ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM — FACULTY AND REQUIREMENTS

Faculty

Robert Beattie, Assistant Professor and Director; Steven Rudnick, Associate Director

Requirements

Students in the program complete a set of six core courses plus an internship, and undertake advanced course work in one of the two program tracks. The program’s Environmental Science Track is designed for students in the natural sciences, and the Environment and Society Track for students in the social sciences or humanities.

Courses completed for the Environmental Studies Program may also be used to satisfy University distribution and core requirements, and major department requirements (up to four courses). Three of the nine courses in the program of study must be at the 300 or 400 level.

For matriculated students, successful completion of the program is recorded on official university transcripts when they have met all graduation requirements. Non-matriculated students receive a certificate of completion.

Core Courses

One course chosen from each of the following categories.

1. Introduction to Environmental Studies

ENVSTY 101 (The Nature of Environmental Problems)

2. Biological Foundation

BIOL 102 (Evolutionary Biology)
BIOL 112 (General Biology II)

3. Physical Sciences Foundation

ENVSTY L111 (CHEM L111) (Chemistry and the Environment)
ENVSTY L120 (ECOS L120) (Introduction to Environmental Science)
CHEM 103 (Chemical Principles I)
CHEM 104 (Chemical Principles II)
EEOS 101 (Global Environment)
EEOS 115 (Environmental Geology)
EEOS L260 (ENVSTY L260) (Global Change)

4. Economics Foundation

ECON 101 (Introduction to Microeconomics)

5. Social Sciences/Humanities Foundation

PHIL C108 (Moral and Social Problems)
PHIL C205 (Inquiry and Investigation)
PHIL 220 (Environmental Ethics)
POLSCI 203 (Public Policy)
ENVSTY L250 (POLSCI L250) (Environmental Policymaking)

6. Internship

ENVSTY 301 (Internship in Environmental Studies)

7. Advanced Seminar in Environmental Studies

ENVSTY 401 (Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formulation)

Advanced Courses

Environmental Science Track

Two of the following courses:

BIOL Z200 (Coastal Ecology)
BIOL 328 (Plant Life)
BIOL 330 (Biology of Fishes)
BIOL 333 (Marine Invertebrates)
BIOL 334 (Microbiology)
BIOL 338 (Insect Life)
BIOL 342(Ecology)
BIOL 344 (Ornithology)
BIOL 346 (Maritime Ecology)
BIOL 352 (Evolution)
CHEM 253 (Organic Chemistry I)
CHEM 254 (Organic Chemistry II)
CHEM 311 (Analytical Chemistry)
EEOS L367 (ENVSTY L367) (Introduction to Biological Oceanography/Marine Biology)
EEOS L226 (Introduction to Oceanography)
EEOS 295 (Groundwater)
EEOS 330 (Quantitative Hydrogeology)
EEOS 370 (Remote Sensing)
EEOS 380 (Introduction to Geographical Information Systems)
EEOS 385 (Applied Hydrogeology)
ENVSTY 375 (Environmental and Forensic Geochemistry)

Environment and Society Track

Two of the following courses:

ART 436 (The American Suburb)
ECON 345 (Natural Resources and Sustainable Development)
ECON 349 (Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems)
EEOS 324 (Coastal Zone Management)
EEOS 340 (Planning and Land Use Law)
EEOS 370 (Remote Sensing)
EEOS 378 (Resource Management)
EEOS 380 (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems)
ENGL 408 (American Romanticism)
ENVSTY L240 (AMST L240) (U.S. Environmental History)
ENVSTY L250 (POLSCI L250) (Environmental Policymaking)*
PHIL 215 (Philosophical Foundationsof Public Policy)
PHIL 220 (Environmental Ethics*)
PHIL 307 (Technology and Values)
POLSCI 203 (Public Policy*)
POLSCI 348 (Science and Public Policy)
SOCIOL 373 (Population and Ecology)
MKT 415 (Environmental Issues in Marketing/Management) (College of Management)
PHIL 220, ENVSTY L250, and POLSCI 203 may be used to fulfill either a core or specialized environmental studies program requirement, but not both.

Transfer Credit Policy

Transfer credit may be arranged with the permission of the director of the program.

Pass/Fail Option

One course, in addition to the internship (ENVSTY 301), may be taken pass/fail and applied to the program.