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Environmental Studies Majors
Required major courses (41 credits):
Environmental Studies:
ENVR 150: Introduction to Environmental Studies (4)
ENVR 395: Research Seminar (4)
ENVR 397: Internship in Environmental Studies (1)
Science:
MATH 124: Probability and Statistical Inference (4) or Applied Behavioral Statistics (4)
ENVR 175: Integrated Environmental Science I (4)
ENVR 275: Integrated Environmental Science II (4)
BIOL 334: General Ecology (4)
Social Science:
ECON 111: Introduction to Economics (4)
ECON 318: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (4)
Humanities:
PHIL 243: Environmental Ethics (4)
HIST 360: U.S. Environmental History (4)
Major electives (12 credits):
Three courses total, drawn from at least two of the following groups; only one course below the 300 level may count toward this requirement.
Environmental Studies:
ENVR 200A: Environmental Art and Architecture (4)
ENVR 215: Environmental Learning Community (2)
ENVR 225: Food, Gender, Globalization and the Environment (4)
ENVR 300: Environmental Geography (4)
ENVR 311: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (4)
ENVR 300B: Sustainable Agriculture (4)
ENVR 312: Geography of Asia (4)
ENVR 300: Topics in Environmental Studies (4) (with approval of program chair)
Science:
BIOL 332: Natural History of the Vertebrates (4)
BIOL 336: Behavioral Ecology (4)
BIOL 337: Aquatic Ecology (4)
BIOL 338: Plant-Animal Interactions (4)
GEOL 211: Physical Geology (4)
GEOL 213: Environmental Geology (4)
Social Science:
PCST 215: Science, Environment and Society (4)
PCST 354: Global Environmental Politics (4)
POLS 323: Constitutional Law: Structure and Power (4)
POLS 334: U.S. Bureaucracy and Regulatory Law (4)
POLS 353: International Law and Organization
SOCI 338: World Populations (4)
Humanities:
COMM 381: Environmental Rhetoric (4)
THEO 343: Theology and the Environment (4)
Environmental Studies Minor (24 Credits)
Required minor courses (12 credits):
ENVR 150, 175, 275
Note: Students majoring in the natural sciences are exempted from ENVR 175 and instead must complete ENVR 275 and one additional approved natural science course from the following list: BIOL 109, 331, 334, 336, 337, CHEM 105, COLG 113/PCST 215, GEOL 211, 212, 213, PHYS 103, 105, 107; other courses (such as those taken overseas) may be approved for this requirement through consultation with the program chair.
Minor electives (12 credits)
The three elective courses must be taken outside the student’s major field of study and must include at least two courses at the 300 level. The list of approved courses will be expanded as new courses are proposed and approved by the environmental studies program chair. The currently approved courses include all ENVR 300-level courses, COMM 381, ECON 318, ENVR 200/300, HIST 360, PCST 354, PCST 215, PHIL 243, SOCI 338, THEO 343.
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