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 C—Environmental Explorations

In this cluster option, you must take 3 credits each of social science, natural science, and the arts and humanities courses from the lists below. Select one course from each section.

Course substitions are encouraged! Course Substitution Form

Social Science Course Options:

AG EC/E RRE 201	Introductory Environmental and Resource Economics
AG EC/E RRE 429	Natural Resource Economics
AG EC/E RRE 431W	Economic Analysis of Environmental and Resource Policies
ANTH 40	Biocultural Evolution
ANTH 146	North American Indians
ANTH 152	Hunters and Gatherers
ANTH 451	Economic Anthropology
ANTH 456	Cultural Ecology
CED 410	The Global Seminar
ECON 428	Environmental Economics
FD SC/PHIL 280H	Food, Values, and Health
GEOG 020	Human Geography: An Introduction
GEOG 333	Human Dimensions of Natural Hazards
GEOG 430	Human Use of the Environment
GEOSC 451	Natural Resources: Origins, Economics, and Environmental Impact
LARCH 65	Built Environment and Culture
NUTR/S T S 497G	Community Food Security
PL SC 412	International Political Economy
PL SC 420	Policy Making and Evaluation
R SOC/AGECO 134	Sustainable Agriculture Science and Policy
S T S/NUTR 430	Global Food Strategies: Problems and Prospects for Reducing World Hunger
SOC 422	World Population Diversity
TURF 425	Turfgrass Cultural Systems

Natural Science Course Options:

BIOL 220W	Biology: Populations and Communities
BIOL/GEOSC 427	Evolution
BIOL 435	Ecology of Lakes and Streams
BIOL 436	Population Ecology and Global Climate Change
BIOL 444	Field Ecology of the Central Appalachian Highlands
BIOL 446	Physiological Ecology
BIOL 450W	Field Biology
BIOL 461	Contemporary Issues in Science and Medicine
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
EM SC 121	Minerals and Modern Society
EARTH 106	The African Continent: Earthquakes, Tectonics, and Geology
ERM 300	Basic Principles and Calculations in Environmental Analysis
FOR 308	Forest Ecology
GEOG 110	Climates of the World
GEOG 115	World Landforms
GEOSC 10	Geology of the National Parks
GEOSC 20	Planet Earth
GEOSC 303	Introduction to Environmental Geology
GEOSC 320	Geology of Climate Change
GEOSC 340	Geomorphology
METEO 4	Weather and Risk
MNG 400	Mining and our Environment
PPATH 120	The Fungal Jungle: A Mycological Safari from Truffles to Slime Molds
R SOC/AGECO 134	Sustainable Agriculture Science and Policy
W F S 408	Mammalogy
W F S/FOR 430	Conservation Biology

Arts and Humanities Course Options:

AM ST 50	The Literature and Lore of Mining
CED 410	The Global Seminar
COMM/S T S 408	Cultural Foundations of Communications
COMM 411	Cultural Aspects of the Mass Media
COMM 459	Cultural Effects of Interactive and Online Media
EM SC/S T S 150	Out of the Fiery Furnace
ENGL 88	Australian/New Zealand Cultural Perspectives
ENGL 233	Chemistry and Literature
ENGL 402	Literature and Society
ENGL 404	Mapping Identity, Difference, and Place
ENGL 430	The American Renaissance
FD SC/PHIL 280H	Food, Values, and Health
GEOG 434	Politics of the Environment
GEOSC 310	Earth History
HIST/S T S 428	The Darwinian Revolution
HIST 453	American Environmental History
LARCH 60	History of Landscape Architecture
PHIL 13	Philosophy, Nature, and the Environment
PHIL 132	Introduction to Bioethics
PHIL 403	Environmental Ethics
R SOC/AGECO 134	Sustainable Agriculture Science and Policy
SOC 449	Environmental Movements
W F S 440	Natural Resource Public Relations

*Where topic is appropriate and with ENV_I program approval.