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Spring 2005 Course Offerings in Environmental Studies

Printable Version of Spring 2005 ENVST Offerings

University of Utah Spring 2005 Course Catalog

COURSE UPDATES:
ENGL 5920 -002 Cultural Foundations in Nature, Ecology and Environmentalism. Satisfies a Group D Humanities Elective Requirement.
 
HONOR 3215 Foundations of Science: Literature of Ecology. Satisfies additional major hours needed to fulfill the 48 credit hours required for the major. Visit the Honors Program to register for HONOR courses
 
PHIL 5360 History of Science: History of Ecology. Satisfies a Group D Humanities Elective Requirement.
 
WRTG 4080 Environmental Writing: Satisfies a Group D Humanities Elective Requirement.

1. Both of the following core courses are prerequisites for all other environmental studies courses:
BIOL 1000 General Biology (4) SF
ENVST 2100 Intro. to Enviro. Studies (3) BI or HI

2. Three of the following Biology/Natural Science courses, at least one of which is from Group A.

Group A: Core Biology/Natural Science
BIOL 3460 Global Environmental Issues (3) SL, SF
CHEM 1010 Chemistry, Humanity and Environment (3) SF
GEOGR 1000 Global Chg & Mtn West Environments (3) SF
METEO 1020 Climate Change (3) SF

Group B: Electives Biology/Natural Science
BIOL 1330 Plants & Society (3) SF
BIOL 3410 Ecology and Evolution (3)
BIOL 3450 Rainforest Ecology and Conservation (3) SF
CHEM 1110 Elementary Chemistry (4) SF
CHEM 1120 Elementary Bioorganic Chemistry (4) SF
GEOGR 3210 Global Climate Change (3) SF
GEOGR 3400 Population Geography (3)
GEOGR 5810 Field Seminar (4)
GEO 1110/1111 Intro. to Earth Systems w/ lab (4)
H EDU 3050 Community Health Issues (3) BF


3. Three of the following Humanities/Aesthetics courses, at least one of which is from Group C.

Group C: Core Humanities/Aesthetic Approaches
ARCH 1611 Freshman Sem: Bldg Comm. & the Culture of
Arch. (3) FF or HF
COMM 5360 Environmental Communication (3)
HIST 4380 Environmental History of the U.S. (3)
PHIL 3530 Environmental Ethics (3) SL, HF

Group D: Electives Humanities/Aesthetic Approaches
PHIL 5350 Topics in Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of
Ecology and Philosophy of Biology (3)


4. Three of the following Human Behavior/Policy/Decision Making courses, at least one of which is from Group E.

Group E: Core Human Behavior/Policy/Decision Making
ECON 3250 Intro. To Enviro. and Nat. Resource Econ. (3) BF

Group F: Electives Human Behavior/Policy/Decision Making
ANTHR 1301 World Prehistory: An Introduction (3) BF
ANTHR 4184 Hunter-Gatherer Ethnology (3)
FCS 3600 Consumer and Community (3) BF
FCS 5730 Community and Enviro. Change (3)
GEOGR 3330 Urban Environmental Geography (3) SF
GEO 5341/POL S 5324/GEOGR 5371/URBPL 5371 Practicum
in Env Systems Sustainability (3)
POL S 5322 Envmtl Policy (3)
PSYCH 3130 Mind and Nature (4) QI
PSYCH 3410 Introduction to Social Psychology (3)
PRT 3500 Outdoor Recreation (FAC: Ruddell) (3)
PRT 5420 Park Policy (FAC:Ruddell) (3)
SOC 3450 Population and Society (3) QB, QI
T & L 5175 Natural Science Instruction in the Outdoors (3)
URBPL 5360 Environmental Planning Law and Policy (3)
URBPL/GEOGR 5371 Practicum Env Sys Sustainability (3)


5. Technical Requirements.

a. Critical Thinking Skills Requirement Fulfilled by One of the Following Courses:
COMM 1270 Analysis of Argument (3) HF, QB
PHIL 1250 Reasoning & Rational Decision Making (3) QB
PHIL 3200 Deductive Logic (4) QB

b. Statistics Requirement Fulfilled by One of the Following Courses:
COMM 3710 Intro. to Quant. Comm Research (3) QI - Joint
COMM & ENVST majors ONLY
ECON 3640 Probability and Statistical Inference for
Economists (3) QB
FCS 3210 Statistics in FCS (4) QI
GEOGR 3020 Geographical Analysis (3) QB, QI
POL S 5001 Quantitative Analysis in Pol S (3) QI
PSYCH 3000 Statistical Methods in Psych. (4) QB, QI
SBS 3000 Intro. to Statistics in SBS (4) QB, QI
SOC 3112 Social Statistics (4) QB, QI

c. Research Methodology Requirement Fulfilled by One of the Following Courses:
COMM 5710 Communication Research (4) QI - Joint COMM
& ENVST majors ONLY
ECON 4650 Principles of Econometrics (3) QI
FCS 3200 Research Meth. in FCS (4)
POL S 3001 Political Analysis (3) QB, QI
PRT 3780 Evaluation/Research in PRT (3) QB, QI
PSYCH 3010 Research Methods in PSYCH (4) QI, CW- Joint
PSYCH & ENVST majors ONLY
SOC 3111 Research Methods (3)
SOC 3473 Social Epidemiology (3) QB, QI