ES Core Courses and Concentrations
Core Courses – Required of all ES majors
- 203: Scientific Approaches to Environmental Issues
- 204: Environment and Society
- 205: Environment and Culture
- 2xx/3xx : course for breadth
- 417: Community Engaged Research in Environmental Studies
- 457 (fall semester) and/or 458 (winter semester): Senior Thesis (For a one semester thesis, either 457 or 458 is required. For a two semester thesis, both 457 and 458 are required).
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
- Energy
- Environment and Culture
- Environment in the Literary and Visual Arts
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Geology
- Global Environment and Social Change
- Health
- Regional Perspectives (NOTE: No longer available to the class of 2016 and subsequent years.)
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