Environmental Science Minor

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

Minor Requirements (18 credits)

Required Courses (11 credits)

• ENV 202 Environmental science (4 credits)
• ENV 303 Ecology (4 credits)
• ENV 452 Environmental Laws and Regulations (3 credits)

*These courses meet general education requirements

Electives from the following list (7 credits)

• ENV 400 Plant Ecology (4 credits)
• ENV 401 Water Conservation and Management (3 credits)
• ENV 404 Stream Ecology (4 credits)
• ENV 406 Wildlife Ecology (4 credits)
• ENV 407 Invasion Ecology (3 credits)
• ENV 408 Principles of Wildlife Management (3 credits)
• ENV 419 Limnology (4 credits)
• ENV 424 Movement and Migration Ecology (3 credits)
• ENV 427 Animal Behavior (3 credits)
• ENV 430 Ornithology (4 credits)
• ENV 435 Northern Wetlands (3 credits)
• ENV 436 Water Quality Analysis (4 credits)
• ENV 438 Ecological Data Analysis in R (3 credits)
• ENV 439 Conservation Ecology (3 credits)
• ENV 440 Herpetology (4 credits)
• ENV 444 Plant and Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits)
• ENV 446 Wetland Ecology (4 credits)
• ENV 447 Wetland Delineation (3 credits)
• ENV 448 Restoration Ecology (3 credits)
• ENV 457 Marine Biology-Bahamas (3 credits)
• ENV 459 Mammalogy (4 credits)
• ENV 464 Aquaculture (3 credits)
• ENV 466 Great Lakes Issues (3 credits)
• ENV 476 Animal Ecophysiology (3 credits)
• ENV 477 Field Biology (4 credits)
• ENV 484 Fisheries Science and Management (4 credits)
• ENV 486 Fish Biology (3 credits)
• ENV 497 Undergraduate Internship (1 to 3 credits)*
• ENV 498 Collaborative Environmental Biology Research (1 to 3 credits)*
• ENV 499 Independent Study in Environmental Science (1 to 3 credits)

* Note: Can apply up to 3 credits from these courses combined toward the 7 elective credits

Total Credits (18 Credits)

Additional Requirements

Minimum grade of C- in ENV 202 and ENV 303