Environmental Studies Minor

Department 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.

1. ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies							4 credits
2-3. Two courses from:							8 credits

BIOL 112 Integrative Biology: Organisms, Ecology, Evolution
BIOL 115 General Botany
BIOL 212 Environmental Science
BIOL 224 Field Botany
BIOL 235 Vertebrate Field Zoology
BIOL 242/GEOL 242 Natural Science Seminars
BIOL 333 Ichthyology
BIOL 334 Animal Behavior
BIOL 336 Ornithology
BIOL 438 General Ecology
CHEM 105 Chemistry of Recycling
CHEM 111 Chemical Principles I
ENVS 330/GEOL 230 Environmental Pollution
GEOL 121 Geology and the Environment
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

4. One course from:							4 credits

ART 254 Sculpture and the Environment
ECON 222 Micro: Public Policy
ECON 301 Research Methods
ECON 344/IDS 458 Environmental and Resource Economics
ENGL 225 American Literature Survey I
PHIL 242 Environmental Ethics
PSCI 318 Environmentalism in Early America
PSCI 319 Modern Environmental Problems
PSY 344/IDS 441 Environmental Psychology
REL 120/ENGL 228 American Nature Writing
SOAN 225 Culture and the Environment
SOAN/PECS 246 Mediation and Conflict Intervention

5. One course from:							4 credits

IDS 404 Antarctica
IDS 418 Science, Sex and Nature
IDS 437 Barrier Islands: Ecology & Development
IDS 441/PSY 344 Environmental Psychology
IDS 458/ECON 344 Environmental & Resource Econ
IDS 461 Nothin’ But Disasters
IDS 472 Environmental Planning

Total credit hours required for environmental studies minor							20 credits