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Environmental Studies

International Environmental Sustainability Major

Requirements

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Students must take a minimum of 11 courses, at least four of which are at the 300-level or above including the following (*check prerequisites).

Required Core Courses (8 total)

  1. ENST 100 - Environment and Society
  2. ENST/BIOL 120 - Ecology and Environmental Problems
  3. ENST 230 (formerly 110) - Earth Systems Science
  4. PSCI 326 - Globalization and Development 
  5. Politics requirement - one of the following: 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
  6. Culture requirement - one of the following: ANTH/ENST 274 - Peoples and Cultures of East Africa or ANTH/ENST 288 - Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Food
  7. Research methods requirement - one of the following:
    • ENST 200 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
    • BIOL 323* (formerly 209) - Biostatistics and Experimental Design
    • PSYCH 227 - Statistics
    • ECON 227 - Statistics for Business and Economics
    • SOC 225 - Methods of Social Research
    • PSCI 392 - Empirical Political Research
  8. Ethics requirement - either PHIL 301 (formerly 302) Ethics and the Environment or ENST/PSCI 365 - Ethical Dilemmas in Environmental Politics
  9. ENST 480* - Senior Seminar: Creating a Sustainable Society

    Elective Courses (2 total)

  10. One elective International Environmental Sustainability courses from the approved list (see below).
  11. One elective Natural Science course from the approved list (below).      

    Students concentrating in this area are especially encouraged to study abroad.
    No more than one internship (ENST 397) may count toward the major.

International Environmental Sustainability (approved elective courses - 1 required)

Only one of the elective courses in this category may be ENST 250, 397, 450 or 451.
**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.

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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
  • ENST 231 - Environmental Science in Action 
  • ENST/CHEM 234 - Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
  • 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 318* (formerly 218) - Field Ornithology 
  • BIOL/ENST 321* - Conservation Biology and Restoration Ecology
  • BIOL 324* (formerly 217) - Principles of Ecology 
  • BIOL/ENST 350* - Tropical Ecology
  • ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies, with approval of supervising faculty member and ES advisor
  • ENST 270 - Special Topics, when approved as a natural science course
  • ENST 370 - Special Topics, when approved as a natural science course
  • ENST 397* - Internship, with approval of ES advisor
  • ENST 450* - Independent Study, with approval of supervising faculty member and ES advisor
  • ENST 451* - Independent Research and Writing, with approval of supervising faculty member and ES advisor

Abigail Jahiel - Professor of Environmental and International Studies

Department - Environmental Studies