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Minor in Environmental Inquiry

Pennsylvania State University Intercollege 134 courses

About This Program

This intercollege minor is designed for students across the disciplines who wish to prepare for addressing environmental issues or problems as professionals or citizens. The minor is available to all undergraduates regularly enrolled in a degree program at the University. The objectives are to allow students to gain the multiple perspectives necessary for understanding environmental issues as well as to increase skills in collaborating with those from very different disciplinary backgrounds to find acceptable solutions. Students will be challenged to move beyond the channels of thinking characteristic of their own discipline to new ways of knowing, new sensitivities, and new analytical approaches. The program will engage students actively in learning experiences outside their major course of study. This minor is intended not to replace existing minors but to be a true intercollege, interdisciplinary minor.

Degree Requirements

Additional Courses

Code Course Title Credits
AGECO 121 Plant Stress: It's Not Easy Being Green 3
ANTH 45N Cultural Diversity: A Global Perspective 3
BIOL 110 Biology: Basic Concepts and Biodiversity 4
BISC 3 Environmental Science 3
CED 152 Community Development Concepts and Practice 3
EARTH 2 The Earth System and Global Change 3
EARTH 100 Environment Earth 3
EARTH 101 Natural Disasters: Hollywood vs. Reality 3
EGEE 101 Energy and the Environment 3
EGEE 102 Energy Conservation for Environmental Protection 3
ENGL 180 Literature and the Natural World 3
ERM 210 Environmental Factors and Their Effect on Your Food Supply 3
FDSC 105 Food Facts and Fads 3
GEOG 30N Environment and Society in a Changing World 3
GEOSC 21 Earth and Life: Origin and Evolution 3
GEOSC 40 The Sea Around Us 3
HIST 151N Technology and Society in American History 3
HORT 101 Horticultural Science 3
HORT 150N Plants in the Human Context 3
MATSE 81 Materials in Today's World 3
PHIL 118 Environmental Philosophy 3
SOC 23 Population and Policy Issues 3
SOILS 71 Environmental Sustainability 3
SOILS 101 Introductory Soil Science 3
WFS 209N Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation 3
BIOL 419 Ecological and Environmental Problem Solving 3
BIOL 461 Contemporary Issues in Science and Medicine 3
CED 410 The Global Seminar 3
ERM 430 Air Pollution Impacts to Terrestrial Ecosystems 3
GEOG 412W Climatic Change and Variability 3
GEOG 430 Human Use of Environment 3
GEOSC 451 Natural Resources: Origins, Economics and Environmental Impact 3
NUTR 497 Special Topics 1-9
SOC 422 World Population Diversity 3
SOILS 422 Natural Resources Conservation and Community Sustainability 4
STS 420 Energy and Modern Society 3
WFS 430 Conservation Biology 3

Program Courses

Code Course Title Credits
BIOL 127 Introduction to Plant Biology 3
BIOL 220W Biology: Populations and Communities 4
BIOL 417 Invertebrate Zoology 4
BIOL 435 Ecology of Lakes and Streams 3-4
BIOL 448 Ecology of Plant Reproduction 3
BIOL 482 Coastal Biology 3
BIOL 499A Tropical Field Ecology 3
CE 370 Introduction to Environmental Engineering 3
CHEM 20 Environmental Chemistry 3
CHEM 301 Environmental Chemistry and Analysis 3
CHEM 402 Environment Chemistry: Atmosphere 3
FOR 308 Forest Ecology 3
FOR 401 Urban Forest Management 3
FORT 100 Introduction to Forestry 1
GEOG 314 Biogeography and Global Ecology 3
GEOG 310 Introduction to Global Climatic Systems 3
GEOSC 21 Earth and Life: Origin and Evolution 3
HORT 101 Horticultural Science 3
LARCH 245 Ecology & Plants II 3
METEO 451 Introduction to Physical Oceanography 3
PPEM 120 The Fungal Jungle: A Mycological Safari From Truffles to Slime Molds 3
SOILS 101 Introductory Soil Science 3
SOILS 412W Soil Ecology 3
STS 201 Climate Change, Energy, and Biodiversity 3
WFS 430 Conservation Biology 3
CED 152 Community Development Concepts and Practice 3
CED 230 Development Issues in the Global Context 3
CED 309 Land Economics and Policy 3
CED 410 The Global Seminar 3
CED 201 Introductory Environmental and Resource Economics 3
CED 429 Natural Resource Economics 3
EARTH 101 Natural Disasters: Hollywood vs. Reality 3
ECON 428 Environmental Economics 3
ERM 411 Legal Aspects of Resource Management 3
GEOG 124 Elements of Cultural Geography 3
GEOG 438W Human Dimensions of Global Warming 3
GEOSC 109H Earthquakes and Society 3
GEOSC 310 Earth History 4
GEOSC 402Y Natural Disasters 3
HIST 453 American Environmental History 3
NUTR 497 Special Topics 1-9
PHIL 132 Bioethics 3
RSOC 11 Intro Rural Sociology 3
SOC 423 Social Demography 3
SOC 450 Justice and the Environment 3
SOILS 71 Environmental Sustainability 3
STS 420 Energy and Modern Society 3
AG 160 Introduction into Ethics and Issues in Agriculture 3
BIOL 419 Ecological and Environmental Problem Solving 3
BIOL 461 Contemporary Issues in Science and Medicine 3
CED 450 International Development, Renewable Resources, and the Environment 3
ENGL 430 The American Renaissance 3
GEOG 434 Politics of the Environment 3
HIST 110 Introduction to Global Environmental History 3
HIST 428 The Darwinian Revolution 3
LARCH 60 Cultural History of Designed Places 3
PHIL 403 Seminar in Environmental Ethics 3
STS 100 Science, Technology, and Culture 3
STS 101 Modern Science, Technology, and Human values 3
ASM 327 Soil and Water Resource Management 3
BE 307 Principles of Soil and Water Engineering 3
CE 371 Water and Wastewater Treatment 3
CE 461 Water-resource Engineering 3
CE 475 Water Quality Chemistry 4
EMSC 440 Science Diving 4
ENVE 411 Water Supply and Pollution Control 3
ENVE 415 Hydrology 3
ERM 450 Wetland Science and Sustainability 3
FOR 470 Watershed Management 3
GEOG 431 Geography of Water Resources 3
GEOSC 40 The Sea Around Us 3
GEOSC 440 Marine Geology 3
GEOSC 452 Hydrogeology 3
PLANT 217 Landscape Soil and Water Management 3
WFS 422 Ecology of Fishes 3
WFS 435 Limnology 3
ANTH 45N Cultural Diversity: A Global Perspective 3
ARCH 316 Analysis of Human Settlements: Cities 3
CED 409 Land Use Planning and Procedure 3
COMM 408 Cultural Foundations of Communications 3
COMM 411 Cultural Aspects of the Mass Media 3
ENGL 402 Literature and Society 3
GEOG 20 Human Geography: An Introduction 3
GEOG 333 Human Dimensions of Natural Hazards 3
LARCH 65 Built Environment and Culture: Examining the Modern City 3
METEO 4 Weather and Risk 3
TURF 425 Turfgrass Cultural Systems 3
WFS 450 Wetland Science and Sustainability 3
EGEE 101 Energy and the Environment 3
EGEE 102 Energy Conservation for Environmental Protection 3
EGEE 401 Energy in a Changing World 3
EGEE 464W Energy Design Project 3
GEOSC 451 Natural Resources: Origins, Economics and Environmental Impact 3
MATSE 81 Materials in Today's World 3

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