Minor in Environmental Sciences

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

Two lecture/laboratory courses from the following list (eight to ten credit hours; see note 2):

Three upper division courses outside of the student's major discipline from the following list (nine credit hours; see notes):

ENVS 3082	Energy and the Environment
Or
PHYS 3082	Energy and the Environment

GEOG 3232	Weather and Climate
GEOG 3240	Colorado Climates
GEOG 4020	Earth Environments and Human Impacts
GEOG 4060	Remote Sensing I: Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing
GEOG 4090	Environmental Modeling with Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 4230	Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment
GEOG 4240	Applied Geomorphology
GEOG 4265	Sustainability in Resources Management
GEOG 4270	Glacial Geomorphology
GEOG 4280	Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 4335	Contemporary Environmental Issues
GEOG 4350	Environment and Society in the American Past
GEOG 4420	The Politics of Nature
GEOG 4440	Science, Policy, and the Environment
GEOG 4720	Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Solutions
GEOG 4731	Mountain Biogeography
GEOL 4030	Environmental Geology
BIOL 3411	Principles of Ecology
CHEM 4700	Environmental Chemistry (See NOTES)
ECON 4540	Environmental Economics
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.

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