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Environmental Science Minor


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Core Requirements (3 units) for Environmental Science minor:

  1. ENVS 110 Introduction to Environment & Sustainability  
  2. ENVS 111 Introduction to Earth Science  
  3. ENVS 112 Ecology and the Human Future  

One (1) natural science / quantitative unit from:

  1. BIOL 122 Organisms and Their Environment  (+lab)
  2. CHEM 110 General Chemistry I  (+lab) or CHEM 230 Environmental Chemistry  
  3. MATH 105 Basic Probability and Statistics  or MATH 230 Applied Statistics  or MATH 200 3 Biostatistics  or PSYC 210 Quantitative Methods  

Two (2) natural science/physical geography units, each from different disciplines:

  1. BIOL 252 Biodiversity of Flowering Plants  (+lab)
  2. BIOL 255 Tropical Biology  (+lab)
  3. BIOL 313 Entomology  (+lab)
  4. BIOL 341 Ornithology  (+lab)
  5. BIOL 344 Plant Communities and Ecosystems  (+lab)
  6. BIOL 345 Marine Biology  (+lab)
  7. BIOL 347 Population and Community Ecology  (+lab)
  8. BIOL 349 Island Biology  (+lab)
  9. BIOL 353 Conservation Biology  
  10. BIOL 355 Plant Responses to Global Change  (+lab, travel)
  11. CHEM 260 Organic Chemistry I  (+lab)
  12. CHEM 261 Organic Chemistry II  (+lab)
  13. CHEM 270 Analytical Chemistry  (+lab)
  14. ENVS 270 Soil Morphology  
  15. ENVS 490 Independent Study  
  16. GEOG 245 Weather & Climate  
  17. GEOG 353 Cartography and GIS  or GEOG 355 Geographic Information Systems  (Social Science Credit)
  18. GEOG 369 Remote Sensing of the Environment  (Social Science Credit)
  19. GEOG 375 Climate Change  (Social Science Credit) 
  20. MATH 200 2 Mathematical Models of Climate  
  21. MATH 280 Differential Equations  

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