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Coastal Studies Minor
Director: Drew Ferrier
Coordinator: Ronald Albaugh
The Coastal Studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary view of environmental issues that confront coastal habitats and communities. The minor is largely travel-based and designed to provide students with both textbook and first-hand knowledge of environmental challenges currently facing coastal regions.
Required courses (block-scheduled during fall semesters)
| ESHN | 210 | Coastal Oceanography |
| ENSP | 212 | Coastal Community Ecology |
| ENSP | 370 | Coastal Studies Practicum |
| INST | 311 | The Chesapeake Bay: Human Impacts on a Natural System |
Choose one:
| ESHN | 268 | The Culture and Literature of Coastal Environments |
| ENHN | 368 | American Landscapes: Environmental Literature in the United States |
| ENSP | 201 | Contemporary Environmental Controversies |
| ENSP | 299 | Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy |
| BIOL | 348 | Tropical Marine Ecology |
| ENSP | 380 | Coastal Studies Field Experience |