Environmental Studies Minor

Minor - Environmental Studies (Minor)

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2014-2015

Degree Specific Credits: 25

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Lower Core Courses

Rule: Must complete all of the following:

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Show Description ENSC 105N - Environmental Science
Offered autumn. Provides students with opportunities to use class knowledge to make a difference; helps students build all of the following: scientific literacy; skills in critical thinking, research and self-instruction; provides an understanding of the scientific basis of environmental issues, policies and laws; encourages habits of sustainable living, scientifically-informed, active participation in social decisions, and service to their community and to the earth.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 225 - Community & Enviornment
Offered autumn.  Same as SOCI 225.  Exploration of the ways that communities address their environmental concerns.  Introduction of relevant social science concepts.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 230H - Nature and Society
UM campus course offered spring. Explores the relationship between ideas about nature and the development of political and social ideas, institutions, and practices, primarily in western (Euro-American) society. Complements ethics offerings in philosophy aimed at environmental studies majors.
 3 Credits
9 Total Credits Required

Upper Division Electives

Rule: Complete the following subcategories of courses

16 Total Credits Required

Environmental Studies

Rule: Must complete 13 credits from the following

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Show Description ENSC 398 - Cooperative Education/Intern
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., six credits in EVST and consent of instr. Practical application of classroom learning through internship with governments, organizations or industry. A maximum of 6 credits of Internship (198, 298, 398, 498) may count toward graduation.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ENSC 491 - Special Topics/Exper Courses
(R-9) Offered intermittently. May be restricted to EVST majors. May require consent of instructor. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 9 Credits
Show Description ENSC 492 - Independent Study
(R-6) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq. consent of instructor. Course material appropriate to the needs and objectives of the individual student.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ENSC 495 - Field Study
Offered autumn. Prereq or coreq ENSC 360. Designing, executing, interpreting and documenting field studies. Project oriented.
 1 To 10 Credits
Show Description ENST 335L - The Environmental Vision
Offered autumn.  Provides background, overview, interpretations, and understanding of key concepts, themes, approaches, and forms in American nature and environmental nonfiction as well as that literature’s response to and influence on environmental events, figures, and movements.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 367 - Envr Politics & Policies
Offered autumn. Foundation in public lands history, bedrock environmental laws, policy processes and institutions.  Research and analysis of current environmental and natural resource policy issues.  Focus is domestic illustrated by case studies.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 373A - Nature Works
Offered spring. Writing workshop for the creation, critique, and revision of essays about the environment to include natural history, personal narrative, science interpretation, advocacy/editorial, place-based essay, and others.  Examination of concepts, forms, and approaches to writing about environmental concerns, awareness and sensitivity.  Reading and responding to published work, primarily from the perspective of technique and approach.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 377 - Rhetoric, Nature, Environ
Offered every other year. Same as COMX 347.  Not open to PCOM. Survey of rhetorical texts that shape public understanding of nature and environmental issues. Analysis of a range of historical and contemporary environmental texts using theoretical concepts from the rhetorical tradition.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 382 - Environmental Law
Offered spring.  Introduction to the history, law and theory of environmental regulation in the United States using public and private land regulation mechanisms as case studies.  Basic principles of constitutional and administrative law relevant to environmental regulation, substantive public and private land use law and the history of environmental problems and their regulation.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 391 - Special Topics/Exp Courses
(R-12) Offered intermittently. May be restricted to EVST majors. May require consent of instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 12 Credits
Show Description ENST 395 - Field Studies: Env. Studies
(R-12) Offered every term. Via extended backcountry travel, experiential examination of cultural history and public lands management, and how those affect ecosystem integrity. Investigation of personal roles in and relationships with human and ecological communities. Offered by the Wild Rockies Field Institute and Northwest Connections.
 2 To 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 396 - Supervised Internship (PEAS)
(R-10) Offered every term; Summer intensive, 6 cr. Students learn small scale sustainable vegetable farming in a hands-on work environment at the PEAS farm (15 minute bike ride from campus). Lectures, readings and reflection inform the work. Summer students also visit local farms on once-a-week field trips. PEAS is repeatable, as the curriculum changes across the season, and students can attend any semester, though the 6 credit summer intensive course is the heart of the program.
 0 To 10 Credits
Show Description ENST 398 - Cooperative Education/Intern
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., six credits in EVST and consent of instr. Practical application of classroom learning through internship with governments, organizations or industry.  A maximum of 6 credits of Internship (198, 298, 398, 498) may count toward graduation.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ENST 420 - US Environmental Movement
Offered Intermittently.  Study of the environmental movement as a social movement.  Examination of different approaches to environmental protection and restoration in view of the movement’s historical roots and contemporary debates. 
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 430 - Culture & Agriculture
Offered spring, from start of semester to mid-April.  Surveys treatment of farmers and farming in the humanities.  Course covers specific agricultural crops and their effect on social and environmental history, artistic commentary on agricultural life and farmer philosophy.  Themes range from agriculturally influenced historical events to Wendell Berry's poetry to Albert Borgmann's philosophy.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 476 - Environmental Citizenship
Offered spring. Prereq., open to juniors and seniors only or by consent of instructor. Same as CCS 485. Develops leadership and environmental citizenship skills, values and virtues through student-initiated projects informed by principles of organizing and sustainable behavior change theories of social marketing.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 480 - Food, Agriculture, Environment
Offered spring.  Exploration of the premise that agricultural sustainability requires practices, policies, and social arrangements that balance concerns of environmental soundness, economic viability, and social justice among all sectors of society.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 487 - Globalization, Justice & Envir
Offered autumn. Study of current trends in economic globalization and its effects on efforts to work for social justice and environmental sustainability, particularly in the Global South.  Examination of different models and theories of globalization, analysis of ethical issues raised, and assessment of alternatives proposed.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 489S - Env. Justice Iss & Solut
Offered autumn. Examination of evidence, causes and consequences of social inequality in the distribution of environmental risks and in access to natural resources and environmental amenities. Community, government and industry responses and service approaches for addressing environmental inequities.
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 491 - Special Topics/Exper Courses
(R-12) Offered intermittently. May be restricted to EVST majors. May require consent of instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
 1 To 12 Credits
Show Description ENST 492 - Independent Study
(R-6) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., consent of instructor. Course material appropriate to the needs and objectives of the individual student.
 1 To 6 Credits
Show Description ENST 493 - Study Abroad: Envir Justice LA
Offered summer.  Two week travel seminar to one or more Latin American countries to examine Latin American perspectives on environmental justice and efforts toward sustainable development within the context of the global economy and U. S. foreign policy.  Required one-credit seminar offered spring semester to provide background readings. 
 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 494 - Seminar/Workshop
(R-6) Offered intermittently. May be restricted to EVST majors. May require consent of instructor. A seminar on a current environmental topic.
 1 To 3 Credits
Show Description ENST 499 - Senior Thesis/Capstone
Offered intermittently. Prereq., senior standing in EVST. For seniors who want to design and perform a significant capstone project involving research and/or service. Students have responsibility for designing their projects which are subject to faculty approval. A final report and public presentation are required. Honors credit available.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 13 Total Credits Required

