Environmental Impact and Sustainability Minor
This interdisciplinary minor provides a flexible means by which a student can tailor a set of courses to explore environmental issues from unique perspectives offered through several different disciplines. This will enable a student to gain a broad, multidisciplinary comprehension as well as a competitive skill set applicable towards the growing job market dealing with environmental and sustainability issues.
Total Semester Hours: 18*
A. Core requirements (6+ semester hours)
Students must complete a core which is composed of two courses from the list below, one of which must be from BIO**.
B. Twelve semester hours, from three different departments**:
Footnotes:
* No more than six credit hours in this minor may be counted as also fulfilling requirement in a student's major program of study.
** Up to six credit hours of courses listed as Core selections may be taken for Elective credit hours provided that the credit hours are not already being used for the Core requirement.
Information sourced from the 2025-2026 EIU Undergraduate Catalog.