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  GEOGRAPH 110 Global Environmental Change

Select two (2) of the following courses:

ENVIRSCI 213 Introduction to Environmental Policy (note: restricted enrollment)
ENVIRSCI 214 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, & Global Change (note: restricted enrollment)
ENVIRSCI 315 Principles of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (note: restricted enrollment)
ENVIRSCI 397R Renewable Energy & Sustainability OR NRC 297R Renewable Energy & Sustainability (not both)
GEOGRAPH 497R Rethinking US Environmental Policy
RES-ECON 262 Environmental Economics OR RES-ECON 263 Natural Resources Economics (not both)

Select two (2) courses from approved list of Upper-Level (300+) ENVIRSCI elective course, for a total of 15 or more total credits:

Earth Science

ENVIRSCI 364 Environ. Soil Science (formerly 390A)
GEOGRAPH 354 Climatology
GEO-SCI 415 Introduction to Geochemistry
GEOGRAPH 468 GIS and Spatial Analysis
GEO-SCI 485 Applied Environ. Geology
GEOLOGY 494LI Living on Earth
GEO-SCI 519 Aqueous & Environ. Geochem.
GEO-SCI 557 Coastal Processes
GEOGRAPH 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 487H Tropical Field Biology
BIOLOGY 540 Herpetology
BIOLOGY 544 Ornithology
BIOLOGY 548 Mammology
BIOLOGY 550 Animal Behavior
SUSTCOMM 335 Plants in the Landscape
SUSTCOMM 547 Landscape Pattern and Process
ENVIRSCI 515 Microbiology of Soil
NRC 528 Forest & Wetland Hydrology
NRC 540 Forest Management
NRC 547 Global Change Ecology
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
NRC 568 Wetland Soils (formerly 590WS)
NRC 580 Conservation Genetics
NRC 590IE Invasion Ecology
STOCKSCH 326 Insect Biology

Environmental Policy & Land Use

ECON 308 Environmental Economics
SUSTCOMM 553 Resource Policy and Planning
SUSTCOMM 574 City Planning
SUSTCOMM 575 Environ. Law and Resource Mgt
SUSTCOMM 577 Urban Policies
LANDARCH 580 Sustainable Cities
LANDARCH 582 Landscape & Green Urbanism
GEOGRAPH 360 Economic Geography
GEOGRAPH 362 Conservation Geography
GEOGRAPH 370 Urban Geography
GEOGRAPH 372 Urban Issues
GEOGRAPH 380 Political Geography
GEOGRAPH 420 Political Ecology
GEOGRAPH 497E Geography, Policy & Environ.
GEOGRAPH 497WG Water Geographies: Conflict & Sustainability
GEO-SCI 510 Natural Hazards
GEOGRAPH 492NP National Parks & Protected Areas
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

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
ENVIRSCI 585 Inorganic Contaminants in Soil, Water & Sediment
ENVIRSCI 587 Phytobioremediation
GEOLOGY 331 Geological Mapping
GEOGRAPH 352 Computer Mapping
GEOGRAPH 468 GIS & Spatial Analysis
GEO-SCI 591CM Introduction to Climate & Environmental Monitoring
MICROBIO 310 General Microbiology
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
PUBHLTH 562 Air Quality Assessment
PUBHLTH 565 Environmental Health Practices
PUBHLTH 590A Contaminant Fate & Transport in Aquatic Systems
PUBHLTH 590N Indoor Environment & Health
REGIONPL 553 Resource Policy & Planning