NOTICE Important Updates regarding the ECORES Minor (as of July 2025)

Unfortunately, the cornerstone set of courses in the ECORES Minor, the Restoration Ecology Capstone (ESRM 462, 463, and 464) is no longer taught by SEFS; its last offering was the 2024-2025 academic year.

In the short term, students currently in the minor who wish to remain in the minor will need to substitute 10 additional eligible course credits to replace the 10 credits of the Capstone if they want to graduate in the ECORES minor.  The eligible classes have been identified below, in the list of Minor Requirements.  Students who do not wish to remain in the minor will need to drop this minor with the Academic Advisor for their major.

We have also submitted a proposal to suspend admission to the ECORES minor, which is pending UW Approval.

Ecological Restoration (ECORES) Minor Academic Requirements

The minor in Ecological Restoration (ECORES) seeks to prepare students to address the complex relationships of human communities and ecological sustainability. The minor is a tri-campus initiative between UW Bothell, UW Seattle and UW Tacoma. Students may, but are not required to, take courses from more than one campus to earn the minor.  UW Bothell and UW Tacoma students sign up for their campus’s version of this minor.  All students must have declared a major and have completed at least 45 college credits to declare any UW minor.

Declare this minor through your major’s academic advisor.

Minor Requirements

The minor requires at least 25 credits. The course breakdown is:

• Introduction to Restoration Ecology: Either ESRM/ENVIR 362 (5), BES 362 (5), or TESC 362 (now T BIOL 362 (7))
• Restoration Ecology Capstone (10): Either ESRM 462, 463, 464; or BES 462, 463, 464; or TESC 462, 463, 464 (this series last offered during the 2024-2025 school year).
  • Students who were not able to complete the Capstone can still graduate with the ECORES minor if they substitute 10 additional approved electives in place of the Capstone.  These courses can either be additional courses from the ECORES elective list below OR from the REEH Required Elective list available under REEH Option Course Requirements section on the Restoration Ecology web page.
  • Once the 10 substitute credits have been identified, all ECORES minors must reach out to sefsadv@uw.edu with their list of substitute courses, as SEFS Advising must update your Minor Audit in order for you to graduate.
• Approved Electives from ECORES Elective List below to bring the total to at least 25 credits.
• No more than 10 credits in the minor may overlap with a student’s major.
• At least 15 credits must be completed at UW Seattle.

Access to Courses for Non-ESRM Major Students

Most ESRM-prefixed courses are restricted to ESRM Majors only through Period 1 registration every quarter.

Approved Elective List

UW Seattle Courses

BIOL/ESRM 331: Landscape Plant Recognition (3)
BIOL 446: Plant Classification and Identification (5)

ESRM 325: Environmental Applications of Plants: Bioenergy and Bioremediation (3)
ESRM/BIOL 331: Landscape Plant Recognition (3)
ESRM 411 Plant Propagation: Principles and Practice (3)
ESRM 412 Native Plant Production (3)
ESRM 415 Terrestrial Invasion Ecology (5)
ESRM 425 Ecosystem Management (5)
ESRM 430: Remote Sensing the Environment (5)
ESRM 473 Restoration in North America (5)
ESRM 474 Restoration Problem Solving: Ecological Engineering (5) (AU14 or After)
ESRM 479 Restoration Design (5)

FISH 428 Stream and Watershed Restoration (5)

UW Bothell Courses

BEARTH 317 Soils in the Environment (5)
BEARTH 318 Hydrogeology (5)
BEARTH 321 Geomorphology (5)

BES 303: Environmental Monitoring Practicum (5)
BES 312 Ecology (5)
BES 316 Ecological Methods (5)
BES 330 Limnology (5)
BES 440 Remote Sensing of the Environment (5)
BES 460 Water Quality (5)
BES 485 Conservation Biology (5)
BES 486 Watershed Ecology and Management (5)
BES 489 Pacific Northwest Ecosystems (5)

BIS 244 Wetlands Discovery (2-3)
BIS 319 Public Arts and Ecological Restoration (5)
BIS 342 Geographic Information Systems (5)
BIS 343 Geographic Visualization (5)
BIS 360 Pollinator Diversity and Conservation (5)
BIS 390 Ecology and the Environment (5)
BIS 391 Environmental History of the Pacific Northwest Bioregion (5)
BIS 408 Critical Physical Geography (5) (Au21 or After)
BIS 442 Advanced GIS Analysis and Applications (5, max. 15)

UW Tacoma Courses

T BIOL 232 Issues in Biological Conservation (5)
T CHEM 333 Environmental Chemistry (6)
T GIS 311 Maps and GIS (6)
TESC 345 Pollution and Public Policy (5)
T BIOL 432 Forest Ecology Field Studies (7/12) (WI00-SU14)
T LAW 339 Washington Environmental Law (5)

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