Environmental Studies Major
Program Advanced Placement Policy
AP credits may be used for advanced placement in the Environmental Studies major but do not reduce the number of courses required. Students scoring a 5 on the AP Environmental Science exam will normally skip BIOL 117 Environmental Science and take an additional Environmental Studies science elective. Students scoring a 4 or 5 on the AP Chemistry exam may opt to skip CHEM 181 Atoms & Molecules and take CHEM 231 Equilibrium & Reactivity instead. Students will forfeit their AP Chemistry credit if they choose to take CHEM 181 instead. Students are invited to contact the program director with questions.
Requirements
The Environmental Studies Major is a multidisciplinary program of study that involves a minimum of 14 courses. Each student tailors the major to his/her own interests and strengths within the major requirements, which are included below:
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| Two required courses: | |
| Environmental Science | |
| Environmental Perspectives | |
| Students must also take the ENVS Capstone Project Seminar. | |
| Two introductory science courses: | |
| Introduction to Biol Diversity and Ecology | |
| Environmental Chemistry | |
| Atoms & Molecules | |
| Introduction to Geology | |
| Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Waves | |
| Two environmental humanities courses: | |
| China and the Environment | |
| Nature in the Classical World | |
| Georgic and Pastoral | |
| The Romantic Revolution | |
| Thoreau: Then and Now | |
| Environmental Poetics | |
| Food, Power, & Environment | |
HIST 140 | |
| Environmental History | |
| U.S. Mexican Border | |
| Environmental Political Philosophy | |
| Environmental Ethics | |
| Ecology & Religion | |
| Comparative Mysticism & Human Ecology | |
| Gardens & World Religions | |
| Nature and Animals in the Bible | |
| Fire & Ice: Siberia In Fiction | |
| Making the Modern City | |
| Designing Green | |
| American Art & Ecology | |
| City Nature | |
| Drawn to Nature | |
| One environmental economics course: | |
| Environmental Economics 1 | |
| One additional environmental social science course: | |
| Environmental Law | |
ENVS 299-F02 | |
| Contested Waterscapes | |
| U.S. Environmental Policy | |
| Politics of Development | |
| Consumer & Corp Sustainability | |
| Environmental Sociology | |
| Cities and Environment | |
| Two additional environmental science courses (one must include a lab): | |
| Introduction to Biol Diversity and Ecology | |
| Microbiology of a Hurricane | |
| Freshwater Ecology | |
| Marine Biology | |
BIOL 250 | |
| Ecology | |
| Conservation Biology | |
| Ecosystem Ecology | |
| Invertebrate Biology | |
| Environmental Chemistry | |
| Atoms & Molecules | |
| Equilibrium & Reactivity | |
| Instrumental Chemistry/Analytical Methods | |
| Introduction to Climate Change | |
| Climate Science | |
| Introduction to Geology | |
| Geomorphology | |
| Watershed Hydrology | |
| Paleoclimatology | |
| Oceanography | |
| Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Waves | |
| The Physics of Energy | |
| One quantitative or spatial analysis course: | |
| Biological Statistics | |
| Introduction to Geographic Info Systems | |
| Introduction to Remote Sensing Introduction to Raster | |
| Statistics | |
| Two additional upper level environmental electives in any area above. 2 | |
| 1 | ECON 110 Principles of Economics is a prerequisite for ECON 224 Environmental Economics. |
| 2 | One of the upper level course requirements can be fulfilled by undergraduate research, an honors thesis, or academic internship for academic credit with prior permission of the ENVS Director/Chair. |
The courses listed above are regularly offered. Departments frequently offer additional courses that may be counted for ENVS credit. The director will publicize other courses and how they may be used to fulfill major requirements.
Students may also use certain study abroad courses to fulfill major requirements with prior permission from the Environmental Studies Study Abroad Advisor.
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