Environmental Studies minor

Office: 220 Houghton Hall

[phone]

Sherri A. Mason, Coordinator

Email: [e-mail]

Website: http://www.fredonia.edu/department/interdisciplinary/

 

Requirements for the Interdisciplinary Studies minor in Environmental Studies

(20 credit hours)

 

Required Core Courses (12 credit hours)

Students will take at least one class from each of the four areas:

 

Natural Science:

BIOL 115	Environmental Biology	3
	or
CHEM 113	Chemistry and the Environment	3

Historical Contexts:

HIST 310	World Environmental History	3
	or
HIST 352	Environmental History of North America	3

Social Science:

POLI 387	Environmental Policy	3
	or
ECON 380	Environmental/Natural Resource Economics	3

Humanities:

COMM 321	Environmental Communication	3
	or
ENGL 333	Environmental Literature	3
	or
ENGL 399	Special Topics	1-4

Additional Requirements

Students will take at least two courses from two different disciplines, selected from the following list (or from the previous list of required core courses):

ANTH 350	Special Topics	1-3
BIOL 421	Biological Conservation	3
BIOL 426	Current Environmental Topics	3
CHEM 107	Chemistry for Consumers	3
ECON 340	Urban and Regional Economics	3
ENGL 374	Writing and Social Change	3
ENGL 399	Special Topics	1-4
ESCI 105	Global Environmental Issues	3
GEO 359	Vanishing Earth Resources	3
HIST 353	U.S. Consumer Culture	3
POLI 240	Urbanization and Environmental Challenges	3
SOC 215	Introduction to Public Health	3
SOC 303	Social Class and Inequality	3

Other Courses as Advised

Capstone (2 credits)

 

ESCI 440	Environmental Sciences Seminar	1
ESCI 441	Environmental Sciences Senior Seminar	1

* Many of the upper level core and elective courses have prerequisites;  students are responsible for knowing which prerequisites they need to take and should plan carefully as they complete this minor.

* No more than six credits from a student’s major or other minors may be counted toward the Environmental Studies minor.