Environmental and Resource Science Minor

Minor Requirements

Required Courses (18-19 credits)

Lower Division Requirements (9-10 Credits)

ENV 101Introduction to Environmental Science

3.00

ENV 220/BIOL 220Introduction to Ecological Principles

3.00

Choose one of the following:
GEOG 117Meteorology/Climatology.

3.00

GEOL 101AExploring Planet Earth Lecture

3.00

GEOL 101LExploring Planet Earth Laboratory

1.00

Students must take GEOL 101A with GEOL 101L

Upper Division Requirements - Group A (6 Credits)

Students must take 6 credits selected from the following courses.
ENV 345Environmental Regulations: History, Law, and Methods

3.00

ENV 480Geographic Information System for Environmental Management

4.00

ENV 494/BIOL 494Environmental Science Colloquium

1.00

GEOL 333Principles of Geomorphology

4.00

GEOL 405Geology of the National Parks

3.00

NRES 304Principles of Hydrology

3.00

NRES 322Soils

3.00

NRES 360Environmental Instrumentation

4.00

NRES 467Regional and Global Issues in Environmental Sciences

3.00

Upper Division Requirements - Group B (3 Credits)

Students must take 3 credits selected from the following courses:
BIOL 305Introduction to Conservation Biology

3.00

BIOL 319Vertebrate Biology

4.00

BIOL 330Plant Biology

3.00

BIOL 330LPlant Biology Lab

1.00

BIOL 340Urban Agriculture

4.00

BIOL 351Microbiology

4.00

BIOL 351AMicrobiology Lecture

3.00

BIOL 351LMicrobiology Lab

1.00

BIOL 408Bioremediation

3.00

BIOL 419Tropical Ecology

3.00

BIOL 433Ornithology

4.00

BIOL 462Microbial Ecology

3.00

BIOL 472Limnology

3.00

BIOL 472LLimnology Lab

1.00

NRES 432Advanced Environmental Toxicology

3.00

Students must complete BIOL 330 with BIOL 330L.

Students must complete BIOL 351 or BIOL 351A with BIOL 351L.

Students must complete BIOL 472 with BIOL 472L.

 

Pre-requisites for this minor (11 Credits for non-STEM & Human Health Sciences Majors): BIOL 190 (or BIOL 190A and 190L), BIOL 191 (or BIOL 191A and BIOL 191L), and MATH 126.