Requirements for the MAJOR (B.A.)

interdisciplinary, 12 courses

• ENV 110 (any and only one ENV-110 course)
• ENV 300/301 (or Approved Internship)
• 2 Core Humanities Courses (from different departments)
• 2 Core Natural Science Courses (from different departments)
• 2 Core Social Science Courses (from different departments)
• 3 ES Elective (or ES Core) Courses at or above 200 level
• 1 ES Elective (or ES Core) Course

Careful selection of the ES Core and ES Electives can define a theme of focus, e.g., a concentration in a track like environmental science, public policy, social ecology, concepts of nature and aquatic studies.

Requirements for the MINOR

interdisciplinary, 6 courses

• ENV 110 (or substitute one additional ES Core Course from a different division of the student’s disciplinary major/minor(s))
• 1 Core Humanities Course
• 1 Core Natural Science Course
• 1 Core Social Science Course
• 2 ES Elective (or ES Core) Courses at or above the 200 level

Environmental Studies "Core" Courses

Humanities Core Courses <prerequisites>
AMST 201 American Attitudes Towards Nature (Patterson) <none>
ENG 223 Environmental Literature (Staff) <none>
HIST 151 Food Systems in History (McNally) <none>
HIST 215 American Urban History (Hood) <none>
HIST 246 American Environmental History (Hood) <none>
PHIL 154 Environmental Ethics (Lee, King or Oberbrunner) <none>
REL 226 Ecology of the Sacred (Botham) <none>
WMST 3xx Eco-Feminism (Bayer)
WRRH 351 The Science Beat (Forbes)

Social Sciences Core Courses <prerequisites>
ANTH 210 Prehistoric Ecology (Nicholas) <none>
ANTH 280 Environment and Culture (Maiale) <none>
ENV 120 Human Geography (Armia) <none>
ECON 212 Environmental Economics (Drennen) <Energy or ECON 120 or 160>
EDUC 360 Teaching for Sustainable Environment (Kelhe) <none>
POL 328 Environmental Policy (Rimmerman) <POL 140>
PPOL 101 Democracy and Public Policy (Rimmerman) <none>
SOC 249 Technology and Society (Mason) <SOC 100>
SOC 271 Sociology of Environmental Issues (Mason) <SOC 100>

Natural Sciences Core Courses <prerequisites>
BIOL 161-166 Introductory Topics in Biology (Biology Faculty) <none>
CHEM 110 Molecules that Matter (Chemistry faculty) <none>
ENV 191 Introductory Environmental Science (Halfman) <none>
ENV 170 The Fluid Earth (Laird, Curtin, Halfman) <none>
GEO 170 The Solid Earth (McKinney, Kendrick, Arens) <none>

Environmental Studies Courses

ENV 110 Topics in Environmental Studies
---Biodiversitry (Arens, or Newell)
---Energy (Drennen & Halfman)
---Global Climate Change (Curtin, Pelkey, or Arima)
---Cancer (Staff)
---Water (Magee or Ryan & McKinney)
ENV 120 Human Geography (Arima)
ENV 170 The Fluid Earth (Curtin, Laird, or Halfman)
ENV 203 Fundamentals of GIS (Arima)
ENV 280 Environmental Problem Solving (Staff)
ENV 204 The Geogrpahy of Garbage (Magee)
ENV 205 Intro Environmental Law (Kinne)
ENV 215 Development & Environment in East Asia (Magee)
ENV 300 Senior Integrative Experience "Individual SIE" (Staff)
ENV 301 Group Senior Integrative Experience (Staff)
ENV 310 Advanced GIS (Arima)
ENV 450 Independent Study (Staff)
ENV 495 Honors (Staff)
ENV 499 Internship (Staff - Permission Required)

