Environmental Studies Program
Environmental Studies Major
The Environmental Studies major involves
13-16 courses from three categories as follows:
A) Six core courses required of
all majors:
ENVS 101 People and the Environment
ENVS 102 Science and the Environment
ENVS 240 Environmental Politics and
Decision Making
ENVS 260 Environmental Ethics
(cross-listed with PHIL 260)
ENVS 301 Environmental Practicum (fall
semester junior year)
ENVS 401 Senior Project or ENVS 451 Senior Research (fall
semester senior year)
B) Three distribution courses,
one from each of ENVS-listed courses in the Humanities, Social Sciences and
Natural Sciences. The following courses fulfill the distribution requirements:
Humanities
ENGL291 Nature and the Literary Imagination
ENGL 368 Wilderness and Landscape
ENVS 290 Cities Ancient and Modern
HIST 283 Plagues and Peoples
HIST 390 Nature’s Conquest: The Columbian-American Exchange
HNRS 146 Farmscape
REL 205 Religion and Nature
Social Sciences
ECON 240 Economic Growth and
Environmental Sustainability
ECON 427 Environmental Economics
ENVS 196 Varieties of
Environmentalism
ENVS 262 Environmental Dispute
Resolution
ENVS 284 Environmental Planning
and Design
ENVS 334 Sustainable Agriculture
POSC 328 Politics of the Global
Environment
PSYC 225 Environmental
Psychology
SA 321 Gender and Change in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Natural Sciences
BIOL 202 Ecology and Evolution
CHEM212 Environmental Chemistry
ENVS 274 Ecosystem Management
GEOS200 Environmental Geology
Because
other courses are occasionally offered that fulfill these requirements, an
up-to-date list is available from the Environmental Studies Program office and
on the Program website.
C) A concentration that can be
completed in one of three ways: a disciplinary minor (with demonstrable
relevance to ENVS); a second major (with demonstrable relevance to ENVS); a
self-designed interdisciplinary concentration (typically 6 courses and a year
of senior research). Obtain information concerning ENVS concentrations from the
ENVS Program office or check the ENVS website.
Notes: One course
can be double counted among the Core, Concentration and Distribution
requirements. Up to five courses counting toward the ENVS
major may count as General Education (GE) courses.
Environmental Studies Minor
Students wishing
to minor in Environmental Studies must complete six courses: ENVS 101, ENVS
102, ENVS 240, ENVS 260, and two electives cross-listed with ENVS that are
outside the student's major field of study.