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Minor in Environmental Studies (18 hours)

Study a range of environmental issues from multidisciplinary perspectives, including climate change, animal management, environmental justice, sustainable development, literature and environment, and eco-tourism.

At least two courses in Philosophy

  • PHIL 2500 Environment and Society
  • PHIL 3475 Philosophy of Climate Change
  • PHIL 3660 Religion and the Environment
  • PHIL 3850 Philosophy of Animals
  • PHIL 3900 Philosophy of Food
  • PHIL 4053 Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation
  • PHIL 4054 Tracing Darwin's Path
  • PHIL 4200 Science, Technology, and Society
  • PHIL 4450 Philosophy of Ecology
  • PHIL 4650 Philosophy of Water
  • PHIL 4700 Environmental Philosophy
  • PHIL 4740 Environmental Justice

No more than four Interdisciplinary courses

  • ANTH 4400 Environmental Anthropology
  • BIOL 1132 Environmental Science
  • BIOL 1142 Microbes and Society
  • BIOL 2140 Principles of Biology
  • BIOL 2251 Biodiversity and Conservation of Animals
  • BIOL 3160 Conservation Biology
  • BIOL 3170 Plants and Human Society
  • EADP 2030 Climate Change Resilience
  • EADP 4015 Flood Plain Management
  • ECON 4440 Economics of Natural Resources and Environment
  • ENGL 4650 Literature and the Environment
  • GEOG 1710 Earth Science
  • GEOG 2170 Culture, Environment, and Society
  • GEOG 2180 Geosystems, Environment and Society
  • GEOG 3200 Sustainability
  • GEOG 3800 Weather and Climate
  • GEOG 4250 Climatology
  • GEOG 4260 Oceanography
  • GEOG 4420 Capitalism, Nature, and Climate Change
  • GEOL 1610 Introduction to Geology
  • GEOL 3010 Environmental Geology
  • GEOL 3020 Historical Geology
  • GEOL 3030 Earthquakes and Volcanoes
  • HIST 4275 American Environmental History
  • HIST 4276 Animal Histories
  • HLTH 1570 Environmental Health and Safety
  • HLTH 4350 Environmental Community Health
  • HMGT 2810 Introduction to International Sustainable Tourism
  • HMGT 2850 Introduction to Agritourism
  • PUBH 3025 Environmental Health
  • SOCI 4170 Environmental Sociology
  • WGST 4250 Gender and Sustainable Development

Any courses not listed above must be approved by the Department of Philosophy and Religion undergraduate advisor.