MINOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Seventeen hours with minimum grades of C or better in the following classes:

ENSC 1000, 1000L (4 hours)
BIOL 2800 (4 hours)
A minimum of 9 hours of 3000/4000 level courses from the following list. Independent study, internships, or research credits are not acceptable. Courses that are included in a student's major curriculum cannot be used toward the environmental science minor. For example, biology majors must select their upper division courses from approved upper level CHEM, ENSC, GEOG, GEOL courses.

ENSC/BIOL 4260 Environmental Toxicology

BIOL 4460 General Entomology

BIOL 4490 Phycology

BIOL 4470 Herpetology

BIOL/ENSC 4480 Ichthyology

BIOL 4500 Invertebrate Zoology

BIOL 4530 Mammalogy

BIOL 4610 Vertebrate Zoology

BIOL/ENSC 4710 Biogeography

BIOL 4725 Community and Ecosystem Ecology

BIOL/ENSC 4740 Environmental Conservation

BIOL 4750 Environmental Microbiology

BIOL/ENSC 4760 Plant Systematics

BIOL/ENSC 4770 Field Ornithology

BIOL/ENSC 4780 Freshwater Biology

BIOL/ENSC 4860 Vertebrate Field Techniques

BIOL 4870 Wildlife Management

CHEM 3400 /3400L Environmental Chemistry

ECON 3680 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

ENSC/GEOL 4600 Soils & Environmental Quality

ENSC/GEOG 4120 Natural Hazards

ENSC/GEOG 4130 Wetlands Environments

ENSC 4950 – Special topics

GEOG 3100 Introduction to Geographic Information

GEOG 4100 Advanced Geographic Information

GEOG 4112 Advanced Weather & Climate

GEOG/ENSC 4400 Resource Use

GEOG/ENSC 4450 Environment & Society

GEOL 4100 Introductory Hydrology

GEOL 4200 General Geomorphology

GEOL 4300 Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

GEOL 4950- Special topics

Please note that some of these courses have prerequisites that are not part of the ENSC minor.