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Minor in Environmental Justice

The Department of Natural Science offers a minor in Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice is concerned with the process through which inequalities arise from social, political, and environmental decision-making, actions, and policies. At the local, regional, national, and international levels, environmental justice is interested in the mechanisms that give rise to class, gender, and racial disparities.

This interdisciplinary minor integrates community-based learning, laboratory/fieldwork, and GIS (Geographical Information Systems) into required courses.

Requirements Units
BIO 2108/2108L Contemporary Environmental Issues with Lab (3/1) 4
HST 2440 Environmental History/Environmental Justice 4
NSC 2880 Environmental Justice Capstone 4
     
Plus two courses from the following: 6 – 8
BUS 2104 Economics of Environment
BUS 2116 Economic Development in Less Developed Countries (CDiv)
NSC 2001 Science/Technology in Developing Countries (CDiv)
NSC 2018 Nutrition/Health in Developing Countries (CDiv)
PHL 2220 Philosophy and the Environment  
REL 2620 Way of the Earth (CDiv)  
SOC 2625 Animals, People, and the Environment (4)  
SOC 2692 Animals, People, and the Environment – Field (1)  
     
Other elective courses may be used as electives at the discretion of the advisor (3-4)
     
Total Unit Requirement 18-20