Minor in Environmental Studies
Contact Person:
Stacy Rosenberg, Department of Politics & Environmental Studies Program
249 MacVicar, (315) 267-2963, rosenbsr@potsdam.edu
20-24 semesters hours required.
Designed primarily for social sciences and humanities majors. Some of the following courses have cognate requirements, so the student
should check the individual course listing under its department for these prerequisites. A grade of 2.0 or better must be achieved in all courses.
All courses are 3 credits unless noted. Credits are divided as follows:
| Credits | ||
| Sciences | 9-10 | |
| Three of the following, each from a different department: | ||
| BIOL 111 | Adirondack Ecology | |
| BIOL 148 |
Biodiversity Conservation |
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| BIOL 209 |
Winter Ecology |
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| BIOL 300 |
Ecology (3-4) |
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| BIOL 312 |
Insect Ecology (4) |
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| BIOL 350 |
Biotic Communities of South Florida |
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| CHEM 301 | Fundamentals of Environmental Science | |
| CHEM 395 |
Sustainable Manufacturing |
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| GEOL 101 | Environmental Geology | |
| GEOL 103 | Physical Geology | |
| GEOL 106 | Geology of Our National Parks | |
| GEOL 407 |
Geophysics |
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| PHYS 325 | Energy and the Environment | |
| PHYS 330 | Meteorology |
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| And other courses to be listed. |
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| Social Sciences and Humanities | 9-10 | |
| ENVR 110 |
Introduction to Environmental Studies |
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Two of the following, each from a different department: |
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| ECON 320 | Economy and the Environment |
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| ENVR 395 |
Environmental Issues |
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| HLTH 300 | Environmental Health |
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| HIST 395 |
African Environmental History |
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| HIST 453 | Nature in American History | |
| HIST 454 |
Energy in American History |
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| LITR 351 |
Nature and Literature |
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| PHIL 330 |
Environmental Ethics |
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| POLS 324 |
Natural Resource Policy (4) |
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| POLS 344 | Global Climate Change (4) |
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| POLS 355 |
Politics and the Environment (4) |
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| POLS 395 | Water Policy (4) |
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| SOCI 340 |
Environment and Society |
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| And other courses to be listed. | ||
Skills |
2-4 |
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| One from the following: | ||
| COMP 304 |
Technical Writing, Prereq: COMP 201 (4) |
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| GEOL 340 |
Geographic Information Systems (4) | |
| WILD 170 |
Rock Climbing (2) |
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| WILD 175 |
Ice Climbing (2) |
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| WILD 240 | Backpacking (2) | |