The core course for the Environmental Studies Minor will be offered spring semester, 2009. It will be team taught with Dr. Kelly Smith in biology.

BSC 3057 - Introduction to Environmental Studies 3
This course represents the core foundation course for the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies minor. Topics cover a broad range of environmental issues in order to lay the foundation for the understanding of complex environmental issues and the interactions between human behavior, technology, and the natural environment. Course content provides an introduction to issues of biodiversity, appreciating human impact, principles of sustainability, biotechnology, resource conservation, legal and policy issues, ethics, and ecopsychology. (This course cannot be used by biology majors to satisfy degree requirements.)


Minor Requirements
(16 SEMESTER HOURS / 3000 - 4000 LEVEL)

Required Courses:
BSC 3057 3.0 Environmental Studies
PHI 3640 3.0 Environmental Ethics

Select two courses:
GEO 3370 3.0 Conservation of Natural Resources
GIS 3043 3.0 Intro to Geographical Information Systems
HIS 3403 3.0 Urban Environmental History
INR 3016 3.0 Global Issues in Contemporary Politics
PHM 2030 3.0 Ecological Philosophy
PUP 4506 3.0 Evolution, Society, and Politics (consent of instructor required)
Science majors select two natural sciences from: Non-science majors select two natural sciences from:
  BOT 2010 C 4.0 Botany
BOT 3712 C 4.0 Plant Systematics
BSC 1011 C 4.0 General Biology II
BSC 3052 3.0 Conservation Biology
BSC 3053 3.0 Health Effects of Env. Pollutants
BSC3263 3.0 Marine Biology
BSC 4054 3.0 Environmental Toxicology
CHS 4445 3.0 Environmental Chemistry
PCB 3043 C 4.0 Ecology
PCB 4301 C 4.0 Limnology
ZOO 4823 C 4.0 General Entomology		   BSC 1005 C 4.0 Principles of Biology
BSC 1930 2-4 Current Applications in Biology

Conditions for the minor:
1. Students may not duplicate courses to use in both the major and the minor.
2. Only two transfer courses will apply towards minor requirements.
3. A grade of “C” or better is required in all minor courses.
4. Students will be required to complete all prerequisites needed for individual minor courses.