Environmental Studies: Requirements

General Requirements for the Minor

General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) five units of the minor be taken in residence at Puget Sound; 2) students earn a GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the minor; and 3) all courses taken for a minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the minor degree requirements listed below.

Requirements for the Minor

  • ENVR 105, Environmental Science; or two courses chosen from BIOL 111, 112, CHEM 110, GEOL 101, 104, or 105 may substitute for this requirement where the two courses come from different sciences
  • ENVR 110, Environment and Society
  • ENVR 400, Senior Seminar in Environmental Policy and Decision Making

Policy Electives

One unit selected from the following policy courses.

  • CONN 381, Environmental Law
  • ECON 325, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • ENVR 310, Environmental Decision Making
  • ENVR 322, Water Policy
  • ENVR 333, Forest Policy in the Pacific Northwest
  • PG 305, U.S. Environmental Policy
  • PG 309, Applied Environmental Politics and Agenda Setting

General Electives

Two additional units selected either from the policy courses above or the following general elective courses. At least one of the courses used to fulfill this requirement must be outside the student's major program. The courses used to fulfill this requirement may not count towards the requirements for both the minor and a major. Students should contact the specific department to determine when a course will be offered. Students may also use one unit of independent study or internship (ENVR 495/496 or 497/498).

  • BIOL 211, General Ecology
  • BIOL 377, Field Botany
  • BIOL 378, Vertebrate Biology
  • BIOL 477, Marine Biology
  • CHEM 345, Chemistry and Physics of Atmospheres
  • COMM 368, Organizational Communication Systems
  • CSOC 213, Urban Sociology
  • CSOC 230, Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies
  • CSOC 316B, Social and Cultural Change
  • CSOC 323, Tourism and the Global Order
  • CSOC 407, Political Ecology
  • ENGL 380, Literature and the Environment
  • ENVR 301, Global Environmental Change
  • ENVR 325, Geological and Environmental Catastrophes
  • ENVR 335, Thinking about Biodiversity
  • ENVR 340, Salmon Recovery in the Pacific Northwest
  • GEOL 303, Geomorphology
  • GEOL 310, Water Resources
  • GEOL 320, Environmental Geochemistry
  • GEOL 321, Regional Environmental Geology
  • GEOL 330, Regional Field Geology
  • HIST 364, American Environmental History
  • HIST 369, History of the West and the Pacific Northwest
  • STS 344, History of Ecology
  • STS 341, Modeling the Earth's Climate
 
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