Subs and Exceptions
For a course that is not pre-approved as a substitution, to be considered as one of the of the seven required electives, it must:
1. Be thematically within the field of Environmental Studies, and
2. Require similar course assignments to those required in most upper-division ENVS courses (exams and/or a substantial research paper/project, in addition to attendance, participation and class assignments/problem sets/journals).
3. Students must also include a syllabus and major coursework done for the class, such as papers and exams.
The approval of such requests will be considered within the scope of the student's entire study plan.
Single and double majors (combined majors - no substitutions offered ) may substitute up to two courses when planning the seven required electives. These two substitutions may be drawn from:
The substitution requests must be petitioned in writing and are subject to approval by the Department (petition forms are available outside the Department office).
Listed below are courses that have been pre-approved and do not require a written substitution petition.
Note: Many of these courses have restricted enrollment and/or prerequisites. You MUST contact each department to determine your eligibility.
American Studies 109A Technology and American Culture |
Anthropology 111 Human Ecology 127 Ethnographies of Capitalism 146 Anthropology and the Environment |
| Biology(Ecology & Evolutionary) 108 Marine Ecology 109 Evolution 112/L Ornithology 114/L Herpetology 117/L Systematic Botany 120/L Marine Botany 122/L Invertebrate Zoology 127/L Ichthyology 129/L Biology of Marine Mammals 145 Plant Ecology 147 Community Ecology 150 Ecological Field Methods 155 Freshwater Ecology 161 Kelp Forest Ecology 163 Ecol. of Reefs, Mangroves, Seagrasses 165 Marine Conservation Biology 168 Biological Oceanography |
Chemistry 130 Principles in Environ. Toxicology |
| Community Studies 100T Agriculture, Food & Social Justice 100P Resistance and Social Movements 149 Political Economy of Food and Agriculture 168 Globalization and its Discontents |
Earth Sciences 100/L Vertebrate Paleontology 101/L The Fossil Record 102 Marine Geology 104 Geologic Hazards 105 Coastal Geology 107 Remote Sensing of the Environment 109/ L Elements of Field Geology 110A Evolution of the Earth 110B Earth as a Chemical System 110C The Dynamic Earth 116 Hydrology 119 Introduction to Scientific Computing 121 The Atmosphere 128 Isotopes: Fundamentals and Applications in Earth & Marine Sciences 140 Geomorphology 146 Groundwater 148 Glaciology |
| Economics 170 Environmental Economics 171 Natural Resource Economics 175 Energy Economics |
Education 185C Intro to Teaching in Content Area: Science |
| Environmental Toxicology 101 Sources and Fates of Pollutants 144 Groundwater Contamination 145 Medical Geology 151 Scientific Writing and Presentation |
History 108 Social Movements in Historical Perspective 125 California History 142 World History of Science 145 Gender, Colonialism, and Third-World Feminisms |
| Feminist Studies 127 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) 132 Gender and Post Coloniality |
Latin American & Latino Studies 126A Global Capitalism and Community Restructuring 140 Rural Mexico in Crisis 143J Global Political Economy 145 Grassroots Social Change in Latin America 147 Land and Peasants in the Americas 148 Workers in the Americas 160 North American Integration: Post-NAFTA 164 Environmental Justice 167 Amazonian Societies & the Environment 168 Economic History of Latin America 170 Indigenous Struggles in the Americas 178 Gender, Transnationalism, and Globalization |
| Legal Studies 128M International Law and Global Justice 131 Wildlife,Wilderness and the Law 132 California Water, Law & Policy 135 Native Peoples Law 137 International Environmental Law & Policy |
Politics 106 Marxism as a Method 114 Thinking Green: Pol., Ethics & Pol. Econ 124 Politics, Poverty and Inequality in America 140C Latin American Politics0 148 Social Movements 160B Global Organization 160C Security, Conflict, Violence, War 174 Global Environment Politics 178 US Foreign Economic Policy |
| Ocean Sciences 101 The Marine Environment 102 Oceans & Climate: Past, Present & Future 130 Biological Oceonography 156 Marine Plankton 157 Ecology Reefs, Mangroves, Seagrasses |
Science Communication (offered only in summer) 104A/B Field Sketching 106A Intro. to Natural Science Illustration 107 Natural Science Illustration - Color 109 Botanical Illustration 110 Zoological Illustration |
| Sociology 125 Society and Nature 130 Sociology of Food 173 Water 179/L Nature, Poverty & Progress: Dilemmas of Develop. & Environment 181 Sociology of Place: The California Coast 185 Environmental Inequality |
Writing 102 The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences 103 Rhetoric of the Natural Sciences 109 Argument and Practical Reasoning 110A Writing in the Professions 167 Making the News |
| UCDC (see Politics Dept. http://politics.ucsc.edu/ for more information) Courses need to be approved directly through the ENVS department | |