Description
The Environmental Science minor (18 credits) prepares the student for postgraduate education or employment in environmentally related fields (e.g., environmental health and safety, government policy-making, non-governmental organizations). To ensure maximum breadth and depth of training, the schedule of elective courses for the minor in environmental science must be in science disciplines other than the student’s own major and be formally developed with the department chairperson.
What can I do with an environmental science minor?
Admission to the Program
The Environmental Science minor is designed for science majors but any undergraduate student can declare the Environmental Science minor. Non-science majors should consider the minor in Environmental Studies.
Program Requirements for the Minor in Environmental Science (11 credits)
- ENV 202 Environmental science (4credits)*
- ENV 303 Ecology (4 credits)*
- ENV 452 Environmental Laws and Regulations (4 credits)
*These courses meet general education requirements
Electives from the following list: 7 credits
- ENV 400 Plant Ecology (4 credits)
- ENV 404 Stream Ecology (4 credits)
- ENV 406 Wildlife Ecology (4 credits)
- ENV 407 Invasion Ecology (3 credits)
- ENV 419 Limnology (4 credits)
- ENV 424 Movement and Migration Ecology (3 credits)
- ENV427 Animal Behavior (3 credits)
- ENV 430 Ornithology (4 credits)
- ENV435 Northern Wetlands (3 credits)
- ENV438 Ecological Data Analysis in R (3 credits)
- ENV 439 Conservation Ecology (3 credits)
- ENV 440 Herpetology (4 credits)
- ENV446 Wetland Ecology (4 credits)
- ENV 447 Wetland Delineation (3 credits)
- ENV 448 Restoration Ecology (3 credits)
- ENV457 Marine Biology-Bahamas (3 credits)
- ENV 459 Mammalogy (4 credits)
- ENV464 Aquaculture (3 credits)
- ENV466 Great Lakes Issues (3 credits)
- ENV476 Animal Ecophysiology (3 credits)
- ENV 477 Field Biology (4 credits)
- ENV 483 Aquatic Invertebrates (4 credits)
- ENV 484 Fisheries Science and Management (4 credits)
- ENV486 Fish Biology (3 credits)
Total credits: 18
Additional Requirements:
Minimum grade of C- in ENV 202 and ENV 303