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Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minor

Program Overview

Do you have a love for the environment? Do you wonder how the world works? Are you interested in the impact humans are having on the planet? If so, a minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences could be right for you! Earth & Environmental Sciences provides an overview of how science affects our environment, focusing on interactions between the solid Earth, its water, its air, and its living organisms, and on dynamic, interdependent relationships between these four components.

Earth and environmental scientists also consider how these relationships produce environmental change at different timescales. To do this, they combine knowledge, models and methods drawn from geology, biology, physics and chemistry.

College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Program Contact

Valerie Reynolds, Ph.D.

Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator

vreynol2@charlotte.edu

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Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minor at a Glance

To obtain a Minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, students must complete 22 credit hours offered from the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences and the Department of Biological Sciences. Participating students have some flexibility in choosing elective courses that reflect their specific area of interest within the environmental field. If students are majoring in the departments of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences or Biological Sciences, they must take at least 12 credits outside of their major subject area (that is, outside of BIOL, ESCI, GEOG, GEOL, or METR, depending on the student’s major). Likewise, Environmental Studies majors must take the 12 elective credits outside of GEOG. Students may not double count major requirements or electives for elective courses in the minor.

Delivery
On-Campus
Credit Hours
22 Credit Hours
Duration
Full Time 2-3 semesters
Start Date
Fall, Spring

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