Environmental Studies Major

Environmental Studies Courses (four)

One Additional Interdisciplinary Course Focused on the Environment

One full-credit course or two half-credit courses from the following list:

• CORE 114S - Ecology, Ethics, and Wilderness
• CORE 119S - Environmental Activism, Science, and the Arts
• CORE 123S - Climate Change and Human History
• CORE 128S - Global Change and You
• CORE 159S - Ecology and the Quality of the Environment
• CORE 178S - Water
• CORE 181S - Cooperation & the Environment
• ENST 233 - Global Environmental Health Issues (0.50 credit)
• ENST 240 - Sustainability: Science and Analysis
• ENST 291 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
• ENST 391 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
• ENST 491 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
• ENST 309 - Australian Environmental Issues (Study Group)
• ENST 313
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  ASIA 313
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  SOCI 313 Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
    
• ENST 316 - Nature, Technology, and the Human Prospect
• ENST 321 - Global Environmental Justice (if it is not used to fulfill the Environmental Studies requirement)
• GEOG 105 - Climate and Society
• GEOG 323
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  REST 323 - Arctic Transformations
    
• HIST 302 - Global Toxic History (TR)

Methods Course

One full-credit course or two half-credit courses from the following list, or with permission of the program director another methods course appropriate for the student’s chosen field of study:

• BIOL 320 - Biostatistics and
  BIOL 320L
    
• ECON 375 - Applied Econometrics
• ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
• GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 250 - Research Methods
• GEOG 251 - Media Frames and Content Analysis (0.50 credit)
• GEOG 347 - Satellite Image Analysis (0.50 credit)
• GEOL 253 - Environmental Geochemistry and Analysis and
  GEOL 253L
    
• GEOL 320 - Techniques of Field Geology
• GEOL 370 - Geoinformatics
• HIST 199 - History Workshop
• PHIL 225 - Logic I
• RELG 352 - Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
• SOCI 251 - Media Frame and Content Analysis (0.50 credit)

Courses Providing Breadth of Analytical Perspectives (three)

Focus in a Particular Field of Study

Four courses (or a combination of full- and partial-credit courses, not including labs, that add up to four full-course credits) that provide depth in a field of study. No more than one of these courses can be at an introductory level, and at least one must be at an advanced level. These courses are in addition to those used to satisfy the requirements listed above. With permission of the program director any four courses that combine to provide depth in a field of study may be used, but normally all of the four courses used to satisfy this requirement will be from the same department or from the same one of the lists of requirements in:

With permission of the program director, this requirement may be waived if a student has a second major or a minor.

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Environmental Studies  program page.