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Sub-plan 4. Environmental Science

Writing Studies course required for this sub-plan:

WRIT 3404:  Environmental Communication, 3 cr (will fulfill major elective)

Choose 15 credits from the following courses:

Courses

Credits

Prerequisite

AGRO 3203W or ANSC 3203W: Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen

3

Biol 1009 or equiv

AGRO 5321 or ENT 5321: Ecology of Agricultural Systems

3

[3xxx or above] course in [Agro or AnSc or Ent or Hort or PlPa or Soil]

ANTH 3041: Ecological Anthropology

3

1003 or #

ANTH 4069: Environmental Archaeology

3

1001, 3001 or grad

APEC 3611: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

3

1101 or Econ 1101

ARCH 4561: Architecture and Ecology

3

None

BBE 4733:  Renewable Energy Technologies

3

4013 or equiv or #

BIOL 3407 or BIOL 3408W: Ecology

3

[One semester college biology], [MATH 1142 or MATH 1271 or MATH 1281 or equiv]

CE 3501: Environmental Engineering

3

Chem 1022, Phys 1302

CHEN 5551: Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies

3

Upper div or #], basic knowledge of chemistry, thermodynamics

ECON 3611: Environmental Economics

3

1101, 1102, or equiv; not open to Econ majors

EEB 3001: Ecology and Society

3

[Jr or sr] recommended; biological sciences students may not apply cr toward major

ESPM 1011: Issues in the Environment

3

None

ESPM 2041: Natural Resources Consumption and Sustainability

3

None

ESPM 3011W: Ethics and Natural Resources

3

None

ESPM 3241W: Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: History, Creation, and Implementation

3

None

ESPM 3251: Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development

3

None

ESPM 3261: Economics and Natural Resources Management

4

None

ESPM 3601: Our Home, Our Environment

3

None

ESPM 3603: Environmental Life Cycle Analysis

3

None

ESPM 3604: Environmental Management Systems and Strategy

3

None

FW 4102: Principles of Conservation Biology

3

Biol 1009 or equiv; Biol 3407 recommended

FW 5455: Sustainable Aquaculture

3

[Intro biology, intro chemistry] or #

GEO 1001: The Earth and Its Environments

4

None

GEO 1002: Earth History

4

None

GEO 3002: Climate Change and Human History

3

None; no credit if taken 5102

GEO 3003: Geohazards

3

None

GEO 3004: Water and Society

3

None

GEO 3005: Earth Resources

3

None

GEOG 3355: Environmental Quality

3

none

GEOG 3379 or GLOS 3303: Environment and Development in the Third World

3

Soph or jr or sr

GEOG 3401: Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change

4

None

HIST 3452: African Conservation Histories

3

None

HORT 4072: Growing Plants Organically: What It Means To Be Green

3

#

HSCI 3244: History of Ecology and Environmentalism

3

None

LA 3501: Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context

3

None

PHIL 3301: Environmental Ethics

4

None

SOC 4305: Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict

3

Soc 1001, or environmental course

SOC 4311: Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature

3

None

URBS 3751: Understanding the Urban Environment

3

None

SUST 3003/GLOS 3304: Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet

3

Soph or jr or sr