Catalog Description

This description will appear in the 2009-10 undergraduate catalog.  For the old Environmental Management description, please click here.

Environmental Management Minor

Dr. Steven P. Frysinger, Coordinator
Phone: (540) 568-2710
E-mail: frysinsp@jmu.edu

The interdisciplinary Environmental Management minor prepares students to apply the principles of environmental science and engineering to contemporary environmental problems in natural resource, industrial, and public policy contexts. The minor is particularly suitable for students interested in professional careers in industrial environmental management, natural resources management, and environmental policy and planning. After fulfilling prerequisite requirements in biology and statistics, students pursue the minor by completing core courses and electives.

The Environmental Management minor strives to develop graduates who can apply science and technology to a broad range of practical environmental problems in a variety of professional settings. Students completing the minor are expected to be literate and competent in the sciences and mathematics underlying environmental problem-solving.

Co-curricular Activities and Organizations

  • Environmental Management Club (the Air and Waste Management Association student chapter)
  • JMU Center for Environment, Health and Safety (CEHS)

Minor Requirements

The Environmental Management minor requires a total of 29 credits, including prerequisite courses. The prerequisites must have been completed successfully before the student may be enrolled in the Environmental Management minor. Prerequisite courses may be fulfilled as part of the student's major.

Prerequisites Credit Hours Prerequisite
1) BIO 124, Ecology and Evolution 4 Yes
2) Complete 3 hours from one of the following:  3
MATH 220, Elementary Statistics
Yes
GISAT 251, Topics in Statistics for ISAT 
Yes
MATH 285, Data Analysis 
Yes
MATH 318, Introduction to Probability and Statistics 
Yes
MATH 307, Principles of Probability and Statistics   Yes

7

Minor Requirements Credit Hours Prerequisite
Required Courses

ISAT 320 and 321,  Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Technology I-II 6 Yes
CHEM 221, Concepts of Organic Chemistry*


3 Yes
ISAT 302, Instrumentation and Measurement of the Environment  1 None
ENVT 400,  Capstone Seminar: Environmental Problem Solving 3 Yes
Concentration

See below  9  

22 hours
*May also be fulfilled by CHEM 341-342 sequence.

Concentrations

Students completing the Environmental Management minor must concentrate in one of three areas, Natural Resources, Industrial Systems, or Environmental Policy, described below. Students should be aware that some of the listed courses may have additional prerequisites.

Natural Resources Prerequisites
  • ISAT 424: Natural Resource Management
 Yes
  • And choose two of the following courses:
BIO 456: Landscape Ecology Yes
BIO 457: Biological Applications of Geographic Information Systems Yes
BIO 459: Freshwater Ecology Yes
BIO 465: Environmental Toxicology Yes
CHEM 354: Environmental Chemistry Field Camp Yes
CHEM/GEOL 355: Geochemistry of Natural Waters Yes
GEOG 340: Biogeography Yes
GEOG 341: Wilderness Techniques Yes
GEOG 342: Management and Protection of Natural Resources None
GEOG 343: Wildlife Management None
ISAT 420: Environmental Analysis and Modeling Yes
ISAT 425: Environmental Hydrology Yes
ISAT 429: Sustainability: An Ecological Process Yes


Industrial Systems
  • ISAT 422: Environmental Management
 None
  •  And choose two of the following courses:
HTH 352: Environmental Health Yes
HTH 450: Epidemiology Yes
ISAT 423: Environmental Remediation Yes
ISAT 427: Industrial Hygiene Yes
ISAT 428: Industrial Ecology None


Environmental Policy
  •  ISAT 422: Environmental Management 
 None
or ISAT 424: Natural Resource Management Yes
  • ISAT 421: Environmental Policy and Regulation 
 Yes
  • And choose one of the following courses:
BIO 465. Environmental Toxicology Yes
ECON 305: Environmental Economics Yes
ECON 340: Economics of Natural Resources Yes
GEOG 325: Environmental Ethics None
GEOG/ISAT 429. Sustainability, An Ecological Process Yes
HIST 427. US Environmental History Yes
ISAT 420. Environmental Analysis and Modeling Yes
ISAT 423. Environmental Remediation Yes
ISAT 471. Transportation: Energy, Environment, and Society None
ISAT 472. Transportation: Air Quality Monitoring and Regulation Yes
SCOM 354. Communication, Environment, and Environmentalism None
SOCI 311. Sociology of the Environment None


Other courses may apply to the concentration by permission of the Coordinator.