Global Environmental Politics Major Concentration Requirements

1.  One of the following introductory science courses:

• BIO 124 Plants and Human Affairs/Lab
• ENVR 203 Scientific Approaches to Environmental Issues/Lab
• GEO 103 Earth Surface Environments and Environmental Change/Lab
• GEO 109 Global Change/Lab
• PHYS 106 Energy and Environment

2.  One from the following intermediate science courses (some courses have prerequisites):

• BI/ES 246 Conservation Biology
• BI/ES 271 Dendrology and the Natural History of Trees/Lab
• ES/GE 226 Hydrogeology
• ENVR 229 The Electric Grid
• ENVR 240 Water and Watersheds/Lab
• ENVR 310 Soils/Lab
• GEO s36 Coastal Hazards/Lab

3.  One of the following humanistic environmental studies courses:

• INDS 211 Environmental Perspectives on U.S. History
• ES/PL 214 Environmental Ethics
• ES/RU 216 Nature in Russian Culture
• ENVR 227 Catastrophes and Hopes
• ENVR 334 The Question of the Animal
• ENVR 340 Literatures of Agriculture
• ENVR 348 Nature and the Novel

4.  Both of the following economics courses:

• ECON 101 Principles of Microeconomics: Prices and Markets
• ECON 222 Environmental Economics

5.  One of the following politics courses:

• PLTC 171 International Politics
• PLTC 222 International Political Economy

6.  One of the following methods courses:

• ANTH s10 Encountering Community: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Service-Learning.
• BIO 244 Biostatistics
• ECON 250 Statistics
• EDUC s26 Qualitative Methods of Educational Research
• HIST 199 Introduction to Historical Methods
• HIST s40 Introduction to Historical Methods
• INDS 250 Interdisciplinary Studies: Methods and Modes of Inquiry
• PLTC s49 Political Inquiry
• PSYCH 218 Statistics
• RHET 252 Rhetorical Theory
• SOC 205 Research Methods for Sociology

7.  Two additional courses from among the following:

• ANTH 206 What is a Human?
• AN/SO 232 Ethnicity, Nation, and World Community
• AN/ES 242 Environment, Human Rights, and Indigenous Peoples
• INDS 211 Environmental Perspectives on U.S. History
• ENVR 272 Oikos: Rethinking Economy and Ecology
• PLTC 202 Garbage and the Politics of Disposition
• PLTC 236 The Global Politics of Climate Change
• PLTC 248 The Arctic: Politics, Economics, Peoples
• PLTC 249 Politics of Latin America
• PLTC 290 Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
• PLTC 295 Reading Marx, Rethinking Marxisms
• SOC 235 Global Health: Sociological Perspectives
• SOC 250 Privilege, Power, and Inequality

8.  One of the following (some have prerequisites):

• ANTH 330 The Development of Underdevelopment
• ENVR 301 Politics of Nature
• ENVR 337 Social Movements, NGOs, and the Environment
• EN/HI 301M Maine: Environment and History
• EN/LS 350 Environmental Justice in the Americas
• ECON 309 Economics of Less-Developed Countries
• ECON 325 Prices, Property, and the Problem of the Commons
• PLTC 312 Ocean Governance: Local, National, and International Challenges
• PLTC 315 International Cooperation
• PLTC 345 NGOs and World Politics
• PLTC 346 Power and Protest