The program also encourages students to develop their environmental literacy and to deepen their understandings of the various and complex relationships between humans and their biological, physical, and cultural environment. Because understanding these relationships requires approaching our topics from a variety of critical perspectives, the minor is interdisciplinary, emphasizing courses in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Courses leading the Environmental Studies minor culminate in an internship program, in which students participate during their senior year. The minor seeks to prepare students for careers in education, public policy, law, public health, or public administration, in the non-profit sector, or in the sciences, as well as for graduate study in a related discipline. The minor consists of at least 31 units, involving 12-17 units in excess of courses that meet or count toward the general graduation requirements.
Underlined courses satisfy or count toward a general graduation requirement.
At least nine units from approved electives outside the division of the major, at least six of which must be upper division. Courses listed in both Electives and Basic Science and Math Core areas cannot be counted in both areas. These courses do not fulfill the general graduation requirement for Natural Sciences. Nature and Culture 3 units Winter. Emphasis is placed on the role and perspective of different disciplines in addressing environmental issues in their cultural and historical contexts.