Earth and Environmental Sciences Minor

The Department of Earth Sciences offers a minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences that provides a broad foundation and essential skills to complement other majors and prepare students to pursue a wide range of careers that require an understanding of Earth processes and management of natural resources.  Students in this minor are able to choose from a broad range of courses to accommodate their specific Earth and environmental science interests.

Students interested in the Earth and Environmental Sciences minor should contact matt.davis@unh.edu for more information. 

Academic policies related to Minors.

The Earth and Environmental Sciences minor typically is completed with five ESCI courses and may include research credits supervised by an Earth Sciences faculty member.

• Courses in the Earth and Environmental Sciences minor must include both introductory and more advanced ESCI courses.
• Strongly recommended introductory courses include ESCI 401 Dynamic Earth or ESCI 409 Geology and the Environment (students may not receive credit for both ESCI 401 and ESCI 409) and ESCI 402 Earth History.
• More advanced courses must include at least one at the 600 or 700 level.
• Specific courses in the program are selected in consultation with a minor advisor in the Department of Earth Sciences, with flexibility in approved courses to accommodate interests in different aspects of the geosciences.

Approved courses for the minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences