Environmental Studies Minor

Coordinator:
Angela Moore

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

         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