(19-20 credits)
Director: Drew Ferrier
Coordinator: Ronald Albaugh
The coastal studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary view of environmental issues that confront coastal habitats and communities. The minor is largely travel-based and designed to provide students with both textbook and first-hand knowledge of environmental challenges currently facing coastal regions.
Required courses (block-scheduled during fall semesters - 13 credits):
- ESHN 210 Coastal Oceanography
- ENSP 212 Coastal Community Ecology
- ENSP 370 Coastal Studies Practicum
- INST 311 The Chesapeake Bay: Human Impacts on a Natural System
One elective offered as part of the Coastal Studies Semester (3-4 credits):
- ENHN 268 The Culture and Literature of Coastal Environments
- ENHN 368 American Landscapes: Environmental Literature in the United States
- ENSP 201 Contemporary Environmental Controversies
- ENSP 299 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy
One of the following (3 credits):
- BIOL 348 Tropical Marine Ecology
- ENSP 380 Coastal Studies Field Experience