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2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog: Environmental Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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The Minor in Environmental Sciences is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences that is designed for students pursuing any UNC Charlotte degree who are interested in careers related to studying or managing the environment.
MINOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
To obtain a Minor in Environmental Sciences, students must complete 18 credit hours (3 required credits and 15 elective credits) offered from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and the Department of Biology. Participating students have some flexibility in choosing elective courses that reflect their specific area of interest within the environmental field. If students are Geography and Earth Sciences or Biology majors, they must take at least 9 of the 15 elective credits outside of their major. Prerequisites are required for most of the elective classes (notably GEOL 1200 and lab, ESCI 1101 and lab, BIOL 2120, and BIOL 2130 and lab). Classes that are required for a student’s major cannot be counted toward the minor as well, but electives taken for a major can also be counted for the minor. Students must have and maintain a GPA of at least 2.75 to participate in the program.
REQUIRED COURSE (3 hours)
- ESCI 2101 Environmental Dilemma (3)
ELECTIVES (15 hours)
Geography and Earth Sciences
- ESCI 3105 Oceanography (3)
- ESCI 3170 Environmental Quality Management (3)
- ECSI 3180 Environmental Impact Analysis (3)
- ESCI 4140 Hydrological Processes (4)
- ESCI 4155 Fluvial Processes (4)
- ESCI 4170 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (4)
- ESCI 4210 Soil Science (4)
- ESCI 4222 Watershed Science (3)
- ESCI 4233 Geoenvironmental Site Characterization (4)
- GEOG 2103 Elements of GIScience and Technologies (4)
- GEOG 3215 Environmental Planning (3) (W)
- GEOG 3250 World Food Problems (3)
- GEOG 4040 Transportation Planning (3)
- GEOG 4120 Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (4)
- GEOG 4131 Environmental Modeling with GIS (4)
- GEOL 3120 Geochemistry (3)
- GEOL 3190 Environmental Geology (3)
- GEOL 4145 Fundamentals of Hydrogeology (4) (W)
- GEOL 4185 Mineralogy, Economics, and the Environment (3)
- METR 4150 Applied Climatology (3) (W)
- METR 4240 Boundary-Layer Meteorology (3)
Biology
- BIOL 3144 Ecology (3)
- BIOL 3202 Horticulture (3) (W)
- BIOL 3222 General Botany (4)
- BIOL 3229 Field Botany (3)
- BIOL 3231 Invertebrate Zoology (4)
- BIOL 3233 Vertebrate Zoology (4)
- BIOL 3235 Biology of Insects (3)
- BIOL 3236 General Zoology (3)
- BIOL 4111 Evolution (3)
- BIOL 4162 Advanced Biotechnology I (3) (W)
- BIOL 4235 Mammalogy (4)
- BIOL 4242 The Biology of Birds (3)
- BIOL 4243 Animal Behavior (3)
- BIOL 4253 Marine Microbiology (4)
