IMPORTANT NOTE: This list identifies courses which are always applicable to the minor. Our quarterly lists also include petitionable courses: new courses or topics courses which may be used to satisfy Environmental Studies minor requirements only during the quarters in which they appear on quarterly lists. Upon completion, petitionable courses must be petitioned into the minor. See the program advisor for details.

Environmental Studies Course Descriptions (pdf)

+ Instructor's approval required for enrollment.

ANTHROPOLOGY (ANSC) 160 - Nature, Culture, Environmentalism
ANTHROPOLOGY (ANAR) 182 - Origins of Agriculture and Sedentism

COMMUNICATION CUL 148 - Communication and the Environment

ECONOMICS 131 - Economics of the Environment
ECONOMICS 132 - Energy Economics
ECONOMICS 145 - Economics of Ocean Resources

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 102 - Selected Topics in Environmental Studies (when non-science-based)
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 110 - Environmental Law
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 140 - Wilderness and Human Values

ETHNIC STUDIES 103 - Environmental Racism

HISTORY SC 105 - History of Environmentalism
HISTORY US 154 - Western Environmental History

+ IRPS GN 458 - International Environmental Policy
+ IRPS GN 459 - Conflict Resolution of Environmental Issues

PHILOSOPHY 148 - Philospohy and the Envionment
PHILOSOPHY 164 - Technology and Human Values

POLITICAL SCIENCE 162 - Environmental Policy

SOCIOLOGY C 149 - Sociology of the Environment

URBAN STUDIES/PLANNING 2 - Urban World System
URBAN STUDIES/PLANNING 124 - Land Use Planning
URBAN STUDIES/PLANNING 144 - Environmental and Preventive Health Issues
URBAN STUDIES/PLANNING 171 - Sustainable Development