Environmental Policy and Planning, Minor

This is the first version of the 2025–26 General Catalog. Please check back regularly for changes. The final edition and the historical PDF will be published during the fall semester.

The undergraduate minor in environmental policy and planning requires a minimum of 18 s.h., including 12 s.h. in University of Iowa courses numbered 3000 or above. Students must maintain a grade-point average of at least 2.00 in all courses for the minor and in all UI courses for the minor. Coursework in the minor may not be taken pass/nonpass.

The minor in environmental policy and planning requires the following coursework.

Requirements Hours
Foundation Courses 9
Electives 9

Foundation Courses

Course # Title Hours
Both of these:
SEES:1070Contemporary Environmental Issues3
POLI:3111American Public Policy3
One of these:
AMST:1290/GHS:1290/HIST:1290/NAIS:1290Native American Foods and Foodways3
ANTH:3103Environment and Culture3

Electives

Course # Title Hours
At least 9 s.h. from these:
SEES:3250/CPH:3400Health, Work, and the Environment3
SEES:3315Ecosystem Ecology4
SEES:3350Urban Ecology3
SEES:3400Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice3
SEES:3520/IGPI:3520GIS for Environmental Applications3
SEES:3540/IGPI:3540Geographic Visualization3
SEES:3760/GHS:3760Hazards and Society3
SEES:3780/GHS:3780/HIST:3240/POLI:3431U.S. Energy Policy in Global Context3
SEES:3800Environmental Policy3
SEES:3920/URP:3001Planning Livable Cities3
SEES:3940/ECON:3750/URP:3350Transportation Economics3
SEES:4750/URP:4750Environmental Impact Analysis3
SEES:4770/AFAM:4770/GHS:4770Environmental Justice3
ECON:3625/URP:3135Environmental and Natural Resource Economics3
HIST:3230American Environmental History3
PBAF:3117/POLI:3117Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration3
POLI:2417Comparative Environmental Policy3
POLI:3100American State Politics3
POLI:3102The U.S. Congress3
POLI:3110Local Politics3
POLI:3118Interest Groups3
POLI:3424Global Development3
URP:3134/ECON:3640Regional and Urban Economics3