The Environmental Studies Major educates students for a broad range of environmental careers, from environmental law to land use planning. Majors choose one of three disciplinary tracks: Geography, Political Science, or Economics. Students are strongly urged to do an internship as part of the major. Course substitutions may be approved by the environmental-studies program advisor.
Required courses for all tracks (35 Hours)
- BIOL 123: The Living World (Living World)
- BIOL 225: Ecological and Evolutionary Systems
- ECON 232: Environmental and Resource Economics (Societal Structures in North America)
- ENST 210: Human Modifications of the Global Environment (Global and Historical Studies)
- ENST 302: Environment and Society
- ENST 395: History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought (Capstone)
- GEOG 120: Earth Systems; or GEOL 151: Introduction to Geology (The Physical World)
- GEOG 261: Cartography and GIS (Rhetoric in Culture)
- POLS 212: American Public Policy (Societal Structures in North America)
- Cognate: MATH 143: Introduction to Probability & Statistics (Depending on other majors or minors, some students may substitute MATH 243: Statistics, PSYC 255: Statistics and Research Design, or SOC 255: Social Science Statistics.) (Mathematics)
Required courses for the disciplinary tracks (15-19 hours)
Five additional offerings—semester courses, interim courses, off-campus programs, and internships—from the list below or approved by the student’s advisor in one of the following disciplines: Geography, Political Science, or Economics. Students may also choose to focus their studies in another discipline if approved by the Environmental Studies program director and an advisor in that discipline. (50-54 Total Hours in the Major)
GEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 110: World Regions
- GEOG 200: People, Place and Community
- GEOG 230: The Global Economy
- GEOG 252: Geomorphology
- GEOG 295: Special Topics in Geography
- GEOG 351: City and Regional Planning
- GEOG 361: Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 385: Internship in Geography
POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLS 101: American Politics or POLS 110: Persons in Political Community
- POLS 202: American State and Local Politics
- POLS 207: Introduction to International Politics
- POLS 209: Public Administration or 314: The President and Congress
- POLS 251: Methods in Political Analysis
- POLS 276: Latin American Politics or 279: African Politics
- POLS 309: International Organizations and Law
- POLS 380: Internship in State or Local Politics
ECONOMICS
- ECON 221: Principles of Microeconomics
- ECON 222: Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 325: Managerial Economics/Advanced Microeconomics
- ECON 326: Business Cycles and Forecasting/Advanced Macroeconomics
- ECON 330: Urban Regional Economics
- ECON 339: Public Finance
- ECON 343: Quantitative Economics and Econometrics
- BUS 359: Internship in Business
