Departments & Programs

Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Biodiversity and Sustainability Concentration Courses

Required Core Courses

1. BIOL-L 350 Environmental Biology
2. One of the following two courses: GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation or  SPEA-E 457 Introduction to Conservation Biology
3. One of the following options: BIOL-L 479 Evolution and Ecology, or both BIOL-L 473 Ecology and BIOL-L 318 Evolution

• ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
• ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation

• BIOL-B 300 Vascular plants
• BIOL-B 351 Fungi
• BIOL-B 364 Summer Flowering Plants
• BIOL-B 368 Ethnobotany
• BIOL-B 371 Ecological Plant Physiology
• BIOL-L 318 Evolution
• BIOL-L 369 Heredity Evolution and Society
• BIOL-L 376 Biology of Birds
• BIOL-L 433 Tropical Biology
• BIOL-L 472 Microbial Ecology
• BIOL-Z 373 Entomology
• BIOL-Z 374 Invertebrate Zoology
• BIOL-Z 406 Vertebrate Zoology
• BIOL-Z 460 Animal Behavior
• BIOL-Z 476 Biology of Fishes

• GEOG-G 451 Water Resources
• GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

• GEOL-G 308 Paleontology and Geology of Indiana
• GEOL-G 329 Introductory Field Experience in Environmental Science
• GEOL-G 341 Natural History of Coral Reefs
• GEOL-G 415 Geomorphology
• GEOL-G 429 Field Geology in the Rocky Mountains
• GEOL-G 451 Principles of Hydrogeology

• SPEA-E 332 Introduction to Applied Ecology
• SPEA-E 363 Environmental Management
• SPEA-E 422 Urban Forest Management
• SPEA-E 456 Lake and Watershed Management
• SPEA-E 460 Fisheries and Wildlife and Management
• SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation

• SPH-R 323 Ecosystem Management
• SPH-R 350 Sustainable Tourism
• SPH-R 385 Wilderness and Protected Lands

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