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Who Should Minor in Environmental Studies?

This minor is ideal for anyone interested in environmental and sustainability issues, and anyone looking for careers in which they can make a difference at a historical moment when environmental and sustainability work matters profoundly. This minor will also help you to learn how environmental issues, knowledge and analytical skills fit into your career path.

The environmental studies minor is different from, yet complementary to, the existing environmental science and engineering (ESE) minor program, which is focused primarily on the sciences. That program’s strength is also a limitation for many 名媛直播 students. For example, students in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in environmental studies but cannot take the ESE minor because they don’t have the necessary science background; a similar situation adheres for majors in business, law and the health sciences—despite each of those fields needing people with deeper knowledge of environmental issues. The environmental studies minor enables students to get some of the science while pursuing humanistic, social science and policy-oriented dimensions in greater depth. These interdisciplinary perspectives would also benefit students in the ESE program who might choose to take this minor to enhance their existing program.

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The minor is designed for students in all majors because environmental studies are now relevant to every career field. With most organizations initiating sustainable practices, environmental and sustainability specialists—those with “green skills”—are sought by employers in such diverse areas as government, tourism, finance, science, healthcare, fashion, technology, manufacturing, construction and even food and beverage.  Cross-disciplinary professions include environmental consulting, environmental policy analysis, environmental law and sustainability management.

The minor is designed for you to explore how environmental issues relate to your major and to complementary fields, thereby helping to prepare you for a range of career and graduate study options.

Elective courses for the minor are grouped into three categories: human and social dimensions, natural and health sciences, and policy and decision making. These categories include courses from each of 名媛直播's three colleges. The electives also include courses containing global experiences, experiential learning and service learning. The minor contains enough courses from the liberal studies core so that a student would take at least two and potentially three or even four courses in the minor that satisfy core requirements (e.g. integrative, scientific reasoning, global citizenship, wellness).

A minor in environmental studies will consist of 15 hours. To complete the minor, students will:

1. Complete two foundational courses, one in philosophy and one in the sciences.
2. Complete three additional elective courses, one course from each category:
   1. Human and Social Dimensions: Philosophical, literary, artistic, cultural, historical, or ethnographic aspects of how humans envision, value and interact with the environment
   2. Natural and Health Sciences: The physical, chemical and biological elements of the environment, including humans
   3. Policy and Decision Making: The intersection of facts and values as applied to governance, and specifically to environmental problems and decision-making

For more information on the sequence of courses needed to complete the minor,