Environmental Education Minor for Teachers

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This minor is administered by the Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management Discipline.

Open only to students seeking teacher certification.

Consists of at least 22 credits.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION/LICENSURE DISCLOSURE (NC-SARA)

The United States Department of Education requires institutions that provide distance education to disclose information for programs leading to professional certification or licensure about whether each program meets state educational requirements for initial licensure or certification. Following is this disclosure information for this program:

The requirements of this program meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Wisconsin

The requirements of this program do not meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Not applicable

The requirements of this program have not been determined if they meet Certification/Licensure in the following states:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming; District of Columbia; American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

Environmental education core

A minimum of 3 credits from

Environmental science core, 9 credits

Electives, 3-4 credits

Choose from:

BIOL 305 - General Ecology 3 cr.
HIST 280 - American Environmental History 3 cr.
NRES 200 - Introduction to Sustainable Communities 3 cr.
NRES 220 - Global Climate Change and Water Resources, 10th Century to Present 3 cr. or
WATR 220 - Global Climate Change and Water Resources, 10th Century to Present 3 cr.
NRES 324 - Invasive and Exotic Species 3 cr. or
WATR 324 - Invasive and Exotic Species 3 cr.
NRES 369 - Interpretive Media 4 cr.
NRES 441 - Climate Change Implications, Policies, and Solutions 3 cr.
PHIL 380 - Environmental Ethics 3 cr.
Additional courses from cores above
Other courses approved by adviser

Note

See information about the Professional Education Program in the School of Education section of this catalog, and information about Secondary Education for teacher certification in the Secondary/K-12 Education Curriculum for Teacher Certification section of this catalog.