Environmental Studies - Environment and Society Concentration (BA)

College Breadth Requirements:

These requirements apply to all College of Earth, Ocean & Environment Bachelor of Arts degrees. College Breadth courses, when combined with University Breadth courses must represent at least two departments or appropriate instructional units in each category.

If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.

Three credits in each category below can be used to fulfill the University Breadth requirement:

• Creative Arts and Humanities  (nine credits)

Understanding and appreciation of the visual and performing arts, of aesthetic forms, designs, or craftsmanship, or of literary, philosophical, and intellectual traditions. Courses may focus on a single aesthetic form or intellectual tradition, or cross-cultural comparisons.

• History and Cultural Change  (nine credits)

Understanding of the sources and forces of historical changes in ideas, beliefs, institutions, and cultures. Courses may address social, cultural, intellectual, economic, technological, artistic, scientific, and political development, changes in a discipline, or globalization and its effects.

• Social and Behavioral Sciences  (nine credits)

Understanding of the behavior of individuals and social groups in the context of their human and natural environments. Courses emphasize the empirical findings, applications, and methods of the social and behavioral sciences.

• Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology  (10 credits)

Understanding of fundamental and/or applied concepts and phenomena from mathematics, logic, natural or physical sciences, and technology including quantitative reasoning and methods used to approach and solve problems. Courses taken to fulfill this category (University and College Breadth) must include a minimum of one course with an associated laboratory.

Foreign Language:

• Completion of the intermediate-level course (107,112, or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-.
  • The number of credits (0-12) needed and initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language.
    • Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination  through the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.

Mathematics:

Successful completion of one of the following options:

Second Writing Requirement:

• A Second Writing Requirement  approved by the College of Arts and Sciences. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours, completed with a minimum grade of C-, and the section enrolled must be designated as satisfying the requirement in the academic term completed.

Core:

• APEC 100 - Sustainable Development Credit(s): 3

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• APEC 150 - Economics of Agriculture and Natural Resources Credit(s): 3

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• ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics Credit(s): 3

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• APEC 343 - Environmental Economics Credit(s): 3

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• ENSC 101 - Introduction to the Environment Credit(s): 1-3

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• ENSC 102 - Introduction to Environmental Science Credit(s): 3

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• ENVR 300 - Earth Systems: Science and Policy Credit(s): 3
• GEOG 235 - Conservation of Natural Resources Credit(s): 3

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• GEOG 372 - Introduction to GIS Credit(s): 3

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• APEC 480 - Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resource Management Credit(s): 4

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• GEOL 105 - Geological Hazards and Their Human Impact Credit(s): 3
• GEOL 115 - Geological Hazards Laboratory Credit(s): 1
• MAST 200 - The Oceans Credit(s): 3
• PHIL 448 - Environmental Ethics Credit(s): 3

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• POSC 240 - Introduction to Global Politics Credit(s): 3

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• GEOG 236 - Conservation: Global Issues Credit(s): 3

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• POSC 350 - Politics and the Environment Credit(s): 3

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• MAST 462 - Climate Change: Policy, Equity and Mitigation Credit(s): 3

Supporting Math and Science:

• BISC 104 - Principles of Biology with Laboratory Credit(s): 4
• CHEM 100 - Chemistry and Human Environment Credit(s): 3
• STAT 200 - Basic Statistical Practice Credit(s): 3

Field Experience:

An approved 3-6 credit studies field experience in which the student integrates the components of their concentration in an experiential learning environment. This requirement could be fulfilled by a field course, an internship, study abroad experience and/or a research experience approved by the faculty director of the ENVR program.

• ENSC 426 - Alpine Environmental Field Methods Credit(s): 3
• ENSC 464 - Environmental Internship Credit(s): 1-6
• ENSC 468 - Honors: Directed Research Credit(s): 3-6
• GEOG 300 - Research Design and Mixed Methods Credit(s): 3
• GEOG 430 - Food Geographies & Food Justice Credit(s): 3
• GEOL 434 - Geology of Coasts Credit(s): 3
• MAST 432 - Environmental Field Robotics Credit(s): 4
• PLSC 405 - Environmental Forensics and Society Credit(s): 3
• UNIV 364 - Experiential Internship Credit(s): 3

Capstone Course:

The three-credit capstone course serves as a culminating experience and is to be completed during the last semester of the senior year. This course will engage students in an exploration and discussion of the history and state of environmental studies and its connection to local, regional, national and global scale environmental issues. Students will develop and refine critical thinking skills and interdisciplinary problem-solving strategies. It serves to be a culminating experience for students on the “science-side” and the “studies-side” to collaboratively solve problems and discuss issues in the current environmental literature.

• ENSC 450 - Proseminar in the Environment Credit(s): 3 (fulfills Second Writing Requirement)
• GEOG 445 - Capstone in Geography Credit(s): 3