Minor in Environmental Studies

The Minor in Environmental Studies requires 20 units, 12 units of required courses and 8 units of electives.

Required Courses (12 units):

• ENVA - 109 Humans and Environmental Change
• ENVS - 110 Understanding Our Environment w/Lab AND EITHER
• ENVS - 210 Ecology and Human Impacts w/Lab OR
• ENVS - 212 Air and Water w/Lab

Electives (8 units):

Social Science

• ECON - 230 Environmental Economics
• POLS - 356 The Vatican in Global Politics
• POLS - 360 International Environmental Politics
• POLS - 366 Environmental Policy
• ENVA - 319 Health and Environment
• ENVA - 320 Global Environments and Societies
• SOC - 360 Urbanization and Development
• ARCD - 130 Community Based Urban Agriculture: Design and Management (Freshmen only, Garden Project LLC; also may substitute for ENVA 109)

Humanities:

• ENVA - 361 Religion and the Environment
• ENGL - 235 Literature and the Environment
• ENVA - 404 Environmental Ethics
• HIST - 342 Environmental History of Africa
• HIST - 341 Feast and Famine: A History of Food
• THRS - 195 Freshman Seminar
• ARCD - 140 Garden as Art: History, Design & Implementation (Freshmen only, Garden Project LLC)

Environmental Science:

• ENVA - 250 Environmental Data Analysis
• ENVS - 312 Water Resource Analysis w/Lab
• ENVS - 320 Restoration Ecology w/Lab
• ENVS - 321 Wetland Ecology w/Lab
• ENVS - 331 Environmental Health -- A Toxicological Perspective
• ENVS - 350 Energy and Environment
• ENVS - 360 Climate Change: Science and Policy
• ENVS - 390 Undergraduate Special Topics

Environmental Studies Methods and Practice

• ENVA - 396 Environmental Studies Internship
• ENVS - 410 Methods of Environmental Monitoring w/Lab
• ENVS - 498 Advanced Undergraduate Research
• POLS - 396 Public Administration Internship *
• POLS - 397 Fieldwork in Public Interest Organizations *
• SOC - 308 Research Methods *
• SOC - 395 Fieldwork in Sociology *

*Internship/placement or research project must have an environmental component.