General Major
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Ecology 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 (5 total)
- ENST 100 - Environment and Society
- ENST 230 (formerly 110) - Earth Systems Science
- ENST/BIOL 120 - Ecology and Environmental Problems
- ENST/PSCI 365 - Ethical Dilemmas in Environmental Politics or PHIL 302 - Ethics and the Environment
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ENST 480 - Senior Seminar: Creating a Sustainable Society (prerequisites: see course description)
Elective Courses (6 total)
- Two elective Natural Science courses from the approved list (see below).
- Two elective Human Culture courses from the approved list (see below)
- Two elective Social Institutions courses from the approved list (see below)
At least two of the six elected courses must be 300-level or above. And no course may be used to count for more than one category. In addition, no more than one internship (ENST 397) and one directed reading (ENST 250) may count toward the major, and an internship and a directed reading may not both be used to satisfy the two-course requirement for any one category.
Students are also expected to take one of the following introductory methods or statistics courses: ENST 200, BIOL 209*, ECON 227*, PSYCH 227, SOC 227, SOC 327 OR PSCI 392 (*check prerequisites)
Natural Science (approved elective courses - 2 required)
- ENST 115/PHYS 120 - Energy and Society
- ENST/CHEM 130 - Chemistry of the Environment
- ENST/CHEM 135 - Water Quality
- BIOL 164 - Marine Realm
- BIOL 217 - Introductory Ecology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 & 102)
- ENST/BIOL 218 - Field Ornithology (prerequisites: ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST]; or BIOL 101 & 102 [for BIOL])
- ENST/BIOL 220 - Natural History of Illinois
- ENST 231 - Environmental Science in Action
- PHYS 239 - Problems of Nuclear Disarmament
- ENST 240 - Health and the Environment
- ENST 241 - War on Cancer: Does Environment Matter?
- ENST 242 - Toxic Threats to Reproduction and Child Development
- ENST/BIOL 275 - Herpetology (prerequisites: ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST]; or BIOL 101 & 102 [for BIOL])
- BIOL/ENST 321 - Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology (BIOL 101 & 102)
- BIOL/ENST 350 - Tropical Ecology (prerequisites: ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST]; or BIOL 101 & 102 [for BIOL])
- ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 - Internship, with approval of ES program director
Human Culture (approved elective courses - 2 required)
- ENGL 220 - American Ground Zero
- ENGL 220 - Thinking like a Mountain: Literature and Environmental Consciousness
- ENST/HIST 248 - American Environmental History
- ENST/ANTH 274 - Peoples and Cultures of East Africa
- ENST/ANTH 276 - Native Americans and the Environment
- ENST/ANTH 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food
- HIST 360 - Modern Brazil
- ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 - Internship, with approval of ES program director
Social Institutions (approved elective courses - 2 required)
- ENST/HIST 248 - American Environmental History
- ENST/PSCI 260 - American Environmental Politics
- ENST/PSCI 262/362 - Global Sustainability and Asian Development
- ENST/ANTH 274 - Peoples and Cultures of East Africa
- ENST/ANTH 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food
- ECON 340 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (prerequisite: ECON 100)
- 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 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 - Internship, with approval of ES program director