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Environmental Science & Resource Management

ESRM Minor

Minor Checksheet

Minor in Environmental Science and Resource Management (23 Units):

The Environmental Science and Resource Management minor provides non-majors with the opportunity to explore environmental issues and examine human impacts on natural systems.  The Environmental Science and Resource Management minor provides students with an understanding of how their personal choices affect the environment around them.   In addition it equips students for further study in environmental science, law, policy, or management.

Lower Division Requirement (7 Units):

ESRM 100 Introduction to Environmental Science and Resource Management (3)
BIOL 200 Principles of Organismal and Population Biology (4)

Upper Division Requirements (13 Units):

ESRM 329 Environmental Institutions, Law, and Regulation (3)
BIOL 433 Ecology and the Environment (4)
ECON 300 Fundamentals of Economics (3)*
ECON 362 Introduction to Environmental Economics (3),
or
ENGL 337 Literature of the Environment (3)

*ECON 110 Principles of Microeconomics (3) and ECON 111 Principles of Macroeconomics (3) may be substituted for ECON 300

Upper Division Electives (3 Units):

Any other 300-400 level ESRM cousre (3)