Environmental Studies Minor

The minor on Environmental Studies consists of a minimum of 20 credit hours, as follows:

Course Requirements

Foundation Courses

Introduction to Environmental Studies

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
ENST 200	Environmental Studies	4	Fall, Spring.

The Natural Environment

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
	ONE COURSE from:
BIOL 100	Fundamental Concepts of Biology	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
CHEM 105	General, Organic and Biological Chemistry I	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
PSCI 212	Introduction to Geology	4	Fall, Summer.
PSCI 214	Introduction to Meteorology	4	Fall.
PSCI 217	Introduction to Oceanography	4	Spring.

The Human Environment

CHOOSE ONE COURSE that cannot be counted in your major from:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
ANTH 101	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	4	Fall, Spring.
ANTH 102	Introduction to Archaeology	4	Fall, Spring.
ANTH 214	Indigenous Cultures in the Amazonian Environment	4	Alternate years.
COMM 240	Mass Media and Society	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
ECON 200	Introduction to Economics	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
ECON 214	Principles of Microeconomics	3	Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIST 328	History of the American West	4	As needed.
HIST 358	Environmental History	4	Annually.
GEOG 100	Introduction to Environmental Geography	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
GEOG 201	Mapping Our Changing World	4	Fall, Spring.
GEOG 301	Natural Resource Management	4	As needed.
PHIL 325	Environmental Ethics	3	Spring.
POL 202	American Government	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
POL 203	Global Politics	4	Fall, Spring.
SOC 200	Society and Social Behavior	4	Fall, Spring.
SOC 204	Urban Sociology	4	As needed.
SUST 200	Introduction to Sustainability	4	Annually.

Depth Courses

CHOOSE TWO COURSES from:

Course	Title	Credits	Offered
ANTH 301/ENST 301	Ethnobotany	4	Alternate years.
ANTH 307	Human Nature: Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior	4	Fall, Spring.
ANTH 325	Cultures and Environments in South American	4	Alternate years.
ANTH 334	Steamships and Cyberspace: Technology, Culture, Society	4	Alternate years.
ANTH 338	Urban Anthropology	4	Alternate years.
ANTH 343	Environmental Anthropology	4	Alternate years.
ANTH 347	Environmental Justice	4	Alternate years.
ECON 331	Topics in Global Economics	4	Annually (even years).
ECON 337	Economics of Climate Change and Sustainability	4	Annually (odd years).
ENGL 315	Literature, Environment and Ecocriticism	4	Annually.
ENST 301/ANTH 301	Ethnobotany	4	Alternate years.
GEOG 202	Geographic Information Systems I	4	Spring.
GEOG 206	Disaster Management	4	Fall, Spring.
GEOG 301	Natural Resource Management	4	As needed.
GEOG 307	Coastal Geography	4	As needed.
GEOG 338	People, Houses, Neighborhoods, and Cities	3	As needed.
HIST 357	Public History	4	Annually.
INGO 300	International Nongovernmental Organizations	4	Fall.
INGO 301	Applied Development Studies	3	Spring.
PHIL 320	Philosophy of Science	3	Spring (odd years).
POL 300	Methodology in Political Science	4	Fall, Spring.
POL 301	Foundations of Public Administration	4	Fall.
POL 341	The Politics of Developing Nations	3	As needed.
POL 342	The Politics of Global Economic Change	4	Every third semester.
POL 345	International Nongovernmental Organizations	4	Fall.
POL 355	Policy Formation Process	4	Spring.
PSCI 340	Field Methods in Geology	3	As needed.
SOC 302	Social Research Methods	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
SOC 404	Social Data Analysis	4	Fall, Spring, Summer.
XXX 350*	Topics Course	3-4

Total Credit Hours: 20