2019-2020 Catalog and Student Handbook

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.

Foundations in Environmental Science (15 Hours)

GEOL 101Introduction to Environmental Geology

4

BIOL 102Environmental Biology

3

BIOL 105Introductory Biology Laboratory I

1

CHEM 101Modern Chemistry

4

ENVR 210Introduction to Environmental Science

3

Statistics (3 Hours)

MATH 223Statistics for Natural & Social Sciences

3

Computational Skills (6 Hours)

CSCI 210Scientific Computing & Problem Solving

3

GEOL 304/GIS 304Introduction to GIS Mapping & Analysis

3

Environmental Studies (18 Hours)

ECON 211Principles of Microeconomics

3

ECON 350Environmental & Natural Resource Economics

3

ENVS 310Environmental Policy & Law

3

ENVS 315Environmental Impact & Resource Assessment

3

PHIL 321Environmental Ethics

3

Electives: Two of the following (6 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

Environmental Professional Practice and Experiential Learning (4 Hours)

WRIT 305Business Writing

3

Or

WRIT 307Technical Writing

3

  

ENVS 391Experiential Learning

1

Senior Capstone (3 Hours)

ENVR 491Environmental Problem Solving I

1

ENVR 492Environmental Problem Solving II

2

Total Credit Hours: 49-50