Courses
The Environmental Studies minor was first offered beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year. If you began your course of study at UTC prior to that year, and wish to declare an EVST minor, please check with your advisor about the potential impact (if any) that shifting catalog years might have on your major and progress toward graduation.
- Core Course
PHIL 2270 Environmental Ethics (this course is replacing EVST 2020 as a core course for the EVST Minor starting in Fall 2025; students enrolling in it this Spring can petition to substitute it for EVST 2020)
- Regular Elective Courses:
Humanities:
ENGL 3850 Writing for Social Change
ESC 4840 Values and the Environment
WGSS 4650 Ecofeminism
UHON 3620R The Art and Literature of the Romantics
Social and Health Sciences:
EVST/ESC 3010 Justice, Policy, and the Environment
ESC 4100 Environmental Law and Agencies
ANTH 2800 Underwater Archaeology
SOC 2200 Sociology of Globalization
SOC 3410 Culture, Environment, Power
COMM 4100 Public Communication and Environmental Issues
HHP 3070 Outdoor Leadership Skills
MGT 2500 Business and Society
NUTR 3330 Food and Culture
NUTR 3360 Community Nutrition
PSPS 3420 American Public Policy
Natural Sciences:
EVST/ESC 4999R Urban Forests
EVST/ESC 4999R Ecological Design
ESC 4300 Case Studies in Environmental Problems
GEOL 1025 Geology of the National Parks (LC or NL)
GEOL 1030 Natural Hazards (LC or NL)
GEOL 1040 Earth’s Resources and the Environment (LC or NL)
GEOL 2200 Global Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future (GE LC or NL)
GEOL 2250 Oceanography (GE LC or NL)
GEOL 3220 Soil Properties, Genesis, and Development Across the Landscape
GEOL 4470 Applied Environmental Geochemistry
GEOL 4530 GIS for Geoscientists
GEOL 4960R Geology Field Experience- Special Topics/Courses than can be Petitioned for the Minor
UHON 3630R Tropical Island Ecologies
Environmental Studies Minor Requirements
18 hours total (8 hours at the 3000 level and above)