Environment and society
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Minor
(Minimum of 12 credits required)
(New, effective spring 2024.) The undergraduate minor in Environment and Society introduces students to the intersecting fields of Environmental and Climate Science, Environmental Humanities (inclusive of Literature and the Visual Arts), Political Science, Sociology, History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Careers in Environmental Journalism, Environmental Consulting, and Climate Change Mitigation and Postsecondary Education in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Studies require interdisciplinary study across the humanities, geosciences and social sciences. The expanding academic discipline of Environmental Humanities, which recognizes that our environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics and political power, demands fluency in this expanding field of study.
Students may earn this minor by completing 12 credits in courses that focus on Environment and Society. Students may choose from the content courses below to meet the 12-credit requirement.
Of the 12 credit hours required for the minor, 9 must be at the upper-division level; at least 75 percent of required credits for the minor must be completed at FAU; and students completing the minor must earn a minimum overall FAU grade point average of 2.0 within the coursework required. Program Coordinator: Dr. Stacey Balkan, Department of English, sbalkan@fau.edu
| Required Courses | ||
| Hazards, Climate and People | EVR 4112 | 3 |
| Literature and Environment | LIT 4434 | 3 |
| Elective Courses (choose two from table below, at least one must be upper division) | ||
| American Environmental History | AMH 3630 | 3 |
| America and the Sea | AMH 4694 | 3 |
| Exploring Natural Habitats as a Curriculum for Young Learners | EEC 4237 | 3 |
| The Blue Planet | ESC 2000 | 3 |
| Environmental Science and Engineering | ENV 3001C | 3 |
| Environmental Science and Sustainability | EVR 1001 | 3 |
| Climate Change: The Human Dimensions | EVR 1110 | 3 |
| Environment and Society | EVR 2017 | 3 |
| Climate Change: Myths, Realities and Solutions | EVR 3114 | 3 |
| Comparative Environmental Politics | INR 4054 | 3 |
| Global Environmental Politics and Policies | INR 4350 | 3 |
| Environmental Journalism | JOU 4314 | 3 |
| U.S. Environmental Law and Policy | POS 4697 | 3 |
| Environmental Sociology | SYD 3510 | 3 |
| Sociology of Climate and Disaster | SYP 4464 | 3 |
| Gender and Climate Change | WST 2351 | 3 |
| Green Consciousness | WST 4349 | 3 |