Apr 01, 2025

2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Environmental Science and Policy Minor

This minor may be combined with any major at CSULB except the B.A. and B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy. It requires a minimum of 20 units (at least 9 of which must be upper division) of course work.

Prerequisites

Take all the following prerequisite courses (do not count toward the minor):

GEOL 102 - Planet Earth (3 units) and
GEOL 104 - Planet Earth Lab (1 unit)
or
GEOG 140 - Introduction to Physical Geography (3 units)
or
GEOG 130 - Geography of Weather and Climate (4 units)
or
ES P 101 - The Global Environment (3 units)
BIOL 200 - General Biology (4 units)
or
ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics (3 units)

Requirements

Take all the following courses:

ES P 200 - California Environmental Issues (3 units)
ES P 300 - Environmental Law and Policy (3 units)

Take a minimum of 14 units from the following:

At least 9 units of sustainability coursework from the following list:

AIS 336 - Indigenous Philosophies of Sustainability (3 units)
ASAM 350 - Environmental Justice (3 units)
BIOL 459 - Conservation Biology (3 units)
DESN 268 - History and Theory of Sustainability in Design (3 units)
ENGR 302 - Energy and Environment: A Global Perspective (3 units)
ES P 350 - Environmental Politics (3 units)
ES P 392 - Climate Action and Sustainability at CSULB (3 units)
ES P 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (3 units)
Students may choose to take GEOG 450 instead of ES P 450.
GEOG 355 - International Environmental Issues (3 units)
GEOG 464 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities (3 units)
HM 370 - Exploring a Sustainable Food System (3 units)
MKTG 405 - Green Marketing and Sustainability (3 units)

With no more than two elective courses from the following list:

BIOL 350 - General Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 353 - Marine Biology (3 units)
BIOL 450 - Plant Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 451 - Wetlands and Mangrove Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 456 - Population Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 457 - Field Methods in Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 459 - Conservation Biology (3 units)
BIOL 464 - Aquatic Toxicology (3 units)
ECON 306 - Environmental Issues of the World Economy (3 units)
ECON 406 - Applied Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3 units)
ECON 462 - Environmental Economics (3 units)
ECON 464 - Natural Resource Economics (3 units)
GEOG 440 - Land and Water Resources (3 units)
GEOG 442 - Biogeography (3 units)
GEOG 443 - Watersheds: Processes and Management (4 units)
GEOG 444 - Climatology (3 units)
GEOG 447 - Landscape Restoration (3 units)
GEOG 448 - Environmental Assessment (3 units)
GEOG 455 - People As Agents of Environmental Change (3 units)
GEOG 458 - Hazards and Risk Management (3 units)
GEOG 460 - Population Geography (3 units)
GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences (4 units)
GEOG 487A - Applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS): Environment and Natural Resources (4 units)
GEOL 280 - Water Resources and Society (3 units)
GEOL 300 - Earth Systems and Global Change (3 units)
GEOL 339 - Introduction to Geomorphology (3 units)
GEOL 465 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography (3 units)
GEOL 466 - Oceanography Laboratory and Ocean Studies (1 unit)
GEOL 477 - Hydrogeology (4 units)
HIST 482 - Recent American Environmental History (3 units)
ENGL 444 - Literature and Environment (3 units)
WGSS 424 - Gendering Environmental Justice (3 units)