Minor in Environmental Sciences
The environmental sciences program offers an undergraduate minor in environmental sciences. The undergraduate minor will increase students’ technical competence in addressing and analyzing environmental issues, their origins, ramifications and resolutions. The environmental sciences program at SIUE is designed to enhance and promote multidisciplinary education while providing students with career opportunities in a wide area of interests.
Faculty from several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences provide mentoring, direction and instruction. Practicing professionals also lend their expertise to the program. A close relationship is maintained with industries and environmental agencies so that students and faculty members can incorporate real-world issues into their studies.
Students must apply for and be accepted into the minor program in environmental sciences. The minimum requirement for admission is a cumulative GPA of 2.0.
Minor Requirements
To satisfy the minor requirements, students must take and complete the following 19 units of courses while maintaining a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0:
- ENSC 125 – Topics of Environmental Health and Toxicology (spring)
- ENSC 210 – Applied Research Methods (spring)
- ENSC 220 – Principles of Environmental Sciences (fall/spring)
- ENSC 220L - Principles of Environmental Sciences Lab (fall/spring)
- ENSC 330 – Environmental Health and Waste Management (spring)
- ENSC 340 – Ecosystem Management and Sustainability (fall)
- ENSC 402 – Environmental Law (fall)
