Minor in Environmental Studies
Requirements for the minor:
Choose one introductory course:
- ENVS 1000: Environmental Issues
- ENVS 1100: Environmental Science
Choose one of the field courses listed below, or complete an internship course or research course approved by the Director:
- BIOL 3210: Ecology of the Galapagos Islands
- BIOL 3220: Biogeography of the American Southwest
- BIOL 3230: Field Arachnology
- ENVS 2000: Applied Sustainability
- GEOL 3500-3503: Field Study in Geology
- GEOL 3510: Field Geology I: The Greater Yellowstone Geoecosystem
- GEOL 3520: Field Geology I: Earthquakes and Volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest
- GEOL 3530: Field Geology I: Folded Rocks – Crossing the Appalachians
- GEOL 4500: Field Geology II: Southwest Montana
- BIOL 1720: Galápagos Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
- BIOL 1740: Field Biology for Non-Science Majors
- SOAN 3100: Summer in China
- SOAN 3410: Archaeological Field School
- RIST 3150: Religion, Science, and Nature
Choose two of the humanities and social sciences courses listed below:
- ECON 1000: Principles of Economics
- HIST 3710: Environment, Technology and Power
- PHIL 2120: Environmental Ethics
- PLSC 1000: American Government
- PLSC 3500: American Public Policy
- SOAN 1100: Introduction to Anthropology
- SOAN 1110: Introduction to Archaeology
- SOAN 2410: Human Ecology
Choose two of the natural sciences courses listed below:
- BIOL 1010: General Botany with Lab
- BIOL 1730: Explore the Natural World
- BIOL 2200: Ecology
- BIOL 3200: Aquatic Biology
- BIOL 3310: Ornithology
- BIOL 3320: Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods
- BIOL 3350: Conservation Biology
- BIOL 3370: Herpetology with Lab
- BIOL 3380: Wetland Ecology with Lab
- 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 1200: Geosystems
- GEOL 1300: Human and Natural Disasters
- GEOL 2000: Plate Tectonics and Earth History
- GEOL 2100: Hydrology and Chemistry of Natural Waters
- GEOL 3300: Applied Geophysics
- GEOL 4300: Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Complete this course:
- ENVS 4911: Environmental Studies Seminar