCI 354 Climatology
GEO-SCI 415 Introduction to Geochemistry
GEO-SCI 458 Climate Change
GEO-SCI 468 GIS and Spatial Analysis
GEO-SCI 485 Applied Environ. Geology
GEO-SCI 494LI   Living on Earth
GEO-SCI 519 Aqueous & Environ. Geochem.
GEO-SCI 557 Coastal Processes
GEO-SCI 560 Geomorphology
GEO-SCI 563 Glacial Geology
GEO-SCI 587 Hydrogeology
GEO-SCI 591CP Colorado Field Trip
STOCKSCH 565 Soil Form. & Classification
STOCKSCH 570 Soil Physics

Ecology and Conservation Science

BIOLOGY 421 Plant Ecology
BIOLOGY 497H Tropical Field Biology
BIOLOGY 540 Herpetology
BIOLOGY 544 Ornithology
BIOLOGY 548 Mammology
BIOLOGY 550 Animal Behavior
ENVIRDES 335 Plants in the Landscape
ENVIRDES 547 Landscape Pattern and Process
ENVIRSCI 504 Air Pollution & Climate Chg Biol
ENVIRSCI 515 Microbiology of Soil
NRC 528 Forest & Wetland Hydrology
NRC 540 Forest Management
NRC 564 Wildlife Habitat Management
NRC 565 Dyn. & Mgt of Wildlife Populations
NRC 570 Ecology of Fish
NRC 571 Fisheries Science & Management
NRC 578 Watershed Science & Mgt

Environmental Policy & Land Use

ECON 308 Environmental Economics
ENVIRDES 553 Resource Policy and Planning
ENVIRDES 574 City Planning
ENVIRDES 575 Environ. Law and Resource Mgt
ENVIRDES 577 Urban Policies
LANDARCH 580 Sustainable Cities
LANDARCH 582 Landscape & Green Urbanism
GEO-SCI 360 Economic Geography
GEO-SCI 362 Conservation Geography
GEO-SCI 370 Urban Geography
GEO-SCI 372 Urban Issues
GEO-SCI 380 Political Geography
GEO-SCI 420 Political Ecology
GEO-SCI 497E Geography, Policy & Environ.
GEO-SCI 497WG Water Geographies: Conflict & Sustainability
GEO-SCI 510 Natural Hazards
GEO-SCI 592N National Parks & Protected Areas
NRC 382 Human Dimensions Nat. Resource Mgt
NRC 409 Natural Resources Policy & Admin.
NRC 576 Water Resources Mgt & Policy
POLISCI 382 Environmental Policy
REGIONPL 558 Issues in Environmental Mgt
RESECON 471Benefit-Cost Analysis
RESECON 472 Advanced topics Resource & Environmental Economics
NRC 590CG Global Change Ecology
NRC 597F Conservation Genetics
NRC 597WP Wetland Plant Id.& Ecology
STOCKSCH 326 Insect Biology
STOCKSCH 555 Urban Plant Biology  

Environmental Quality, Planning & Assessment

CE-ENGIN 370 Intro Environ.& Water Resources
ENVIRSCI 452 Haz. Waste Operations & Emergency Response
ENVIRSCI 465 Principles of Environ. Site Assessment
ENVIRSCI 575 Environmental Soil Chemistry
GEO-SCI 331 Geological Mapping
GEO-SCI 352 Computer Mapping
GEO-SCI 468 GIS & Spatial Analysis
GEO-SCI 591CM Introduction to Climate & Environmental Monitoring
MICROBIO 310 General Microbiology
MICROBIO 312 Gen Microbiology Lab
MICROBIO 385 Intro Biotechnology Lab
MICROBIO 562 Environ. Biotechnology
NRC 534 Forest Measurements
NRC 575 Case Studies in Land Conserv.
NRC 577 Ecosystem Modeling & Simulation
NRC 585 Introduction to GIS
NRC 586 Natural Resource Inventory of Local Lands
NRC 587 Digital Remote Sensing
NRC 597W Wetlands Assessment
STOCKSCH 585 Inorganic Contaminants in Soil, Water & Sediment
STOCKSCH 597A Phyto/Bioremediation
STOCKSCH 597O Organic Contaminants
STOCKSCH 597W Artificial Treatment Wetlands
PUBHLTH 303 Intro Environmental Health Sciences
PUBHLTH 562 Air Quality Assessment
PUBHLTH  565 Environmental Health Practices
PUBHLTH  590A Contaminant Fate and Transport in Aquatic Systems
PUBHLTH  590N Indoor Environment and Health
REGIONPL 553 Resource Policy and Planning