Coordinating Faculty: David Smith, Lawrence Tanner
The Natural Systems Science Minor, like the NSS major, is a multi-disciplinary science curriculum, although necessarily of more limited scope. The selection of courses below is entirely self-contained, i.e. there are no prerequisite courses not included on the list required for the program. Thus, students from other disciplines need only complete the 17-19 credit hours of coursework described below to receive credit for the minor.
| Course Number and Title | Credit Hours |
| BIO 191 General Biology I (either/or) | 4 |
| BIO 128 Global Ecosystems: Costa Rica | 4 |
| NSS 121 Global Resources (either/or) | 3 |
| BIO 126 Global Environment: Iceland | 3 |
| NSS 205 Physical Geology | 4 |
any two of the following: |
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| BIO 230 General Ecology | 4 |
| NSS 320 Earth’s Surface | 4 |
| BIO/NSS 335 Biodiversity | 3 |
| BIO 458 Global System Science | 3 |
Total Credit Hours |
17-19 |