Environmental Studies Minor
Program Requirements
- Total Units Required: 18
This minor is a good fit for students for many reasons:
- Exposure: Includes introductory-level courses
- Accessibility: Includes introductory courses
- Flexibility: Wide degree of choice in elective categories
- Pairs easily with many majors to provide interdisciplinary exposure
Students must have at least 9 units of course work at the 300 level or higher that are unique to this minor.
Required Courses
Required core introductory courses (students choose two of the following; 6 units):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| BEYOND 1001 | Earth's Future: Cause & Consequences of CC* | 3 |
| BEYOND 1004 | Sustainability and Beyond: People, Planet, Prosp* | 3 |
| BEYOND 1014 | Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone* | 3 |
| BIOL 2150 | Introduction to Environmental Biology | 3 |
| EEPS 2020 | Intro. to Earth, Env. and Planetary Science | 3 |
| ENST 2220 | One Health:Linking Human, Animal, Environmental Health | 3 |
| ENST 2310 | Introcution to Environmental Humanities | 3 |
| ENST 2520 | Sustainability in Business | 3 |
| ENST 2530 | Metropolitan Environment | 3 |
| ENST 2620 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| POLSCI 2000 | Introduction to Environmental Policy |
- *
Students may count one of these Beyond Boundaries courses (first year only): BEYOND 1001, BEYOND 1004, or BEYOND 1014.
Elective Courses
One elective in analysis and communication (3 units):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ENST 3310 | Beyond the Evidence | 3 |
| ENST 3320 | Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of Nuclear Era | 3 |
| ENST 3330 | Multiparty Environmental Decision-Making | 3 |
| ENST 3340 | Writing Skills for Environmental Professionals | 3 |
| ENST 3600 | Field Methods for Environmental Science | 3 |
| ENST 3710 | Applications in GIS | 3 |
| ENST 4350 | Foundations of Research:Building a Literature Review | 3 |
| ENST 4410 | Writing Home:Creating Cultural guides for environmental site workers | 3 |
| ENST 4710 | Advanced GIS | 3 |
| ENST 4810 | RESET:Decarbonizing the Grid | 3 |
| ENST 4820 | International Climate Negotiation Seminar | 3 |
| ENST 5830 | Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic | 3 |
| INTER 4004 | Sustainability Exchange | 3 |
One elective in environmental humanities and arts (3 units):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 2881 | Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (in)Justice | 3 |
| AFAS 3075 | Recipes for Respect:Black Foodways in the U.S. | |
| ARCH 2090 | Design Process | 3 |
| ART 3315 | Photography: Art Practice (Art, Env., Culture & Image) | 3 |
| ART-ARCH 3961 | Art & Ecology | |
| COMPLIT 4111 | Pastoral Literature | 3 |
| DRAMA 4081 | Theatre for Social Change | 3 |
| ENST 3034 | Environmental Modernism | |
| ENST 3320 | Fallout:Analyzing Texts and Narratives of Nuclear Era | 3 |
| ENST 3410 | Native American Storytelling for Healthy Land Practice | 3 |
| ENST 4410 | Writing Home: Creating Cultural guides for environmental site workers | 3 |
| HIST 2561 | Urban America | 3 |
| HIST 3194 | Environment and Empire | 3 |
| HIST 3810 | Between Sand & Sea:History, Environment, and Politics in the Arabian Peninsula | |
| IPH 3120 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 3 |
| IPH 4310 | Statistics for Humanities Scholars | 3 |
| LAND 5424 | Seeds | 3 |
| PHIL 2080 | Environmental Ethics | |
| WRITING 3005 | Writing the Natural World | 3 |
| WRITING 3400 | Introduction to Playwriting |
One elective in social sciences (3 units):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AMCS 2270 | Topics: Intro to Native Amercian and Indigenous Studies | 3 |
| ANTH 3102 | Topics: Sustainbility in Extractive Communities | 3 |
| ANTH 3215 | Food, Culture an Power | |
| ANTH 3472 | Global Energy and the American Dream | 3 |
| ANTH 3602 | Env. Inequal: Toxicity, Health and Justice | 3 |
| ANTH 3610 | Culture and Environment | 3 |
| ANTH 3740 | Social Landscapes in Global View | 3 |
| ANTH 3796 | Meltdown: THe Archaeology of Climate Change | 3 |
| ANTH 4281 | Ecological Anthropology | 3 |
| ECON 4511 | Environmental Policy | 3 |
| ENST 2510 | Systems Thinking | |
| ENST 3060 | Community-based Conservation in Madagascar | |
| ENST 3310 | Beyond the Evidence | |
| ENST 3520 | Ecological Economics | |
| ENST 3530 | Sustainable Cities | |
| ENST 3540 | Environmental Justice | |
| ENST 4350 | Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review | |
| ENST 4510 | Environmental Law | 3 |
| ENST 4527 | IPCC: Governance, Policy and Science | 3 |
| ENST 4710 | Advanced GIS | 3 |
| ENST 4720 | Applications in Geospatial Intelligence | 3 |
