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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:

 

  • one to two Environmental Science courses (A list), and

  • 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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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