Environmental Policy Major
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General Major Ecology 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 (7 total)
- ENST 100 - Environment and Society
- ENST 230 (formerly 110) - Earth Systems Science
- ENST/BIOL 120 - Ecology and Environmental Problems
- ENST/PSCI 260 - American Environmental Politics
- ECON 340 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics* or PSCI 341 Congress and the Legislative Process* or SOC 367 Environmental Sociology
- 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 (4 total)
- Three elective Environmental Policy courses from the approved list (see below).
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One elective Natural Science course from the approved list (see 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)
Environmental Policy (approved elective courses - 3 required)
- PSCI 201 - State and Local Government (prerequisite: PSCI 101)
- ENGL 220 - American Ground Zero
- ENST/HIST 248 - American Environmental History
- PSCI 341 - Congress and the Legislative Process (prerequisite: PSCI 101)
- 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
- PSCI/SOC 395 - Action Research Seminar
- PSCI/SOC 398 - Grant Writing
- ENST 250 - Directed Readings in Environmental Studies*, with approval of concentration advisor
- ENST 270 - Special Topics, with approval of concentration advisor
- PSYC 355 - Psychology and the Environment (prerequisite: PSYC 202 or PSYC 300, or consent of instructor)
- SOC 367 - Environmental Sociology**
- ENST 375 - 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*
*Only one of these three electives may be ENST 250, 397, 450 or 451
** This course may count as an additional environmental policy elective only if not taken to fill one of the required courses for the concentration
- 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
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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