Academic Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Jun 26, 2024  
Academic Bulletin 2024-2025

Environmental Writing Minor


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Faculty: Bakken, Caballero, Ferrence, Hart, Holmes, J. Miller, Votava

The Environmental Writing minor is a program in the Languages, Literature, and Culture Area of Study.

Environmental Writing Minor Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete an Environmental Writing Minor will:

  1. Analyze how language and literature shape our relationship to the nonhuman world.
  2. Communicate critically and creatively about environmental issues across difference, including different cultures, identities, histories, and disciplines.
  3. Read and write critically and creatively, demonstrating an understanding of forms, genres, conventions, and audiences.
  4. Write and revise with an understanding of process, including an ability to give and receive feedback.
  5. Locate, incorporate, and synthesize interdisciplinary environmental research into their work.

The Environmental Writing Minor

The Environmental Writing minor consists of 28 credits. At graduation, English minors must have a GPA of at least 2.0 in the minor. The calculation is based on the grades of all courses presented for the minor. Only the most recent grade is considered for courses that have been repeated. All courses presented for the minor must be taken on the letter-grade basis. Under exceptional circumstances, one course taken Credit/No Credit may be presented for the minor with permission of the Chair of the department. Typically, this exception is made when a student has taken a 100-level English course before declaring the English minor. A maximum of 4 transfer credits may be counted toward the minor requirements.  

Co-Requisite Courses:


Take three of the following (12 credits):


  • Any course in Biology
  • Any course in Environmental Science and Sustainability (ENVSC 110 , Introduction to Environmental Science strongly recommended)
  • Any course in Geology

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