Three major cluster areas frame the Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies curriculum: the natural environment and its complexities, the human environment and its complexities, and inner personal complexity. The core courses emphasize sustainability, systems science, field sciences and service learning, along with contemplative and intercultural aspects of environmental work.
| ENV 207 |
History of the Environmental
Movement (3) |
| ENV 215 |
Sustainability(3) |
| ENV 220 |
Ecology and Systems Science (3) |
| ENV 250 |
Nature, the Sacred and Contemplation (3) |
| ENV 260 |
Applied Horticulture (3) |
| ENV 302 |
Environmental Pollution and Solutions (3) |
| ENV 315 |
Deep Ecology in Context (3) |
| ENV 355 |
Environmental Justice (3) |
| ENV 357 |
Creating a Learning Community (noncredit) |
| ENV 420 |
Environmental Service Learning: Ecological Restoration (3) |
| ENV 479 |
BA Portfolio Review (noncredit) |
| ENV 480 |
Senior Project Course (3) |
| SUBTOTAL |
30 |
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| Choose one field science course: |
| ENV 311 |
Plant Ecology(3) |
| ENV 321 |
Geology (3) |
| ENV 351 |
Wildlife Ecology (3) |
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| Choose one focus course: |
| ENV 226 |
Global Corporatism (3) |
| ENV 236 |
Green Building (3) |
| ENV 238 |
Survival Skills (3) |
| ENV 253 |
Environmental Economics (3) |
| ENV 342 |
Advanced Applied Horticulture (3) |
| ENV 363 |
Indigenous Environmental Issues (3) |
| ENV 365 |
Ecopsychology (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 36 |
Students from other departments interested in an Environmental Studies minor may select one of the following 12-credit minors. Courses must be taken in the appropriate sequence where prerequisites exist.
| Ecology and Systems Science |
| ENV 100 | Physical Geography (3) |
| ENV 220 | Ecology and Systems Science (3) |
| ENV 302 | Environmental Pollution and Solutions (3) |
| One field science course (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 12 |
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| Environmental History and Justice |
| ENV 207 | History of the Environmental Movement (3) |
| ENV 355 | Environmental Justice (3) |
| ENV 363 | Indigenous Environmental Issues (3) |
| ENV 420 |
Environmental Service Learning: Ecological Restoration (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 12 |
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| Environmental Sustainability |
| ENV 215 | Sustainability (3) |
| ENV 226 | Global Corporatism (3) |
| ENV 236 | Green Building (3) |
| ENV 253 | Environmental Economics (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 12 |
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| Horticulture |
| ENV 100 | Physical Geography (3) |
| ENV 220 | Ecology and Systems Science (3) |
| ENV 260 | Applied Horticulture (3) |
| ENV 342 | Advanced Applied Horticulture (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 12 |
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| Sacred Ecology |
| ENV 245 | Geography: Pilgrimage and Sacred Landscape (3) |
| ENV 250 | Nature, the Sacred and Contemplation (3) |
| ENV 315 | Deep Ecology in Context (3) |
| ENV 365 | Ecopsychology (3) or |
| ENV 238 | Survival Skills (3) or |
| PSYT 320 | Psychology of Wilderness Experience (3) |
| TOTAL CREDITS 12 |
