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   College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Environmental Studies & Geology : Minor : Environmental Studies
Core
All Courses Required ( [ ] designates credits hours)
ENVS 101 Environmental Studies I - Natural Science [4]
ENVS 102 Environmental Studies II - Social Science [4]
ENVS 240 Environmental Research Procedures I [3]
ENVS 241 Environmental Research Procedures II [3]

Electives
Eight credits, all of which must be selected from the natural sciences or the social sciences

Natural Sciences
BIOL 202 Biology II [4]
BIOL 311 Invertebrate Zoology [4]
BIOL 322 Botany [4]
BIOL 345 Vertebrate Natural History [4]
BIOL 354 Ecology [4]
BIOL 356 Aquatic Ecology [4]
ENVS 320 Advanced GIS
ENVS 397 Water Lab [1]
CHEM 106 General Chemistry II [4]
CHEM 310 Basic Organic Chemistry [3]
or 315 Organic Chemistry I [4]
CHEM 316 Organic Chemistry II [4]
CHEM 321 Introduction of Analytical Chemistry [4]
ENVS 320 Advanced GIS [4]
ENVS 351 Environmental Biogeochemistry [4]
GEOL 201 Surficial Geology [4]
GEOL 301 Structural Geology [4]
GEOL 307 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation [4]
GEOL 464 Hydrogeology [4]
PHYS 112 Introductory General Physics II [4]
or 126 Physics II [4]

Social Sciences
ANTH 200 Introductory Cultural Anthropology [4]
ANTH 310 Cultural Ecology and Disease [4]
ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics [3]
ECON 312 Environmental Economics [3]
ENGL 293 A Place in the Universe [2]
ENVS 201 Environmentalism [2]
ENVS 204 Environmental History [2]
ENVS 250 Spirituality and the Environment [3]
ENVS 345 International Environmental Politics [4]
ENVS 320 Advanced GIS [4]
ENVS 415 Natural Resources Management [3]
PHIL 207 Ethics [4]
POLS 212 American State Governments and Politics [2]
POLS 240 Deep Ecology [2-4]
POLS 315 Environmental Law [2]
POLS 345 Global Ecopolitics [4]
PSYC 280 Social Psychology [4]
PSYC 285 Environmental Psychology [4]
SOCI 376 Technology, Values, and Environment [4]
SOCI 388 Populations [4]

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Division of Environmental Studies & Geology
Alfred University
1 Saxon Drive
Alfred, NY 14802

Division Chairperson: Dr. Michele Hluchy
Ph: 607.871.2838
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Division Secretary: Margaret Knopf
Ph: 607.871.2634
Fx: 607.871.2697