Program in Environmental Policy and Culture: About Us

Courses

The Environmental Policy and Culture Program offers several courses to fulfill the minor requirements:

ENVR_POL 390 Special Topics in Environmental Policy and Culture

ENVR_POL 394 Professional Linkage Seminar

ENVR_POL 395 Special Topics Seminar

ENVR_POL 398 Environmental Policy and Culture Research Seminar

 

Additional courses available to fulfill the minor in environmental policy and culture include courses in three broad areas, from thirteen departments or programs.

Culture (Humanities) | Policy (Social Sciences) | Natural Sciences

 

"CULTURE" (HUMANITIES)

History  215 A SPOILED NEW WORLD? WESTERN HEMISPHERE ENVIRONMENTS FROM 1492 TO THE PRESENT
History  255 AFRICAN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE: EARLIEST TIMES TO 1600

History  322 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN AMERICAN CITY, 1870 TO PRESENT

History  392 HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT
Phil       268 ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Religion 260 NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS
Religion 261 AMERICAN RELIGION, ECOLOGY, AND CULTURE
Religion 361 MYSTICS OF THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS
Religion 362 WOMEN, ECOLOGY, AND THE SACRED

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"POLICY" (SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Anthro   302 AGRICULTURE: ITS ORIGINS, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Anthro   312 HUMAN POPULATION BIOLOGY

Anthro   383 ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Envr Sci 390 ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD SCHOOL (summer) Two credits
Econ      370 ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES ECONOMICS
Geog     211 WORLD BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geog     235 ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE

Geog     313 NORTH AMERICA
Geog     328 HUMAN USE OF THE EARTH
Geog     343 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
PoliSc    329 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
PoliSci   349 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
PoliSci   367 POLITICS AND NATURE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Sociol    312 SOCIAL BASIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Sociol    376 URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS 1: ISSUES AND ACTION (Taught jointly with CIV ENG 398-COMMUNITY BASED DESIGN)

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NATURAL SCIENCES

Biol Sci  333 PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTION
Biol Sci  345 TOPICS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Biol Sci  346 FIELD ECOLOGY
Biol Sci  347 CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Earth     111 HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE

Envr Sci 201 EARTH, AN HABITABLE PLANET

Envr Sci 202 THE HEALTH OF THE BIOSPHERE

Envr Sci 203 ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Physics  301 RADIATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT

 

** Courses no longer offered that fulfill the minor requirement if previously taken:

Biol Sci 204 ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

Civ Eng 206 ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY
Civ Eng 360 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION

Geol Sci 111 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

History 392 GREEN CHICAGO: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND RESTORATION IN AN URBAN SETTING

Poli Sci 204 POLITICS AND NATURE

Poli Sci 371 ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

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