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Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Arts

Requirements for a major in Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies is an applied interdisciplinary field that draws heavily upon the Social Science disciplines with inputs from the Natural Sciences and Humanities to address problems that arise in the interaction of Social, Political and Cultural systems and the Environment.

Required Courses (39 Hours)

BIOL 102Environmental Biology

3
BIOL 105Introductory Biology Laboratory I

1
CHEM 101Modern Chemistry

4
CSCI 210Scientific Computing & Problem Solving

3
ECON 101Survey of Economics

3
ECON 350Environmental & Natural Resource Economics

3
ENVR 210Introduction to Environmental Science

3
ENVS 310Environmental Policy & Law

3
ENVS 315Environmental Impact & Resource Assessment

3
GEOL 101Introduction to Environmental Geology

4
GEOL 304/GIS 304Introduction to GIS Mapping & Analysis

4
MATH 223Statistics for Natural & Social Sciences

3
PHIL 321Environmental Ethics

3

Electives: One of the following (3 Hours)

ENVS 233/RELI 233Religion & Nature

3
ENVS 311Politics of Global Ecology

3
ENVS 320Science, Technology & Society

3
ENVS 350Land Use Planning

3
LEAD 308Science & Public Policy

3
LEAD 333Leaders in Environmental Activism

3

Communication: One of the following (3 Hours)

WRIT 305Business Writing

3
WRIT 307Technical Writing

3

Experiential Learning (1 Hour)

ENVR 391Experiential Learning

1

Junior Core & Capstone (6 Hours)

BIOL 390Research Methods

3
ENVR 491Environmental Problem Solving I

1
ENVR 492Environmental Problem Solving II

2

Total Credit Hours: 52