Updated 2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog | 20245

Environmental Communication, B.S. major

A total of 120 semester credits are needed for the Environmental Communication B.S. degree and include the following:

• 40 upper division credits (level 3000/4000)
• 59 required major core credits 
• Completion of Core Curriculum credits (Minnesota Transfer Curriculum [MnTC] Goal Areas 1-10) - required for all baccalaureate degrees
• Completion of BSU Focus and Nisidotaading Course Requirements

Required Credits: 59
Required GPA: 2.50

I REQUIRED COURSES

Complete the following courses:

• COMM 3400 Environmental Communication (3 credits)
• ENVR 2000 Introduction to Environmental Science (3 credits)
• ENVR 3880 Environmental Controversies (2 credits)
• MASC 2243 Video Editing (3 credits)
• MASC 2460 Digital Photography (3 credits)
• MASC 2850 Media Writing I (3 credits)
• MASC 3260 Public Relations (3 credits)
• MASC 3270 Media and Social Change (3 credits)
• MASC 3450 Advanced Field Production (3 credits)
• MASC 3500 Media Design (3 credits)
• MASC 3720 Media Writing II (3 credits)
• MASC 4840 Portfolio (3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• COMM 3120 Communication in a Diverse Society (3 credits)
• SOWK 2110 Intercultural Communication (3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• ENVR 3800 Sustainability Analytics & Modeling (3 credits)
• ENVR 4220 Sampling and Analysis (4 credits)
• GEOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• ENVR 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
• ENVR 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
  or INST 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
• ENVR 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
• ENVR 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
  or INST 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
• ENVR 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• ENVR 3040 Environmental Economics (3 credits)
• ENVR 3600 Environmental Justice and Sustainability (3 credits)
• ENVR 4210 Environmental Law and Policy (3 credits)
• ENVR 4610 Sustainability: Theory and Practice (4 credits)
• ENVR 4260 Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Community Development (3 credits)
• GEOG 3532 Political Ecology (3 credits)
• POL 3230 Environmental Politics (3 credits)

Select one of the following courses (3 credits):

• ENVR 4970 Internship (3 credits)
• MASC 4970 Internship (1-12 credits)

II REQUIRED ELECTIVES

Select 9 credits of electives from the following
courses:
Electives chosen must meet departmental approval.

• ENVR 2925 People of the Environment: Sustainability Perspective (3 credits)
• ENVR 3700 Natural Resource Management (3 credits)
• ENVR 3840 Wetlands Ecology (3 credits)
• ENVR 4050 Geochemistry (3 credits)
• ENVR 4110 Environmental Chemistry (3 credits)
• ENVR 4200 Wastewater Treatment (3 credits)
• ENVR 4240 Waste Management (4 credits)
• ENVR 4400 Environmental Microbiology (3 credits)
• ENVR 4500 Environmental Toxicology (4 credits)
• GEOG 3125 Weather and Climate (3 credits)
• GEOG 3226 Cartography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3231 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3232 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3255 Introduction to Remote Sensing (3 credits)
• GEOG 3400 Economic Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 4140 Landscape Ecology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3211 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3212 Hydrogeology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3400 Glacial and Pleistocene Geology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3500 Topics in Paleontology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3600 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (3 credits)
• GEOL 3700 Environmental Geophysics (3 credits)

Required Communication Elective (choose 1 course from):

• BIOL 3337 Science Communication (3 credits)
• COMM 1090 Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 credits)
• COMM 2100 Career and Professional Communication (3 credits)
• COMM 3500 Communication and Conflict (3 credits)
• COMM 3700 Persuasion and Communication (3 credits)
• MASC 3150 Photojournalism (3 credits)
• MASC 3600 Social Media Marketing (3 credits)
• MASC 3900 Topics in Mass Communication (1-3 credits)
• MASC 4220 Multimedia Marketing (3 credits)