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COURSES FOR MINOR

1. Introductory 3-credit course

2. Choose nine credits from ONE of the seven cluster options (A-G)

A. Biodiversity and Ecosystems

B. Environment and Society

C. Environmental Explorations

D. Ideas About the Environment

E. Water Resources

F. Human Settlements

G. Energy Resources

3. Select one additional (3 credit) environmentally related course

4. Take a 3 credit final course

Step 2: Cluster A—Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Take nine credits from the courses listed below.

Course substitions are encouraged! Course Substitution Form

BIOL 127 Introduction to Plant Biology
BIOL 220W Biology: Populations and Communities
BIOL 417 Invertebrate Zoology
BIOL 435 Ecology and Lakes and Streams
BIOL 448 Ecology of Plant Reproduction
BIOL 482 Coastal Biology
BIOL 499A Tropical Field Ecology
CHEM 20 Environmental Chemistry (Commonwealth Campuses ONLY)
CHEM 301 Environmental Chemistry and Analysis (Commonwealth Campuses ONLY)
CHEM 402 Chemistry in the Environment
C E 370 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
ENT 202 The Insect Connection
FORT 100 Introduction to Forestry
FOR 308 Forest Ecology
FOR 401 Urban Forest Management
GEOG 110 Climates of the World
GEOG 111 Biogeography and Global Ecology
GEOG 123 Geography of the Developing World
GEOG 310W Introduction to Global Climatic Systems
GEOSC 21 Earth and Live: Origin and Evolution
HORT 101 Horticultural Science
INTAG 100 Introduction to International Agricuture
LARCH 341 Plants, People and Place: Plants in Landscape Architectural Design
METEO 451 Introduction to Physical Oceanogrphy
PPATH 120 The Fungal Jungle: A Mycological Safari from Truffles to Slime Molds
SOILS 101 Introduction to Soils
SOILS 412W Soil Ecology
S T S 201 Climate Change, Energy, and Biodiversity
S T S/BIOL/PPATH 424 Seeds of Change: The Uses of Plants
W F S/FOR 430 Conservation Biology