Course list for Environmental Studies minor

All minors must be completed with a 2.0 minor GPA. Please see an adviser to discuss details.

Environmental Studies minor requires 25 credits

Required core course

• 5 credits - TESC 100 Introduction to Environmental Science (may be met with an approved transfer course or TESC 211, 232, 236, 239, 243, 247, 303, 317, 341, 345, 404, or 434- see adviser to make the exception)

20 credits must be completed at UW Tacoma

• 5 credits - Biological Environmental Science (B) course (see below for list)
• 5 credits - Physical Environmental Science (P) course (see below for list)
• 5 credits - Environmental Ethics or Philosophy
  • T PHIL 363 Philosophical Perspectives on the Environment
  • T PHIL 456 Environmental Ethics
• 5 credits - Environmental Law, Policy, or Regulations
  • TPOL S 438 Environmental Law
  • TEST 333 Environmental Policy and Application
  • TECON 421 Environmental Policy

List of Biology (B) and Physical Science (P) notations

• TESC 107 Geohazards and Natural Disasters (P)
• TESC 110 General Biology (B)
• TESC 111 Introduction to Astronomy (P)
• TESC 117 Physical Geology (P)
• TESC 120 Introductory Biology I (B)
• TESC 141 General Chemistry I (P)
• TESC 202 Plant Biology and Ecology (B)
• TESC 211 The Science of Environmental Sustainability (P)
• TESC 213 Physical Forces in the Natural World (P)
• TESC 215 Meteorology (P)
• TESC 227 Earth History (P)
• TESC 232 Issues in Biological Conservation (B)
• TESC 236 Plants and People: The Science of Agriculture (B)
• TESC 237 Environmental Geology (P)
• TESC 238 Human Interactions with Marine Invertebrates (B)
• TESC 239 Energy and the Environment (P)
• TESC 240 Human Biology and Environmental Interactions (B)
• TESC 241 Oceanography (P)
• TESC 243 Geography of the Physical World (B)
• TESC 247 Maritime History and Science of the PNW (P)
• TESC 302 Ecology of Mt. St. Helens (B)
• TESC 303 Sustainable Development in Africa - Study Abroad (B,P)
• TESC 304 Tropical Ecology and Sustainability (B)
• TESC 315 Applied Physics w/ Environmental Applications (P)
• TESC 317 Geology, Landscape, and Culture (P)
• TESC 318 Biogeography (P or B)
• TESC 319 Water Quality Concepts & Watershed Studies (P)
• TESC 321 Soils and Environmental Applications (P)
• TESC 329 Geomorphology and Soils (P)
• TESC 332 Conservation Biology Practice (B)
• TESC 337 Environmental Geology (Previously TESC 237)(P)
• TESC 341 Climate Change (P)
• TESC 343 Atmosphere and Air Pollution (P)
• TESC 345 Pollution and Public Policy (P)
• TESC 349 Research at Sea (P or B)
• TESC 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology (B)
• TESC 370 Genetics and Society (B)
• TESC 378 Environmental Microbiology (B)
• TESC 402 History and Ecology of Biological Invasions (B)
• TESC 404 Costa Rica Field Studies: Ecology and Community (B)
• TESC 408 Marine Plankton (B)
• TESC 415 Sedimentology (P)
• TESC 417 Field Geology (P)
• TESC 422 Evolution (B)
• TESC 426 Ecological History Field Studies (B)
• TESC 430 Environmental Modeling (P)
• TESC 431 Water Resources and Pollution (P)
• TESC 432 Forest Ecology Field Studies (B)
• TESC 433 Pollutant Fate and Transport in the Environment (P)
• TESC 434 Biology/ History/Politics of Salmon in the PNW (B)
• TESC 435 Limnology (P)
• TESC 437 Stream Ecology (P)
• TESC 438 Environmental Biology: Marine Invertebrates (B)
• TESC 440 Environmental Entomology (B)
• TESC 442 Marine Ecology (B)
• TESC 445 Estuarine Field Studies (B/P)
• TESC 452 Plants, Insects and their Interactions (B)
• TESC 490 Topics in Environmental Science (B)
• T GIS 311 Maps and GIS (P)