Coordinator: Bruce A. Wiggins
Email: wigginba@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-6196
Environmental Science Minor Website
Program Description
This minor is a cross disciplinary program that any student may elect. Students pursuing programs ranging from the physical, natural or social sciences to education, journalism or business could benefit from this broadly-based curriculum. The program draws from courses that focus on the application of scientific concepts and principles to the understanding of environmental problems and their solutions. The minor draws upon the expertise of faculty in the areas of biology, chemistry, geography, physics and integrated science and technology.
The environmental science minor:
- Provides a scientific background to those students interested in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability.
- Broadens the student's understanding of how sciences are linked to environmental questions.
- Complements any major by focusing on courses related to environmental issues.
Minor Requirements
The minimum requirement for a minor in environmental science is 24 credit hours taken from the four groups outlined below. Students wishing to complete more than one of the environmental minors (environmental management, environmental science and environmental studies) may receive dual credit for the capstone course (ENVT 400), but may not receive dual credit for any other courses that might be shared by the minors. Pre-approved study abroad and/or internship experiences may be substituted for one or more of the courses listed below.
No more than two courses from a single subject area can count toward the completion of the environmental science minor.
With the pre-approval of the environmental science minor coordinator, international studies, special topics courses, study abroad courses, and/or internship experiences with appropriate content may be counted toward the minor.
Courses
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| 3-4 |
| Quantitative Ecology and Evolution
and Quantitative Ecology and Evolution Laboratory | |
| Perspectives in Environmental Science [C3PP] | |
| Physical Geography (2, 2) | |
| Environment: Earth [C3NS] | |
| Physical Geology [C3NS] | |
| Earth Systems and Climate Change [C3NS] | |
| Environmental and Energy Sustainability [C3PP] | |
| Environmental Issues in Science and Technology (2,3) [C3PP] | |
| 3-4 |
| 15 |
| Marine Biology | |
| Environmental Microbiology | |
| Geology and Ecology of the Bahamas | |
| Forest Ecology | |
| Conservation Biology | |
| Population Ecology | |
| Microbial Ecology and Evolution | |
| Introduction to Biometrics | |
| Biological Applications of Geographic Information Systems | |
| Freshwater Ecology | |
| Environmental Chemistry | |
| Environmental Chemistry Field Camp | |
| Nuclear and Radiation Chemistry | |
| Principles of Sustainable Engineering | |
| Environmental Engineering | |
| Water Resources Engineering | |
| Environmental Systems Theory | |
| Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Cartography | |
| Earth Observation and Satellite Navigation Systems | |
| Environmental Issues | |
| Biogeography | |
| Cartography and Geospatial Visualization | |
| Digital Image Processing in Remote Sensing | |
| Sustainability: An Ecological Perspective | |
| Introduction to Oceanography [C3NS] | |
| Environmental Impact | |
| Mineral Resources and the Environment (2,2) | |
| Meteorology | |
| Environmental Soil Science (2, 2) | |
| Geochemistry of Natural Waters | |
| Earth Surface Processes (2, 2) | |
| Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography | |
| Engineering Geology (2, 2) | |
| Field Geophysics | |
| Hydrogeology (2, 2) | |
| Role of Energy in Modern Society | |
| Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Technology I | |
| Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Technology II | |
| Environmental Analysis and Modeling | |
| Environmental Remediation | |
| Environmental Hydrology | |
| Industrial Hygiene | |
| Industrial Ecology | |
| Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design | |
| Applied Linear Regression | |
| Applied Nonparametric Statistics | |
| Time Series Analysis | |
| Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis | |
| Energy and the Environment [C3PP] | |
| 15 |
| 3 |
| Environmental Economics | |
| Economics of Natural Resources | |
| Literature and the Environment | |
| The Environmental Imagination | |
| Environment, Nature and Society | |
| Environmental Ethics | |
| U.S. Environmental History | |
| Environmental Policy and Regulation | |
| Local Agriculture and Farm Internships | |
| Political Ecology | |
| Environmental Regulatory Policy and Politics | |
| Governance for Environmental Sustainability | |
| Environmental Communication and Advocacy | |
| Sociology of the Environment | |
| Rhetoric of Environmental Science and Technology | |
| 3 |
| ENVT 400 | Capstone Seminar in Environmental Problem Solving 1 | 3 |
| 3 |
| Total Credits | 24-25 |
