Requirements
Minor Requirements
The Environmental Studies minor consists of 21 semester hours. Both foundation courses are lower division, and the Capstone seminar is an upper division course. The four distribution courses may include one lower division course. Thus, the program allows for up to 9 semester hours of lower division work; the remaining 12 semester hours must come from upper division course offerings.
1. Foundations Courses: EVST 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies (3 semester hours) and NTLS 101: Introduction to Natural Science (3 semester hours)
2. Distribution Courses:
3. Capstone Course: EVST 401: Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar (3 semester hours)
Course Offerings
All courses are 3 semester hours.
I. Foundations Courses
EVST 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies
NTLS 101 Introduction to Natural Science
II. Humanities Distribution
PHIL 325 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 343 Environmental Philosophy
THST 387 World Religions and Ecology
THST 398 Special Studies [only if taught as Sacred Place]
III. Social Science Distribution
ECON 416 Environmental Economics
GEOG 100 Human Geography
SOCL 371 Social Ecology
URBN 345 Urban Planning
IV. Natural Science Distribution
BIOL 318 Principles of Ecology
ENVS 300 Engineering Geology
ENVS 320 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
NTLS 250 The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science
NTLS 272 Technology and the Environment
NTLS 298 Special Studies [only when taught as Principles of Sustainability]
NTLS 301 Environmental Science
NTLS 310 Oceanography
NTLS 320 Science, Theology, and the Future
V. Capstone Course
EVST 401 Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar