Ecology Major
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General Major Environmental Policy International Environmental Sustainability
Requirements
Students must take a minimum of 11 courses, at least four of which are at the 300-level or above including the following:
Required Core Courses (8 total)
- ENST 100 - Environment and Society
- ENST 230 (formerly 110) - Earth Systems Science
- BIOL 217 - Introductory Ecology (prerequisite BIOL 101 and 102)
- BIOL 209 - Biostatistics and Experimental Design (prerequisite: BIOL 101 and 102)
- ENST/BIOL 321 - Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology (prerequisite: BIOL 101 and 102)
- ENST/PSCI 365 - Ethical Dilemmas in Environmental Politics or PHIL 302 Ethics and the Environment
- ENST 450 - Independent Study or ENST 451 - Independent Research and Writing
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ENST 480 - Senior Seminar: Creating a Sustainable Society (prerequisites: see course description)
Elective Courses (3 total)
- Two elective Ecology courses from the approved list (see below).
- One elective Human Culture and Social Institutions course from the approved list (see below)
Depending on their career interests, and in consultation with the concentration advisor, students should also consider taking CHEM 201, 202, and PHYSICS 101 and 102.
Ecology (approved elective courses - 2 required)
- ENST/BIOL 218 - Field Ornithology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102 [for BIOL]; ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST])
- BIOL 219 - Invertebrate Zoology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102)
- ENST/BIOL 275 - Herpetology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102 [for BIOL]; or ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST])
- ENST/BIOL 302 - Parasitology (prerequisites: BIOL 101, 102 or 107 and 108 or permission of instructor)
- BIOL 306 - Plant and Fungal Diversity (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102)
- BIOL 314 - Microbiology (prerequisites: BIOL 101, 102; 306 recommended)
- BIOL 316 - Evolution (prerequisite: BIOL 101 and 102)
- BIOL 327 - Experimental Ecology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102)
- ENST/BIOL 350 - Tropical Ecology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102 [for BIOL]; or ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST])
- ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies*, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 270 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
- MATH 300 - Mathematical Modeling, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 375 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
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ENST 397 - Internship*, with approval of ES program director
*Either an internship (ENST 397) or a directed reading (ENST 250) may count for one of the two additional Ecology courses (not both).
Human Culture and Social Institutions (approved elective courses - 1 required)
- ENGL 220 - American Ground Zero
- ENGL 220 - Thinking like a Mountain: Literature and Environmental Consciousness
- ENST/HIST 248 - American Environmental History
- ENST/PSCI 260 - American Environmental Politics
- ENST/ANTH 274 - Peoples and Cultures of East Africa
- ENST/ANTH 276 - Native Americans and the Environment
- ENST/PSCI 262/362 - Global Sustainability and Asian Development
- ENST/ANTH 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food
- SOC 344 - Population and Environment
- PSYC 355 - Psychology and the Environment (prerequisite: PSYC 202 or PSYC 300 or consent of instructor)
- ENST/PSCI 360 - Comparative Environmental Politics
- HIST 360 - Modern Brazil
- ENST/PSCI 361 - Globalization and the Environment
- ENST/PSCI 362 (also 262) - Global Sustainability and Asian Development
- ENST/PSCI 363 - Global Responses to Climate Change
- SOC 367 - Environmental Sociology
- ENST 270 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 375 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
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