International Environmental Sustainability Major
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General Major Ecology Environmental Policy
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
- ENST/BIOL 120 - Ecology and Environmental Problems
- PSCI 326 - Globalization and Development
- ENST/PSCI 360 - Comparative Environmental Politics or ENST/PSCI 361 - Globalization and the Environment or ENST/PSCI 362 Global Sustainability and Asian Development or ENST/PSCI 363 Global Responses to Climate Change
- ANTH/ENST 274 - Peoples and Cultures of East Africa or ANTH/ENST 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food
- 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 (3 total)
- Two elective International Environmental Sustainability courses from the approved list (see below).
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One elective Natural Science course from the approved list (below).
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)
Students concentrating in this area are especially encouraged to study abroad.
International Environmental Sustainability (approved elective courses - 2 required)
- PHYS 239 - Problems of Nuclear Disarmament
- ENST/ANTH 274 - People and Cultures of East Africa*
- ENST/PSCI 262/362 - Global Sustainability and Asian Development*
- ENST/ANTH 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food*
- SOC 344 - Population and Environment
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- ENST/PSCI 360 Comparative Environmental Politics
- ENST/PSCI 361 Globalization and the Environment
- HIST 360 Modern Brazil
- SOC 344 Population and Environment
- ENST 250 Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 Internship, with approval of ES program director
- ENST/PSCI 360 Comparative Environmental Politics
- ENST/PSCI 361 Globalization and the Environment
- HIST 360 Modern Brazil
- SOC 344 Population and Environment
- ENST 250 Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 Internship, with approval of ES program director
- 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*
- HIST 360 - Modern Brazil
- ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies**, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 270 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 370 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 397 - Internship**, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 450 - Independent Study**
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ENST 451 - Independent Research and Writing**
*This course may count as an additional international environmental sustainability elective only if not taken to fill one of the required courses for the concentration.
**Only one of the three elective courses in this category may be ENST 250, 397, 450 or 451.
- ENST/PSCI 361 Globalization and the Environment
- HIST 360 Modern Brazil
- SOC 344 Population and Environment
- ENST 250 Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of ES program director
- ENST 397 Internship, with approval of ES program director
Natural Science (approved elective courses - 1 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 and 102)
- ENST/BIOL 218 - Field Ornithology (prerequisites: ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST]; or BIOL 101 and 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
- BIOL/ENST 321 - Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology (prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 102)
- BIOL/ENST 350 - Tropical Ecology (prerequisites: ENST/BIOL 120 [for ENST]; or BIOL 101 and 102 [for BIOL])
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