ES Core and Concentrations

Core Courses

• 203: Scientific Perspectives
• 204: Environment and Society
• 205: Environment and Culture
• 2xx/3xx : course for breadth
• 417: capstone
• 457/458: thesis

Learning Objectives

• recognize the connections among cultural, social, and scientific perspectives
• be able to identify the scale of an issue and the major players, agents, controls, and perspectives
• be able to identify assumptions inherent in arguments, perspectives, and studies

Concentrations

(5-7 courses in one of the following areas)

• Ecology
• Environment and Culture
• Environment in the Literary and Visual Arts
• Environmental Chemistry
• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Ethics
• Environmental Geology
• Environmental Physics
• Global Environment and Social Change
• Health
• Regional Perspectives

Learning Objectives

• understand the role this sub-discipline plays within Environmental Studies
• be able to appropriately interpret the media of the sub-discipline
• understand methodological approaches of the sub-discipline
• gain enough mastery to do scholarly work in this field
• become proficient in written, oral, and visual communication