Ecology and Legacy MinorProgram Description
The Honors Integrated Minor in Ecology and Legacy focuses on human and nonhuman relationships in their ecosystems, and how these complicated entanglements manifest across place, population, and time. There is an urgent need for students who have multidisciplinary training and can think critically about how ecosystem well-being is intimately connected to societies and cultures. The integrated coursework offered through the Honors Integrated Minor in Ecology will prepare students to engage with broad issues of ecology, conservation, and environmental justice in their disciplines and/or professional areas with critical and systems-based thinking. Students will be introduced to diverse scientific and humanistic approaches to ecology that shape our understanding of “nature” and influence the past, current, and future formations of human and nonhuman relationships. Investigating these issues and concepts both in class and out in the field, students in the Honors Integrated Minor in Ecology will pursue place-based studies and practices to contextualize and orient their own ecological commitments.
Career Opportunities
The Ecology and Legacy Integrated Minor is beneficial to students of any major interested in interdisciplinary scholarship and environmental thought, and it produces students that are well-rounded applicants for any field. It provides students with a foundational ecological and environmental thought in the humanities, sciences, and fine arts and produces students that are critical and interdisciplinary thinkers and excellent writers. Students in every iteration of the minor gain valuable experience in the field that sets them apart from other job applicants.
Note: The Ecology and Legacy Minor is a cohort experience. Students apply and then commit to completing the entire minor in a pre-determined sequence. Please see the Honors website for current coursework schedules and learning abroad sites.
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Exploratory Classes
- HONOR 2110 - Honors Intellectual Traditions Through an Ecological Lens
- HONOR 2700 - Comparative Ecology and Species Interactions
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