Environmental and Resource Science Minor

Minor Requirements

Required Courses (18-19 credits)

Lower Division Requirements (9-10 Credits)

ENV 101	Introduction to Environmental Science	3.00
ENV 220/BIOL 220	Introduction to Ecological Principles	3.00

Choose one of the following:

GEOG 117	Meteorology/Climatology.	3.00
GEOL 101A	Exploring Planet Earth Lecture	3.00
GEOL 101L	Exploring 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 345	Environmental Regulations: History, Law, and Methods	3.00
ENV 480	Geographic Information System for Environmental Management	4.00
ENV 494/BIOL 494	Environmental Science Colloquium	1.00
GEOL 333	Principles of Geomorphology	4.00
GEOL 405	Geology of the National Parks	3.00
NRES 304	Principles of Hydrology	3.00
NRES 322	Soils	3.00
NRES 360	Environmental Instrumentation	4.00
NRES 467	Regional 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 305	Introduction to Conservation Biology	3.00
BIOL 319	Vertebrate Biology	4.00
BIOL 330	Plant Biology	3.00
BIOL 330L	Plant Biology Lab	1.00
BIOL 340	Urban Agriculture	4.00
BIOL 351A	Microbiology Lecture	3.00
BIOL 351L	Microbiology Lab	1.00
BIOL 408	Bioremediation	3.00
BIOL 419	Tropical Ecology	3.00
BIOL 433	Ornithology	4.00
BIOL 462	Microbial Ecology	3.00
BIOL 472	Limnology	3.00
BIOL 472L	Limnology Lab	1.00
NRES 432	Advanced Environmental Toxicology	3.00

Students must complete BIOL 330 with BIOL 330L.

Students must complete 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 190A, BIOL 190L, BIOL 191A, BIOL 191L, and MATH 126.