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Majors and Minors > Minors > Environmental Studies > Course Requirements

Course Requirements

Seven courses are required:
See details below the bulleted list.

• Geology 1100 - Environmental Issues
• A field course or an internship course or research course approved by the director
• Two of the approved humanities and social sciences courses
• Two of the approved natural sciences courses
• Environmental Studies 4911 - Environmental Studies Seminar

Natural Sciences:

BIOL 1010 General Botany
BIOL 2200 Ecology
BIOL 3200 Aquatic Biology
BIOL 3310 Ornithology
BIOL 3320 Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods
CHEM 1213 and 1211 General Inorganic Chemistry I and Lab
CHEM 1223 and 1221 General Inorganic Chemistry II and Lab
CHEM 3730 Environmental Chemistry
ENVS 2001 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOL 1000 the Physical Earth
GEOL 2000 Plate Tectonics and Earth History
GEOL 3300 Hydrology and Chemistry of Natural Waters
GEOL 4300 Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
IDST 1710 Human & Natural Disasters

Humanities and Social Sciences:

ADMN 4750 Special Topics: Environmental Law
ECON 2000 Principles of Economics
HIST 4760 Special Topics: Modern Environmental History
HIST 3710 Environment, Technology and Power
PHIL 2120 Environmental Ethics
PLSC 1000 American Government
PLSC 2010 American Public Policy
RLST 3150 Religion, Science and Nature
SOAN 1100 Introduction to Anthropology
SOAN 1110 Introduction to Archaeology
SOAN 2410 Human Ecology
SOAN 2850: Environmental Anthropology
SOAN 3120/LAST 3750 Latin American Cultures and Environments
SOAN 4730 Geographic Information Systems and Archaeology
SOAN 4750 Applied Anthropology: Environment, Health and Development

Field courses:

BIOL 3210 Field Biology
ENVS 2000 Applied Sustainability
GEOL 3500-3503 Field Study in Geology
GEOL 3510 Yellowstone Field Study
GEOL 4402 Field Methods
GEOL 4900 Field Geology
IDST 1700 Topics in the Natural Sciences: Galápagos Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
PLSC 4600 Special Topics in Political Science: Ghana in Transition
SOAN 3006 Summer in China
SOAN 3410 Archaeological Field School
STDA 2020 Living in the Yucatán I
STDA 2030 Living in the Yucatán II

4911 Environmental Studies Seminar (1 semester hour).
An interdisciplinary colloquium in which students share the results of the environmental research, internship or field course work they have undertaken as a requirement of the Environmental Studies minor. Ordinarily taken in the senior year. Prerequisite or co-requisite: field course, research course or internship course approved by the director. Offered spring semester.