Cross Listed from Other Departments
AMST 101 American I, Eye, Aye (Quinby)
ANTH 206 Early Cities (Nicholas)
ANTH 228 Physical Anthropology (Nicholas)
ANTH 247 Urban Anthropology (Staff)
ANTH 285 Primate Behavior (Nicholas)
ANTH 296 African Cultures (Dillon)
ANTH 297 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (Staff)
ANTH 298 Modern Japan (Dillon)
ANTH 354 Food, Meaning, Voice (Maiale)
ANTH 326 Patterns and Processes in Ancient Mesoamerica Urbanism (Nicholas)
ARCH 301 Design II: The Immediate Environment (Hauser, Yapicioglu)
ARCH 302 Design III: The Wider Environment (Hauser, Yapicioglu)
ARCH 311 History of Modern Architecture (Mathews)
ARCH 312 Theories of Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Mathews)
ART 102 Renaissance to Modern Art (Ciletti, Tinkler)
ART 116 World Architecture (Mathews)
ART 234 Photography (Jones)
ART 301 Photography Workshop (Jones)
ART 302 Arts of the Landscape... (Blanchard)
BIDIS 120 Russia and the Environment (Galloway & J McKinney)
BIDIS 219 Math Models and Biological Systems (Mitchell & Ryan)
BIOL 212 Biostatistics (Glover, Droney, Brown)
BIOL 220 Genetics (Glover)
BIOL 222 Microbiology (staff)
BIOL 225 Ecology (Newell)
BIOL 233 General Physiology (Deutchlander)
BIOL 236 Evolution (Droney)
BIOL 238 Aquatic Biology (Brown)
BIOL 315 Advanced Topics (Biology faculty)
BIOL 316 Conservation Biology (Shelley)
BIOL 327 Behavioral Ecology (Droney)
BIOL 339 Physiological Ecology (Newell)
CHEM 120 Chemical Reactivity (Chem faculty)
CHEM 210 Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Bowyer)
CHEM 240 Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Miller, Pelkey)
CHEM 241 Intermediate Organic Chemistry (Miller, Pelkey)
CHEM 260 Environmental Chemistry (Bowyer)
CHEM 348 Biochemistry I (Craig)
CPSC 124 Introduction to Programming (M & CS faculty)
ECON 202 Statistics (Econ faculty)
ECON 213 Urban Economics (McGuire)
ECON 221 Population and Society (Gilbert)
ECON 232 U.S. Economy: A Critical Analysis (Gunn)
ECON 301 Microeconomic Theory and Policy (Econ faculty)
ECON 316 Labor Market Analysis (Mertens)
ECON 348 Natural Resources and Energy Economics (Drennen)
ECON 461 Seminar: Environmental Economics (Drennen)
EDUC 334 Science and Cognition (MaKinster)
EDUC 348 Our National Parks (MaKinster)
ENG 207 American Literature to Melville (Patterson)
ENG 250 English Romanticism
ENG 257 Dickens and His World
ENG 338 Poe, Dickinson, Frost (Crenner)
GEO 210 Environmental Hydrology (Staff)
GEO 230 Problems in Earth History (Arens)
GEO 240 Mineralogy (McKinney)
GEO 250 Physical Oceanography (Laird)
GEO 260 Meteorology (Laird)
GEO 270 Paleoclimatology (Curtin)
GEO 280 Aqueous Geochemistry (Curtin)
GEO 310 Geoscience Systems Modeling (Laird)
GEO 320 Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (Curtin)
GEO 330 Limnology (Halfman)
HIST 151 Food Systems in History (McNally)
HIST 204 History of American Society (Singal)
HIST 208 Women in American History (Tetrault)
HIST 234 Medieval History (Flynn)
HIST 253 Renaissance and Reformation (Flynn)
HIST 256 Technology and Society in Europe (Linton)
HIST 264 Modern European City (Linton)
HIST 310 Rise of Industrial America (Hood)
HIST 311 20th Century America: 1917 1941 (Hood)
HIST 312 The U.S. Since 1939 (Singal)
HIST 397 Environmental History Seminar (Hood)
MATH 130 Calculus I (Math faculty)
MATH 131 Calculus II (Math faculty)
MATH 214 Applied Linear Algebra (Math faculty)
MATH 232 Multivariable Calculus (Math faculty)
MATH 237 Differential Equations (Math faculty)
MATH 350 Probability (Math faculty)
MATH 353 Mathematical Models (Math faculty)
PHIL 232 Liberty and Community (Lee)
PHIL 234 What should I do? (Barnes)
PHIL 235 Morality and Self Interest (Lee)
PHIL 236 Philosophy of Law (Lee)
PHIL 238 Philosophy of Natural Science (Brophy)
PHIL 372 Early Modern Philosophy (Brophy)
PHYS 150 Introduction to Physics I (Physics faculty)
PHYS 160 Introduction to Physics II (Physics faculty)
PHYS 270 Modern Physics (Physics faculty)
PHYS 285 Mathematical Methods (Physics faculty)
POL 215 Minority Group Politics (Johnson, Lucas)
POL 219 Sexual Minority Movements and Public Policy (Rimmerman)
POL 236 Urban Politics (Johnson, Rimmerman)
POL 320 Mass Media (Deutchman)
POL 364 Social Policy and Community Activism (Rimmerman)
PSY 305 Pyschological Test Development (Feasel)
SOC 221 Race and Ethnic Relations (Sociology faculty)
SOC 222 Social Change (Bennett, Moodie)
SOC 223 Inequities (Sociology faculty)
SOC 225 Sociology of Family (Bennett, Monson)
SOC 244 Religion in American Society (Perkins)
SOC 251 Sociology of the City (Spates)
SOC 258 Social Problems (Mason)
SOC 275 Social Policy (Monson)
SOC 290 Sociology of Community (Harris)
SOC 300 Classical Sociological Theory (Harris, Moodie, Spates)
SOC 325 Moral Sociology and the Good Society (Spates)