Global Environmental Politics

The Minor in Global Environmental Politics (GEP) is a multidisciplinary program that combines courses from the programs of Geography and Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Development Studies. In combining these programs, the Minor is designed to expose students to the intersections between the study of:

• international politics
• global governance
• international development
• human geography and the
• environment

Students will gain an understanding of pressing environmental issues and the international actors, structures and processes that inform contemporary global environmental politics.

Minor in Global Environmental Politics

Twenty-four (24) credit hours from the following courses:

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
At the 1000 level
Select six credits (no more than three credit hours can be from the same discipline) of the following:		6
GEOG 1100	Global Perspectives on Land and Life (Group D)
GEOG 1200	People, Place and Environment (Group D)
POLI 1250	Politics and Globalization
POLI 1260	Politics and Development: People, Ideas and Goods
At the 2000 level
Select six credits (no more than three credit hours can be from the same discipline) of the following:		6
GEOG 2312	Urban Geography (Group A)
GEOG 2341	Economic Geography (Group A)
GEOG 2349	Cultural Geography (Group A)
POLI 2383	International Relations I: Actors, Structures, Processes
POLI 2381	Comparative Politics: Political Regimes and Government Institutions
GDST 2301	Global Development: History & Perspectives (formerly IDST 2301)
GDST 2401	Fair Trade and Free Trade (formerly IDST 2401)
At the 3000 level
Select six credits (no more than three credit hours can be from the same discipline) of the following:		6
GEOG 3304	Environmental Management (Group D)
GEOG 3380	Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (Group D)
POLI 3321	International Organizations
POLI 3316	Politics in the European Union
GDST 2302	Global Development: Policies and Issues (formerly IDST 2302)
GDST 3490	The Everyday Politics of Global Environmental Problems
At the 4000 level
Select six credits (no more than three credit hours can be from the same discipline) of the following:		6
Select one GEOG-4000 level course selected from Group A or D
POLI/GDST 4402	Model United Nations
GDST 4470	Environment and Development (formerly IDST 4470)
Total Credit Hours		24