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Environmental Studies Major

 

The major in environmental studies has a credit requirement and a distribution requirement. The major requires students to take at least 30 credits of approved course work and a minimum of ten courses in environmental studies (EVST) or courses in associated fields listed below. A maximum of three courses or nine credits from 1000-level courses can be counted toward the fulfillment of the major. In addition, a minimum of three courses above the 3000-level are required for the major. The major requires students to take one course from each of the following four topical areas of environmental studies: Distribution and Conservation of Living Things; Landscapes and Seascapes through Time; Problems and Potentialities of Built Environments; and Environmental Thought, Practice, and Policy. Some of these courses have prerequisites, corequisites, or require instructor's approval. The program does not offer a minor in environmental studies.

The Four Topical Areas of Environmental Studies (students must complete one course from each topical area):

1. Distribution and Conservation of Living Things

* requires instructor's approval.

3. Problems, Potentialities of Built Environments

  • SPHU 2010 - Disease Ecology and Public Health Concepts
  • EBIO 2010 - Evolution in Human Health and Disease
  • EENS 3050 - Natural Disasters
  • URST 3100 - Urban Geography
  • EENS 3720 - Infrastructure of Sustainable Urban Environments
  • EVST 3930 - Special Topics in Problems in Problems, Potentialities of Built Environments
  • ENHS 6030 - Survey of Environmental Health Sciences

4. Environmental Thought, Practice, and Policy

  • EENS 2020 - Environmental Geology
  • EENS 2060 - Introductory Geography
  • SOCI 2600 - Environmental Sociology
  • ECON 3330 - Environment and Natural Resources
  • PHIL 3340 - Humanity's Place in Nature
  • COMM 3510 - Environmental Communication
  • ANTH 3560 - Environmental Archaeology
  • ANTH 3700 - Environmental Anthropology
  • EVST 3950 - Special Topics in Environmental Thought, Practice, and Policy
  • POLA 4230 - Environmental Politics and Policy
  • EENS 3150 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems With EENS 3151 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
  • IDEV 3200 - Approaches to Sustainable Development

Courses

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