An Environmental Initiative at Miami University
Environmental Principles & Practice Co-major
Miami University offers 2 environmental co-majors — Environmental Science and Environmental Principles & Practice. A student taking a co-major must also complete a primary major in one of the divisions at Miami. Completion of the co-major satisfies the Miami Plan thematic sequence requirement. A number of departments and academic units participate in the environmental science co-major programs. For more information, contact:
- Dr. James Rubenstein
- (rubensjm@muohio.edu)
Program Administrator & Chief Advisor Geography Department
(513) 529-5025 or (513) 529-5254
The Environmental Principles & Practice Co-major emphasizes human-nature interaction in understanding environmental patterns and processes. If you are primarily interested in management and policy specializations, such as business, political science, anthropology, or other social sciences, this co-major complements your major especially well.
Degree Requirements
- Biological Science (1 of these)
- BOT 131 Plants, Humanity, and Environment
BOT 171 Ecology of North America
ZOO 121 Environmental Biology
WCP 121 Natural Systems I
WCP 221 Natural Systems III - Physical Science (1 of these)
- GLG 121 Environmental Geology and GLG 115.L Geology Lab
GEO 121 Global Physical Environments - Economics
- ECO 201 Microeconomics
- Social Science (1 of these)
- ATH 175 Peoples of the World
GEO 101 Global Forces and Local Diversity
GEO 111 World Regional Geography - Political Science
- POL 241 American Political System
- Statistics (1 of these)
- STA 261 Statistics
DSC 205 Business Statistics - Environmental Science (required course)
- ENV 274 Introduction to Environmental Principles
- Advanced Courses (4 of these)
- AMS/HST 397 American Environmental History
ARC 312 Principles of Environmental Systems
ARC 413 Environmental Systems
ARC 414 Environmental Controls
ARC 450 Environmental Futures
ATH 371 Anthropology of National Parks
ATH 426 Culture and Environment in Brazil
ATH 455 Heredity, Environment, and Human Society
ATH 471 Ecological Anthropology
ATH/GTY 476 Environment and Aging
ATH 497 Socio-Ecology of Primates
BOT/ZOO 351 Environmental Education
BOT 401 Plant Ecology
BOT/GEO 431 Global Plant Diversity
BOT/GEO 432 Ecoregions of North America
BOT/ZOO 467 Conservation Biology
BOT/BUS/GEO/GLG/ZOO 494 Sustainability Perspectives in Resources and Business
BOT/GEO 496 Biodiversity of Kenya
BOT 499.A Tropical Flora of the Bahamas
BOT 499.N Natural History of Nova Scotia
BWS/HST 495 Modern African Env History
CHM 491 Chemistry in Societal Issues
ECO 434 Environmental Economics
GEO 333 Natural Hazards
GEO 421 Climatology
GEO 424/GLG 454 Geomorphology
GEO 425 Hydrogeography
GEO 426 Watershed Management
GEO 428 Soil Geography
GEO/WMS 436 Women, Gender, and the Environment
GEO 437 Regional Land Use Capability
GLG 335 Ice Age Earth
GLG 401 Global Climate Change
GLG 402 Geomicrobiology
GLG 408 Introduction to Hydrogeology
GLG 412 Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica
GLG 413 Tropical Marine Ecology
GLG 414 Coastal Ecology of the Bahamas
GLG 415 Coral Reef Ecology
GLG 491 Geochemistry of Natural Water
GLG 496 Isotopes in Environmental Processes
IES 414 Latin American Environmental Affairs
IES 431 Environmental Science
IES 450 Environmental Law
IES 499.B Culture and Environment in Brazil
LAS 414 Latin American Environmental Affairs
MBI 475 Microbial Ecology
PHL 376 Environmental Philosophy
POL 363 Administrative Law
WCP 401 Global Climate Change
ZOO 333 Field Ecology
ZOO 462 Environmental Toxicology
ZOO 463 Limnology
ZOO 497 Socio-Ecology of Primates - Environmental Practice (required course)
- ENV 474 Environmental Practice
- Extramural Perspective on the Environment
- * Extramural environmental experience during summer of sophomore or junior year, such as workshop, internship, co-op, employment, or other experience
* Must be approved in advance by Advisory Committee and Advisor