Minor in Environmental Values

The minor in Environmental Values may be added to any bachelor's program at UW. This minor creates a vital link among the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences through exploration of aesthetics, culture, ethics, and policy.

The minor requires a total of 18 credit hours, including at least one course within each of four areas of concentration. At least 12 of these credits must be outside the primary major, and nine of these credits must be at or above the 3000-level. A three-hour, core course (either PHIL 2330 Environmental Ethics or PHIL 2340 Natural Resource Ethics) is required of all students.

Areas of concentration:

Aesthetics - Expressing ourselves through the performing, visual and literary arts.

	ART 4640	Art and Ecology <C3, W3>
	ENG 4050	Nature Writing
	ENG 4240	19th Century English Literature: Romantic Period
	G&R 4500	American Landscape
	G&R 4530	Images of Wyoming and the West
	THEA 2400	Vertical Dance I
	THEA 3400	Vertical Dance II

Culture - Viewing human meaning and purpose in historical and contemporary terms.

	AIST 3000	Plains Culture and History
	AMST 3000	Cultures of Nature <C1, W2>
	ANTH 4310	Environmental Anthropology
	ENG 2400	Introduction to Folklore
	ENG 4480	Regional Literature of the US: The West
	ENR 2000	Environment and Society <W2, C2, G1; G>
	G&R 1050	Introduction to Natural Resources <C2, G1>
	HIST 4475	American Environmental History <C2>
	PHCY 4380	Ethnopharmacology <C2, G1>

Ethics - Considering right and wrong via critical and systematic thinking and doing.

	PHIL 2330	Environmental Ethics <C1; CH>
	PHIL 2340	Natural Resource Ethics
	PHIL 3300	Ethical Theory <C1>
	PHIL 3350	History of Moral Philosophy
	PHIL 4340	Topics in Environmental Ethics
	RELI 2060	Nature and Spirit <C1>

Policy - Exploring laws, regulations, and public discourse in American society.

	AGEC 4710	Natural Resource Law and Policy <C2>
	AIST 4340	Natural Resource Management on Western Reservations
	ECON 2400	Economics of the Environment <C2, W2>
	ENR 4900	Environment and Natural Resource Policy Practice <C2, W3; CS, WC>
	G&R 4040	Conservation of Natural Resources <C2, G1; CS, G>
	G&R 4400	Public Land Management