{"id":192,"date":"2023-03-24T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/environmental-studies\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:45:27","slug":"environmental-studies-minor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/environmental-studies\/environmental-studies-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Studies Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>A minor in Environmental Studies is a great way to augment your studies in other fields and disciplines. To find out more about how a minor in Environment Studies could complement you&#8217;re other academic and career goals, please contact <a href=\"sappleba@usc.edu\">Dr. Scott Applebaum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Required Core Courses:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong>ENST 100<\/strong> Introduction to Environmental Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENST 320a<\/strong> Water and Soil Sustainability<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENST 320b<\/strong> Energy and Air Sustainability<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>One of the Following Elective Courses:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BISC 103Lx\u00a0<\/strong>General Biology for the Environment and Life<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHEM 103Lx\u00a0<\/strong>General Chemistry for the Environment and Life<\/p>\n<p><strong>GEOL 160L<\/strong> Introduction to Geosystems*<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>*ENST 100 is a corequisite for GEOL 160L.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Take 8 Additional Units from Any Upper-Division ENST Course<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><i>The Environmental Studies Program acknowledges our\u00a0presence on the ancestral and unceded\u00a0territory\u00a0of the Tongva\/Gabrielino\/Kizh people and\u00a0their neighbors, the Chumash, Tataviam,\u00a0Kitanemuk, Serrano, Cahuilla,\u00a0Payomkawichum, Acjachemen, Ipai-Tipai,\u00a0Kumeyaay, and Quechan peoples.\u00a0Indigenous stewardship and rightful\u00a0claims to these lands have never been\u00a0voluntarily relinquished nor legally\u00a0extinguished. We pay our respect to the\u00a0members and elders of these\u00a0communities &#8211; past, present, and future &#8211;\u00a0who remain stewards and advocates of\u00a0this region.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Environmental Studies Minor - Environmental Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Environmental Studies (ENVS) degrees are built on specialized natural and social science courses and a set of interdisciplinary courses focusing on sustainability. 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