Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015

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Environmental Sciences Minor

Minor Requirements

Seventeen hours with minimum grades of C or better in the following classes:

ENSC 1000Intro to Environmental Science

3
ENSC 1000LIntro to Environ Science Lab

1
BIOL 2800Ecology

4

A minimum of 9 hours of 3000/4000 level courses from the following list.

BIOL 4460General Entomology

4
BIOL 4470Herpetology

4
BIOL 4490Phycology

4
BIOL 4500Invertebrate Zoology

4
BIOL 4530Mammalogy

4
BIOL 4610Vertebrate Zoology

4
BIOL 4725Community & Ecosystem Ecology

4
BIOL 4760Plant Systematics

4
BIOL 4870Wildlife Management

4
ECON 3680Nat Resource & Environment Eco

3
GEOG 3100Intro to Geographic Info

3
GEOG 4100Adv Geographic Information

3
GEOG 4112Advanced Weather & Climate

3
GEOL 4100Introductory Hydrology

4
GEOL 4200General Geomorphology

4
GEOL 4300Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

4
GEOL 4600Soil & Environmental Quality

4
GEOL 4950Special Topics

1 - 4
GEOL 4951Special Topics with Lab

1 - 4
ENSC 3000-4000 level
ENSC 3000-4000 level

9

Note: Available options for the 9 semester hours of 3000-4000 level ENSC courses exclude the following:

ENSC 3999
ENSC 4940
ENSC 4960
ENSC 4980
ENSC 4999
Senior Capstone course

Courses that are included in a student's major curriculum cannot be used toward the environmental science minor. 

Please note that some of these courses have prerequisites that are not part of the Environmental Science minor.

Students earning an Environmental Science minor need to take BIOL 1107/BIOL 1107L or BIOL 1108/BIOL 1108L as a prerequisite for BIOL 2800 (Ecology).  They should contact the instructor prior to registration for permission to enroll.

Note: Courses used to fulfill minor requirements cannot be used to fulfill requirements in Areas A-E. 

Note:  A minimum of 10 credit hours applied to the minor must be taken in residence at Georgia College.