| MGT 4510 | Business & Gov't: Understanding & Influencing the Regul.Env. | |
| MGT 4603 | Intro. to Social Entrepreneurship | |
| MPH 5002 | Epidemiology* | |
| MPH 5323 | TPS: Climate Change and Public Health* | 3 |
| POLSCI 3171 | Plitics of Environmental Regulation | 3 |
| POLSCI 3328 | Energy Politics | |
| POLSCI 3630 | Quantitative Political Methodology | |
| POLSCI 3760 | Urbanization, globalization, and the environment | 3 |
| POLSCI 3890 | Power, Justice and the City | 3 |
| POLSCI 4043 | Policy Analysis, Assessment and Practical Wisdom | 3 |
| POLSCI 4905 | Research Design and Methods | 3 |
| SOC 3350 | Poverty and the New American City | 3 |
| SOC 4810 | Global Structures and Problems | |
| URST 2000 | The Study of Cities and Metropolitan America | 3 |
One elective in natural science (3 units):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 3053 | Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies | |
| ANTH 3660 | Primate Ecology, Biology and Behavior | 3 |
| ANTH 3662 | Primate Conservation Biology | |
| ANTH 4285 | Environmental Archaeology | |
| ANTH 4803 | Advance GIS Modeling & Landscape Analysis | 3 |
| BIOL 3171 | Biology for Climate Change Solutions | |
| BIOL 3220 | Woody Plants of Missouri | 3 |
| BIOL 3221 | Research and Public Education in the Arboretum | 3 |
| BIOL 3430 | Plants, People, and the Environment | 3 |
| BIOL 3494 | Microbes and the Environmnent | |
| BIOL 3700 | Animal Behavior | 3 |
| BIOL 3730 | Laboratory on the Evolution of Animal Behavior | |
| BIOL 3810 | Introduction to Ecology | |
| BIOL 3900 | Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy | |
| BIOL 4193 | Experimental Ecology Laboratory | |
| BIOL 4195 | Disease Ecology | |
| BIOL 4196 | Community Ecology | |
| EEPS 3150 | Environmental Impacts of Human Energy Use | 3 |
| EEPS 3173 | Introduction to Soil Science | |
| EEPS 3230 | Biogeochemistry | |
| EEPS 3400 | Minerals, Rocks, and Resources in the Environment | |
| EEPS 3420 | Environmental Systems | |
| EEPS 3853 | Earth History | |
| EEPS 3860 | THe Earth's Climate System | |
| EEPS 3873 | Geospatial Science | |
| EEPS 4074 | Remote Sensing | |
| EEPS 4094 | Surface Processes | |
| EEPS 4284 | Hydrology | |
| EEPS 4425 | Aqueous Geochemistry | |
| EEPS 4544 | Exploration andEnv. Geophysics | |
| EEPS 4684 | Geospatial Field Methods | |
| EEPS 4864 | Paleoclimatology | |
| ENST 3600 | Field Methods for Environmental Science | |
| ENST 3610 | Urban Ecology | |
| ENST 3620 | Applied Conservation Biology | |
| ENST 3630 | Arctice Climate System | 3 |
| ENST 4710 | Advanced GIS | |
| ENST 4730 | Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology | |
| LAND 5330 | Landscape Ecology |
Additional Information
Substitutions and Transfer Credit
Requests for course credit from other institutions (transfer credit) need approval by the College Office. Please visit the Policies and Procedures for more information.
For Minors requesting a course substitution for one of the Minor electives, please complete the Course Petition Form.
Study Abroad
To study abroad, students must be in their junior or senior year and have at least a 3.0 grade point average. Students must understand the language of the country in which they plan to study. Grades do not transfer back to Washington University. Credits can be applied toward the 120 credits needed to graduate, and courses taken abroad can substitute for courses for the Environmental Major and Minors. These substitutions should be worked out before leaving for Study Abroad. Final decisions for course credit will be made once the student has returned and the courses and grades are reported back to Washington University. The minimum grade for study abroad coursework to apply to major/minor credit is C-.
Environmental Studies will accept up to 3 courses (9 units) from a study abroad program toward the Environmental Studies Minor. Dr. Jeff Catalano is the study abroad advisor for Environmental Studies.
Considerations
- Participating in a Washington University program allows financial assistance, and students may earn full academic credit for study abroad if they participate in Washington University programs.
- Students wishing to participate in non-Washington University programs must petition for credit before participating in the program.
- Students must communicate regularly with their advisors while abroad and report to them upon return.
- Each student must contact the Overseas Office to arrange for the transfer of credit.
- For details, contact the Overseas Office.
Visit the Environmental Studies page
for additional information about this program.
Contact Info
| Phone: | 314-935-7047 |
| Email: | bowinston@wustl.edu |
| Website: | http://enst.wustl.edu |