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.) Students are allowed to overlap no more than two courses 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 and prerequisite)
ENVIRSCI 315 Principles of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (note: restricted enrollment and prerequisite)
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 Environmental Soil Science
ENVIRSCI 390J Landscape & Watershed Biogeochemistry
ENVIRSCI 565 Soil Formation and Classification
GEOGRAPH 354 Climate Dynamics
GEOGRAPH 468 GIS and Spatial Analysis
GEOGRAPH 560 Geomorphology
GEOLOGY 415 Introduction to Geochemistry
GEOLOGY 485 Applied Environ. Geology
GEO-SCI 519 Aqueous & Environ. Geochem.
GEO-SCI 557 Coastal Processes
GEO-SCI 563 Glacial Geology
GEO-SCI 587 Hydrogeology
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 Mammalogy
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 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 309 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
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 562 Environ. Biotechnology
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
PUBHLTH 360 Air Pollution & Health
PUBHLTH 433 Ecotoxicology & Public Health
EHS 562 Air Quality Assessment
EHS 565 Environmental Health Practices
EHS 567 Environmental Compliance Regulations
REGIONPL 553 Resource Policy & Planning