Environmental Studies Minor

The Environmental Studies Minor is a 16-hour interdisciplinary program compatible with any major. It offers students an integrated overview of environmental and natural resource fields.

Required Courses:

ECON 200 - Microeconomic Principles
ECON 320 - Natural Resource Economics
BIOL 250 - Ecology and
BIOL 251 - Ecology Lab (prerequisite: BIOL 120 or BIOL 162)
BIOL 398 - SEM: Environmental Studies or BIOL 397 - SEM: Air and Water Pollution or BIOL 396 - SEM: Climate Change
One approved non science elective

Approved Non-Science Electives

(The below list is a sample of offerings. Please use the “Attribute Type” when searching the Schedule of Classes to find other approved courses).

ECON 421 - Environment, Economics and Policy
ENGL 205 - Lit. & Moral Imagination: Literature & the Environment (Specific environmental sections must be approved)
ENGL 348 - Literature & the Environment
ENGL 363 Ecocriticism
HIST 123 - African History I
HIST 171 - US Environmental History
HIST 398 - History of Agriculture
HIST 399 - Green Urbanism
HIST 400 - History of Agriculture
HIST 436 - Urban Ecologies and Economics
PHIL 200 - Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy and Ecology Konopka only
PHIL 387 - Topics in Contemporary Philosophy Konopka only
PHIL 392 - Philosophy of Nature
POLI/HIST 316 - Globalization
SOCI 240 - Population and Globalization
SUST 301 - Cultural Studies and Sustainability
SUST 465 - Topics in Sustainability: Renewable Energy and Economies Bertaux only
THEO 245 - God Creation and Ecology
THEO 332 - Sacred Ground and New Story/Cosmology
THEO 360 - Consumption as a Problem
THEO 388 - Theology and Ecology
THEO 396 - Native American Lifeways

Note(s):

A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in all these courses.
Information regarding the minor can be obtained from the co-directors, whose names are noted in each semester’s schedule of classes.