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Nov 26, 2024
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2017-2018 University Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Environmental Studies Major
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The environmental studies major combines breadth in analytical perspectives, interdisciplinary courses in which students learn to combine analytical perspectives, and depth in a focus area of each student’s choosing. The courses below are required for the major.
For more information about the program, honors/high honors, transfer credit, etc., visit the Environmental studies program page.
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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:
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:
Courses Providing Breadth of Analytical Perspectives (three)
Earth Systems and Processes
One of the following courses:
Social Science Investigations of Environmental Issues
One of the following courses:
- ALST 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
- ANTH 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
- ASIA 313 - Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
- ECON 228 - Environmental Economics
- ECON 383 - Natural Resource Economics
- ENST 241 - Sustainability and Climate Action: Planning for Local Government
- ENST 313 - Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
- ENST 319 - Food
- ENST 340 - Environmental Cleanup: Methods and Regulation
- GEOG 121 - Earth, Society, and Sustainability
- GEOG 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
- GEOG 314 - Population Issues and Analysis
- GEOG 316 - Environmental and Public Health Geographies
- GEOG 319 - Population and Environment
- GEOG 320 - Globalization, Development, and Environment
- GEOG 321 - Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change
- GEOG 322 - Ecologies of the City
- GEOG 323 - Arctic Transformations
- GEOG 324 - International Environmental Policy
- GEOG 325 - Water and Society
- GEOG 326 - Environmental Hazards
- GEOG 328 - Sustainability and Natural Resources
- GEOG 329 - Environmental Security
- HIST 220 - The History of Nature and Capitol in the United States (US)
- PCON 329 - Environmental Security
- POSC 335 - U.S. Environmental Politics
- REST 323 - Arctic Transformations (PO)
- SOCI 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
- SOCI 313 - Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
- SOCI 314 - Population Issues and Analysis
- SOCI 319 - Food
- An additional course that satisfies the requirement with the permission of the program director
Arts and Humanities Courses Related to the Environment
One of the following courses:
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.
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