Minor in Environmental Science & Policy
20 Units (ES_PUM01)

This minor may be combined with any major at CSULB except the B.A. and B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy. The minor requires a minimum of 20 units (at least 9 of which must be upper division) of course work in Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Environmental Science and Policy, Geography, or Geology.

Prerequisites

Students are required to take the following courses: BIOL 200 (or BIOL 211A); ECON 300 (or 100 and 101); GEOL 102 and 104 as prerequisites for the following required courses, but these prerequisites do not count toward the minor.

Requirements

Students must take ES P 200, 300I, and a minimum of 14 additional units from the following list:

ANTH 140 Pyramids, Tombs and Treasure: Wonders of the Past (3)
ANTH 301 Principles of Archeology (4)
ANTH 481 Faunal Analysis (4)

BIOL 303 Coastal Systems and Human Impacts (3)
BIOL 350 General Ecology (3)
BIOL 353 Marine Biology (3)
BIOL 450 Plant Ecology (3)
BIOL 451 Wetlands and Mangrove Ecology (3)
BIOL 456 Population Ecology (3)
BIOL 457 Field Methods in Ecology (3)
BIOL 459 Conservation Biology (3)
BIOL 464 Aquatic Toxicology (3)

ECON 306I Environmental Issues of the World Economy (3)
ECON 462 Environmental Economics (3)
ECON 463 Energy Economics (3)
ECON 464 Natural Resource Economics (3)

ES P 400 Environmental Science and Policy Capstone Project (3)

GEOG 440 Land and Water Environments (3)
GEOG 442 Biogeography (3)
GEOG 443 Watersheds: Processes and Management (4)
GEOG 444 Climatology (3)
GEOG 455 People as Agents of Environmental Change (3)
GEOG 458 Hazards & Risk Management (3)
GEOG 460 Population Geography (3)
GEOG 487A Applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS): Environment and Natural Resources (4)

GEOL 190 Environmental Geology (3)
GEOL 280 Water Resources and Society (3)
GEOL 300I Earth Systems and Global Change (3)
GEOL 303 Coastal Systems and Human Impacts (3)
GEOL 465 Physical and Chemical Oceanography (3)
GEOL 466 Oceanography Laboratory and Ocean Studies (1)
GEOL 477 Hydrogeology (3)