Minor in Environmental Sciences
Minor in Environmental Sciences
(17-19 credit hours)
Advisors: Fred Chambers
- Students at CU Denver must follow the graduation guidelines specified in the catalog from the year in which they were admitted. The following link contains an archive of the course catalogs from previous years: www.ucdenver.edu/registrar/catalogs/archived
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Two lecture/laboratory courses from the following list (eight to ten credit hours; see note 2):
- BIOL 1020/2021, General Biology I / General Biology Lab I
- BIOL 2010/2011, General Biology II / General Biology Lab II
- CHEM 2031/2038, General Chemistry I / General Chemistry Lab I
- CHEM 2061/2068, General Chemistry II / General Chemistry Lab II
- ENVS 1044/1045, Introduction to Environmental Science + Lab
- GEOL 1072, Physical Geology + Lab
- GEOL 1082, Physical Geology + Lab
- PHYS 2010/2030, College Physics I / College Physics Lab I
- PHYS 2020/2040, College Physics II / Colllege Physics Lab II
Three upper division courses outside of the student's major discipline from the following list (nine credit hours; see notes):
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ENVS 3082 |
Energy and the Environment |
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Or |
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PHYS 3082 |
Energy and the Environment |
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GEOG 3232 |
Weather and Climate |
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GEOG 3240 |
Colorado Climates |
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GEOG 4020 |
Earth Environments and Human Impacts |
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GEOG 4060 |
Remote Sensing I: Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing |
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GEOG 4090 |
Environmental Modeling with Geographic Information Systems |
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GEOG 4230 |
Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment |
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GEOG 4240 |
Applied Geomorphology |
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GEOG 4265 |
Sustainability in Resources Management |
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GEOG 4270 |
Glacial Geomorphology |
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GEOG 4280 |
Environmental Hydrology |
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GEOG 4335 |
Contemporary Environmental Issues |
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GEOG 4350 |
Environment and Society in the American Past |
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GEOG 4420 |
The Politics of Nature |
| GEOG 4440 | Science, Policy, and the Environment |
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GEOG 4720 |
Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Solutions |
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GEOG 4731 |
Mountain Biogeography |
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GEOL 4030 |
Environmental Geology |
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BIOL 3411 |
Principles of Ecology |
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CHEM 4700 |
Environmental Chemistry (See NOTES) |
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ECON 4540 |
Environmental Economics |
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PSCI 4354 |
Environmental Politics |
Notes for Environmental Science Minor:
- ?In addition, admission to the MS in ES program requires one semester of physics (with lab) and one semester of calculus.
- Students must take a minimum of 9 hours of the upper-division courses at the Downtown Campus
- If the student plans to go on to the CU Denver MS in Environmental Sciences program, they should choose courses other than CHEM 4700. This is a core course in the MS in Environmental Sciences program.
- Many of the upper-division courses have prerequisites; the student must check the catalog for prerequisite requirements for these courses.
- The three upper-division elective courses for the Environmental Sciences minor cannot be from the student's major discipline, even if the particular course is not counted toward the major.
- All work must be submitted for an Environmental Sciences minor must have a grade of C (2.0) or above.
