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Olin Rice 249
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-696-6274
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Preapproved Disciplinary Cores
Anthropology
- ANTH 101 – General Anthropology or ANTH 111 – Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 365 – Environmental Anthropology
- 4 Elective courses in ANTH (those students interested in Biological Anthropology must take ANTH 112 – Archaeology and Human Evolution or ANTH 115 - Biological Anthropology)
- Methods: ANTH 230 - Ethnographic Interviewing
Biology
- BIOL 170 - Biodiversity and Evolution
- BIOL 260 - Genetics OR BIOL 265 - Cell Biology
- BIOL/ENVI 285 - Ecology
- CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I
- 2 Elective Biology Courses
- Methods: MATH 153 Data Analysis and Statistics OR MATH 155 Introduction to Statistical Modeling
Chemistry
- CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I and CHEM 112 - General Chemistry II or CHEM 115 - Accelerated General Chemistry
- CHEM 211 - Organic Chemistry I and CHEM 212 - Organic Chemistry II
- CHEM 222 - Analytical Chemistry
- One or two elective courses (depending on Intro Series)
- Methods: Math 135 - Applied Calculus or Phys 226 - Principles of Physics I
Economics
- ECON 119 - Principles of Economics
- ECON/ENVI 231 - Environmental Economics and Policy
- 4 Other ECON courses
- Methods: MATH 153 Data Analysis and Statistics or MATH 155 Introduction to Statistical Modeling
Educational Studies
- EDUC/PSYC 220 - Educational Psychology
- EDUC 260 - Philosophy of Education
- EDUC 360 - Education & Emerging Technologies
- EDUC 370 - Education & the Challenge of Globalization
- EDUC 460 - Education & Social Change (fulfills Methodology requirement)
- Plus one of the following:
- ENVI/PHIL 229 - Environmental Ethics
- ENVI/HIST 237 - Environmental Justice
- Plus one of the following:
- ENVI/POLI 215 - Environmental Politics & Policy
- ENVI/POLI 235 - Citizen Science: Environment, Technology & Development
- ENVI/HIST 236 - Consumer Nation
- ENVI/HIST 343 - Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment
- ENVI/INST 368 - Sustainable Development & Global Future
The above will also fulfill requirements for a minor in Educational Studies. The added course to complete an Educational Studies major will be EDUC 624 - Internship or Independent Study in Environmental Education.
Geography
- GEOG 111 - Human Geography of Global Issues
- GEOG 232 - People and the Environment
- GEOG 294 - Geography of Environmental Hazards or ENVI 252 - Water and Power
- One Regional Geography Course (Geography of Africa/Geography of Latin America/Geography of US and Canada/Geography of the Middle East/Geography of Oceania)
- One 200 or 300 level geography course, e.g.: Medical Geography, Urban Geography, Urban Social Geography, Advanced GIS, Discipline and methods, Urban GIS, World Urbanization, Feminist Geography)
- GEOG/ENVI 477 - Comparative Environment and Development Studies (ES 477)
- Methods: GEOG 225 - Intro to GIS
Geology
A total of 6 courses in the Geology Department must be taken to complete a core in Geology. These courses should be selected after discussion with a faculty member in the Geology Department. There is no single required course, but we expect at least three courses will be at or above the 200-level. Note: A Geology minor is five (5) courses, with GEOL150 and GEOL155 required.
No more than THREE courses can be taken at the 100-level.
Recommended courses:
- GEOL 100 – Oceanography
- GEOL/ENVI 120 - Environmental Geology
- GEOL 150 - Dynamic Earth and Global Change
- GEOL 155 - History and Evolution of the Earth
At least THREE courses at the 200+ level.
Recommended courses:
- GEOL 260 - Geomorphology
- GEOL 394 - Surface and Groundwater Hydrology
- GEOL 265 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- GEOL 294 - Field Methods
- GEOL 300 - Paleobiology
- GEOL XXX - January Field Excursions
Methods: MATH 135 - Applied Calculus
History
- At least 4 of the 7 required courses should be cross-listed between history and ES (or otherwise have a clear environmental focus).
- Methods - Any of Prof. Chris Wells’ 300-level courses or HIST 379 - The Study of History
Philosophy
- PHIL 229 - Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 125 – Ethics
- Any 4 of the following:
- PHIL 115 - Problems of Philosophy
- PHIL 227 – Bioethics
- PHIL 394 - Ecofeminism Seminar
- PHIL 360 - Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 394 - (Topics course) Philosophy of Biology
- PHIL 488 - (Topics course) Darwin and Evolution
- PHIL 614 - (Independent Project)
- Methods: PHIL 119 - Critical Thinking
Political Science
First three required:
- POLI 215 - Environmental Politics and Policy
- POLI 335 - Science and Citizenship
- POLI 269 - Empirical Research Methods
Four courses from this list depending on the student’s interest in domestic or international issues (others may be applicable):
- POLI 100 - US Politics
- POLI 202 - Political Participation
- POLI 140 - Comparative Politics
- POLI 221 - Global Governance
- POLI 242 - Development Politics
- POLI 341 - Comparative Social Movements
- POLI 320 - Global Political Economy
- POLI 390 - Chuck Green Fellowship (highly recommended)
Physics
- PHYS 130 - Science of Renewable Energy
- PHYS 226 - Principles of Physics I
- PHYS 227 - Principles of Physics II
- PHYS 331 - Modern Physics
- 2 Elective Courses above 300 level
- Methods: PHYS 348 - Laboratory Instrumentation
Religious Studies
Any six of the following (students must focus major projects in theses courses on environmental issues):
- RELI 120 - Hebrew Bible
- RELI 125 - Love and Death
- RELI 127 - Religions of India
- RELI 194 - Ritual
- RELI 194 - How to Do Things with Dead People
- RELI 194 - The Sacred, the Sword, and the Market Place
- RELI 244 - 16th Century European Dissent, Reform and Expansion
- RELI 246 - Contemporary Christian Thought and Practice
- RELI xxx - Religious Ritual and Land Use in Southeast Asia
- RELI xxx - The End of the World (as we know it)
Methods (one of the following):
- RELI 235 - Intro to Theory and Method in Religion
- RELI 469 - Approaches to the Study of Religion
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