ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MINOR + FACULTY
Students are required to take at least 18 semester hours (9 advanced), a minimum of 6 courses. Contact us to ensure proper advisement and course substitutions.
You must complete:
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one to two Environmental Science courses (A list), and
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four to five Environmental Studies courses (B and C lists).
A. Environmental Science Courses:
GEOL 1401 Physical Geology - also meets Core requirement
CHEM 1301 & 1101 General Chemistry & Lab – also meets Core requirement
BIOL 2406 Environmental Biology
ENSC 3400 Environmental Science & Policy (prerequisites: 2 core courses in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or Geology)
ENSC 3401 Environmental Regulations and Environmental Impact Analysis (prerequisite: ENSC 3400)
GEOL 4302 Environmental Geology (prerequisite: GEOL 1401)
B. Environmental Studies Courses:
ENST 1301 Intro to Environmental Studies
PHIL 2395 Environmental Ethics, also meets Core requirement
HIST 3303 Geography and Environment
ENG 3320 Topics in English: Environmental Literature
ENSC 3300 Environmental Ethics
ENSC 3301 Environmental Approaches to Sustainable Development
SOCI 4370 Environmental Sociology
PHIL 3373 Religion and the Environment
POLS 3319 Environmental Policy
HIST 3365 American Environmental History
ANTH 4314 Environmental Anthropology
CRIJ 4316 Environmental Crime and Justice
ELEE 4373 Renewable Energy (prerequisites: ELEE 2302 & ELEE 3307)
MECE 4360 Solar Energy (MECE prerequisistes)
MGMT 4362 Business & Sustainability
A student could substitute one of the following (but not both) for an environmental studies course:
ENST 4380 Environmental Studies Directed Research
ENST 4390 Environmental Studies Internship
C. Additional Courses and Course Sections with an Environmental Focus (these need to be substituted in to count toward the minor):
ENG 1302 Rhetoric & Composition (sections taught by S. Herweck) - also meets Core requirement
SOCW 3333 ST: The Natural Environment & Human Well-Being (C. Faver)
PUBA 4363 Politics of Scarcity and Ecology (A. Zemrani)
PUBA 4363 Government and Economy (A. Zemrani)
Environmental communications
Environmental art
Environmental health
What the environmental studies minor requires
Coming soon
ENST faculty
Lynn Vincentnathan (ES chair, anthropology, criminal justice)
Erik Anderson (philosophy)
George Atisa (public administration)
Amy Cummins (English)
William Donner (sociology)
Marianita Escamilla (English)
Catherine Faver (social work)
Olga Gerhart (philosophy)
James Gleason (political science)
Amy Hay (history)
Stefanie Herweck (English)
Stephen Leach (philosophy)
Owen Temby (political science)
Aziza Zemrani (public administration)