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Minor in Environmental Studies

Texas Tech University College of Arts & Sciences 53 courses

About This Program

The College of Arts & Sciences offers an interdisciplinary minor in Environmental Studies. This minor is nontechnical in nature and specifically designed for students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree. It focuses on the interaction of humans and the natural environment and the consequences of that interaction. The minor does not train professional environmentalists but will, in combination with existing major programs, give students a broad foundation as preparation for more advanced environmental studiesprograms; professional work in law, regional planning, or resource management; and various environmental positions in government, business, or teaching. The minor also will provide students with a better understanding of basic ecology and the nature of environmental problems in order to make more knowledgeable value judgments on environmental issues. The following general rules pertain to the Environmental Studies minor program: 1. Students minoring in Environmental Studies must complete at least 18 semester hours (6 courses) to be chosen from the courses listed. 2. Because this is an interdisciplinary program, students may not count more than two courses from any one department or discipline toward the minor. 3. Students must take at least two upper-division (junior and senior rank) courses. For this reason, the basic introductory prerequisite courses are included in most instances. 4. Students are strongly discouraged fromcounting courses in their major departmenttoward...

Degree Requirements

Electives in the program include:

Code Course Title Credits
AAEC 4309 Sustaining Global Ecology, Natural Resources and Economy 3
ARCH 1311 Design, Environment, and Society 3
ATMO 1300 Introduction to Atmospheric Science 3
BIOL 1305 Ecology and Environmental Problems 3
BIOL 1401 Biology of Plants 4
BIOL 1402 Biology of Animals 4
BIOL 3307 Population Biology 3
BIOL 3309 Principles of Ecology 3
BIOL 4393 Tropical Marine Biology 3
ECO 3336 Environmental Economics 3
ECO 3335 Energy Economics 3
ENGL 2310 Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment 3
ENTX 3300 Biological Effects of Chemicals in the Environment 3
ENTX 3301 Introduction to Ecotoxicology 3
EVHM 1302 Introductory Fieldcraft: Nature as Text 3
EVHM 2302 The Literature of Place 3
EVHM 3300 Research Methods: Writing the Natural World 3
EVHM 3305 Ecology 3
EVHM 3306 Course Readings in Natural History 3
EVHM 3350 Advanced Fieldcraft: Nature as Text 3
GEOG 1401 Global Environmental Science 4
GEOG 3310 Environmental Change 3
GEOG 3353 Environmental Sustainability 3
GEOG 3355 Environmental Hazards and Disasters 3
GEOG 3360 Technology and the Human Landscape 3
GEOG 4301 Geomorphology in Environmental Management 3
GEOG 4321 Biogeography 3
GEOG 4357 Geography of Arid Lands 3
GEOL 1303 Our Planet Earth: Principles of Geology 3
GEOL 1350 History of Life 3
GEOL 3322 Oceanography 3
GEOL 3323 Environmental Geology 3
GEOL 3328 Geology of Energy Resources 3
GIST 3300 Geographic Information Systems 3
GIST 3301 Remote Sensing of the Environment 3
HIST 3327 Earth, Wind, and Fire: Nature and History in America 3
HIST 4323 Nature and Americans 3
HLTH 2302 Environmental Health and Awareness 3
LARC 2302 History of Landscape Architecture 3
LARC 4351 Environmental Planning for Sustainable Development 3
NRM 1300 Environmental Science as a Social Pursuit 3
NRM 1401 Introduction to Natural Resources Management 4
NRM 2305 Introduction to Freshwater Ecology and Fisheries 3
NRM 2307 Genetics and Natural Resource Management 3
NRM 3302 Range Plant Ecology 3
NRM 3307 Principles of Conservation Science 3
PHIL 3325 Environmental Ethics 3
PUAD 3329 Environmental Politics and Policy 3
SOC 3355 Global Food Issues: On Bread and Water 3
SOC 4312 Human Societies, Health and Environment 3
RE 1300 Introduction to Renewable Energy 3
RE 2300 Social Impacts of Renewable Energy 3
RE 3315 Renewable Energy and the Environment 3

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