Ecology

Rule: Must complete 1 of the following

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Show Description BIOE 172N - Introductory Ecology
Offered autumn.  An introduction to ecological principles, stressing the structure and function of natural communities and examining human's role in these ecosystems.
 3 Credits
Show Description BIOE 370 - General Ecology
Offered autumn. Prereq., BIOB 272. Analysis of the distribution and abundance of plants and animals. Includes individual, population and community-level processes (e.g., population growth and regulation, competition, predation, succession, nutrient cycling, energy flow and community organization).
 3 Credits
Show Description ENSC 360 - Applied Ecology
Offered autumn. Prereq or coreq ENST 201. To succeed in this course, students also need college level courses in general biology, chemistry & statistics. Principles and concepts of ecology and how they can be applied to inform real life decisions about human interactions with the environment. Emphasizes the science of sustainability and the conservation of watersheds and biodiversity.
3 Credits
Show Description FORS 330 - Forest Ecology
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., FORS 210 or ENSC 245N or NRSM 210N; and BIOO 105N or BIOB 170N or BIOE 172 or BIOB 160N or FORS 240; and FORS 201 or STAT 216 or SOCI 202 or WILD 240 or PSYX 222. Examination of physical and biological factors affecting forest structure, composition, and function, including biodiversity, disturbance, and nutrient cycling. Field labs throughout Northern Rockies including developing skills in field observation, data interpretation and problem solving.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required