Environmental Studies Minor

Minor requirements

The minor in Environmental Studies requires a minimum of 5 credits. Of these

At least one must be at the 300-level or above
Students are required to complete an approved internship related to the environment

Course requirements

Humanities and Social Sciences (two or three of the following)

ANTH 101 - Human Evolution
ANTH 210 - Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food
ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America
CLAS 262 - The Ancient Landscape: From Mythology to Ecology or
CLAS 362 - The Ancient Landscape: From Mythology to Ecology
ECON 252 - Urban Economics
HIST 236 - U.S. Environmental History
ENV 210 - Water Resources Planning and Management * or
ENV 215 - Coastal and Ocean Policy Management * or
PHIL 111 - Ethics (Students must notify the instructor at the beginning of the course)
POLS 198 - Introduction to Public Policy
POLS 381 - Environmental Politics in the United States
REL 242 - Religion and Ecology
REL 357 - Indigenous Religions
SOC 200 - Social Movements
SOC 264 - Environmental Sociology
SOC 265 - Food and Society
SOC 295 - Globalization

Natural Sciences (two or three of the following)

BIO 111 - Evolution and Ecology
BIO 115 - Natural History of New England Forests
BIO 201 - Environmental Science
BIO 215 - Ecology
BIO 226 - Comparative Animal Behavior or
PSY 226 - Comparative Animal Behavior
BIO 231 - Marine Biology
BIO 252 - Parasitology and Symbiosis
BIO 261 - Economic Botany
BIO 290 - Biology of Whales *
BIO 291 - Introduction to Marine Mammals *
BIO 303 - Evolution
BIO 320 - Evolution of Invertebrates
BIO 364 - Freshwater and Marine Botany
BIO 375 - Ornithology
BIO 380 - Wetlands Ecology, Hydrology, Restoration *
BIO 390 - Biology of Fishes *
CHEM 103 - Chemistry and Your Environment
CHEM 105 - Earth, Wind and Fire: Science of the Earth System
CHEM 303 - Current Problems in Environmental Chemistry
PHYS 160 - Geology
PHYS 165 - Climate Change, Past and Present
PHYS 227 - Remote Sensing

Notes

*Offered through the Marine Studies Consortium

Internship

Students must complete an internship or independent research project with an environmental focus. Internships must be approved by the program coordinator in advance. Internships should be completed no later than January of the senior year. Independent research with a faculty member may receive credit, but other internships will not normally be given college credit.