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Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, Minor

2021-2022 Edition

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        • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BS
        • Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, BS
        • Environmental Studies, BA
        • Marine Biology, BS
        • Computer Science and Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, BS
        • Data Science and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BS
        • Data Science and Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, BS
        • Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Chemistry, BS
        • Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Economics, BS
        • Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Landscape Architecture, BS
        • Environmental Studies and History, BA
        • Environmental Studies and International Affairs, BA
        • Environmental Studies and Philosophy, BA
        • Environmental Studies and Political Science, BA
        • Sociology and Environmental Studies, BA
        • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Minor
        • Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, Minor
        • Environmental Studies, Minor
        • Geosciences, Minor
        • Marine Sciences, Minor
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The environmental and sustainability sciences minor provides undergraduates with a strong foundation in a variety of scientific, technical, institutional, economic, behavioral, and conservation-oriented solutions to environmental problems caused by either natural phenomena and/or human activity.

There are a number of interdisciplinary opportunities involving environmental and sustainability sciences.  Due to curricular overlap, combinations of any environmental and sustainability sciences major, including combined majors, cannot occur with majors or minors in ecology and evolutionary biology, environmental studies, or with the minor in geoscience.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.

Coursework

Course List
Code Title Hours
Foundational Classes
Complete two of the following: 8-9
ENVR 1200
and ENVR 1201
Dynamic Earth
and Lab for ENVR 1200
or ENVR 2200
Earth's Changing Cycles
ENVR 1400
and ENVR 1401
Foundations in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
and Lab for ENVR 1400
EEMB 2302
and EEMB 2303
Ecology
and Lab for EEMB 2302
ENVR 2515
Sustainable Development
Advanced Coursework
Complete four courses from this list (at least three courses need to be at the 3000 level or above):16-19
EEMB 1450
Introduction to Marine Biology
EEMB 2302
and EEMB 2303
Ecology
and Lab for EEMB 2302
EEMB 2400
Introduction to Evolution
EEMB 3460
Conservation Biology
EEMB 3465
Ecological and Conservation Genomics
EEMB 4001
Landscape and Restoration Ecology
ENVR 1110
Global Climate Change
ENVR 1200
and ENVR 1201
Dynamic Earth
and Lab for ENVR 1200
ENVR 2200
Earth's Changing Cycles
ENVR 2310
and ENVR 2311
Earth Materials
and Lab for ENVR 2310
ENVR 3125
Global Oceanic Change
ENVR 3150
Food Security and Sustainability
ENVR 3151
Food Sustainability in the Mediterranean - Abroad
ENVR 3200
Water Resources
ENVR 3600
Oceanography
ENVR 5210
Environmental Planning
ENVR 5350
Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions
POLS 2395
Environmental Politics and Policy
PPUA 5260
Ecological Economics
PPUA 5268
International Environmental Policy
SOCL 2485
Environment, Technology, and Society

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor

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