Updated 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20255
Environmental Studies
Programs
- Environmental Communication, B.S. major
-
Environmental Studies, B.S.
major
Ecosystem Emphasis -
Environmental Studies, B.S.
major
Geohydrology Emphasis -
Environmental Studies, B.S.
major
Environmental Health and Toxicology Emphasis - Indigenous Sustainability Studies, B.S. major
-
Policy and Planning, B.S.
major
Natural Resources Planning Emphasis - Sustainability and Resource Management, B.A.S. major
- Environmental Communication minor
- Environmental Science minor
- Indigenous Sustainability Studies minor
- Sustainability minor
- Water Science minor
Media, Integrated
Programs
- Environmental Communication, B.S. major
- Marketing Communication, B.S. major
- Mass Communication, B.S. major
- Environmental Communication minor
- Film Studies minor
- Mass Communication minor
Environmental Communication minor
Required Credits: 20
Required GPA: 2.25
I REQUIRED COURSES
Complete the following courses:
- ENVR 2000 Introduction to Environmental Science (3 credits)
- ENVR 3880 Environmental Controversies (2 credits)
- MASC 2460 Digital Photography (3 credits)
- MASC 2850 Media Writing I (3 credits)
II REQUIRED ELECTIVES
Choose two 3 credit courses from the following:
- BIOL 3337 Science Communication (3 credits)
- COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 credits)
- COMM 2100 Career and Professional Communication (3 credits)
- COMM 3400 Environmental Communication (3 credits)
- MASC 2243 Video Editing (3 credits)
- MASC 3150 Photojournalism (3 credits)
- MASC 3260 Public Relations (3 credits)
- MASC 3270 Media and Social Change (3 credits)
- MASC 3450 Advanced Video Production (3 credits)
- MASC 3500 Media Design (3 credits)
- MASC 3600 Social Media Marketing (3 credits)
- MASC 3720 Media Writing II (3 credits)
- MASC 3900 Topics in Mass Communication (1-3 credits)
- MASC 4220 Multimedia Marketing (3 credits)
Choose one course from the following:
- ENVR 2925 People of the Environment: Sustainability Perspective (3 credits)
- ENVR 3040 Environmental Economics (3 credits)
- ENVR 3600 Environmental Justice and Sustainability (3 credits)
- ENVR 3700 Natural Resource Management (3 credits)
- ENVR 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
or INST 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits) - ENVR 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
or INST 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits) - ENVR 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
or INST 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits) - ENVR 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
or INST 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits) - ENVR 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
or INST 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits) - ENVR 3800 Sustainability Analytics & Modeling (3 credits)
- ENVR 3840 Wetlands Ecology (3 credits)
- ENVR 4050 Geochemistry (3 credits)
- ENVR 4110 Environmental Chemistry (3 credits)
- ENVR 4200 Wastewater Treatment (3 credits)
- ENVR 4210 Environmental Law and Policy (3 credits)
- ENVR 4220 Sampling and Analysis (4 credits)
- ENVR 4240 Waste Management (4 credits)
- ENVR 4260 Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Community Development (3 credits)
- ENVR 4400 Environmental Microbiology (3 credits)
- ENVR 4500 Environmental Toxicology (4 credits)
- ENVR 4610 Sustainability: Theory and Practice (4 credits)
- GEOG 3125 Weather and Climate (3 credits)
- GEOG 3226 Cartography (3 credits)
- GEOG 3231 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
- GEOG 3232 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
- GEOG 3255 Introduction to Remote Sensing (3 credits)
- GEOG 3400 Economic Geography (3 credits)
- GEOG 3532 Political Ecology (3 credits)
- GEOG 4140 Landscape Ecology (3 credits)
- GEOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)
- GEOL 3211 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits)
- GEOL 3212 Hydrogeology (3 credits)
- GEOL 3400 Glacial and Pleistocene Geology (3 credits)
- GEOL 3500 Topics in Paleontology (3 credits)
- GEOL 3600 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (3 credits)
- GEOL 3700 Environmental Geophysics (3 credits)