Environmental Science Minor

The requirements for a minor in environmental science include a total of six courses. Of these, three are required and three are selected from clusters of approved courses. These six courses introduce students to the program’s three tracks: Earth Systems Science (ESS), Environmental and Conservation Biology (ECB), and Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P).

The following three courses are required:

BIOL 103 Principles of Environmental and Conservation Biology
EN 101 Sustainability Science: Environment, Society, and Technology
GEOG 104 Earth Systems Science

In addition, students must take three additional courses, one from each of the three tracks:

One additional Earth Systems Science (ESS) course is required. The ESS course must be selected from the categories of introductory or advanced ESS courses (not skills or Human-Environment courses) as listed on the ESS track on the course requirements page.

One additional Environmental and Conservation Biology (ECB) course from among the following three courses:

BIOL 105 Evolution
BIOL 118 Genetics
BIOL 216 Ecology

One additional Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) course from the following list of courses taught by one of the core ES&P faculty:

EN 120 Discovering Environmental Science
EN 207 Climate Change, Energy and Development
EN 241 Environmental Toxicology
EN 261 Decision Methods for Environmental Management and Policy
EN 277 Sustainable Consumption and Production
EN 282 Management of Environmental Pollutants