Environmental Studies Minor
David M. Dobson, Associate Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences
Environmental studies provides an interdisciplinary program that emphasizes the relationship between humans and the environment. It allows students to study and address a fundamental issue of our times – the quality of the Earth’s environment and the sustainable use of its natural resources. The program’s focus on justice, global awareness, service to the larger community and the concept of nature as sacred are in keeping with Guilford’s five academic principles and its Quaker heritage. For the purposes of the environmental studies program, courses of environmental relevance at Guilford have been divided between science courses, or environmental science, and non-science courses, or environmental policy and thought.
Minor Requirements
The minor requires a minimum of 20 credit hours (five courses); one course must be at the 300 level.
- ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies – 4 credits
- Two courses from: 8 credits
- BIOL 112 Integrative Biology: Organisms, Ecology, Evolution
- BIOL 212 Environmental Science
- BIOL 224 Field Botany
- BIOL 233 NC Freshwater Fishes
- BIOL 235 Vertebrate Field Zoology
- BIOL 334 Animal Behavior
- BIOL 336 Ornithology
- BIOL 438 General Ecology
- CHEM 105 Chemistry of Recycling
- CHEM 110 Real World Chemistry
- CHEM 111 Chemical Principles I
- ENVS 330/GEOL 230 Environmental Pollution
- GEOL 121 Geology and the Environment or GEOL 141 Oceanography
- GEOL 223 Hydrology
- GEOL 340 Images of the Earth: GIS and Remote Sensing
- GEOL 416 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- MATH 112 Elementary Statistics or ECON 301 Research Methods
- One course from: 4 credits
- ART 254 Sculpture and the Environment
- ECON 222 Micro: Public Policy
- ECON 344 Environmental and Resource Economics
- ENGL 225 American Literature Survey I
- ENVS/ART 220 The American Landscape
- HIST 227 Urban Environmental History
- PECS 246 Mediation and Conflict Intervention
- PHIL 242 Environmental Ethics
- PSCI 318 Environmentalism in Early America
- PSCI 319 Modern Environmental Problems
- PSY 344 Environmental Psychology
- REL 120/ENGL 228 American Nature Writing
- SOAN 322 Environmental Anthropology
- One course from: 4 credits
- IDS 437 Barrier Islands: Ecology & Development
- IDS 472 Environmental Planning
Total credit hours required for Environmental Studies Minor – 20 credits
Appropriate internships or independent studies with sufficient academic content and rigor may be substituted for a science or a non-science course, but must be approved in advance by the program coordinator.
