Electives
To complete the environmental studies degree, students must complete at least:
- 12 credits from social sciences and humanities AND
- 12 credits from natural sciences and engineering
Electives are selected from the following departments. The following list is not exhaustive. Please see the environmental studies advisor for additional electives.
Note: The School of Arts and Sciences does not require environmental studies majors to have a "related area."
- 0582 Intro to Archaeology
- 0620 Biocultural Anthropology
- 0680 Intro to Physical Anthropology
- 0780 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
- 1524 Chinese Archaeology
- 1525 Eastern North American Archaeology
- 1528 South American Archaeology
- 1751 People and Environment of Amazonia
- 0230 Public Finance 1
- 0330 Urban Economics
- 0360 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
- 0530 Economics of Underdeveloped Areas
- 0630 East Asia’s Dynamic Economies
- 1360 Environmental Economics
- 1530 Development Economics
- 1560 World Food Economy
- 1630 Economic Development of China
- 1640 Japanese Economic Growth
- 1626 History of U.S. Landscape
- 1695 Environmental Politics
- 0437 Darwinism and Its Critics
- 0517 Thinking About the Environment
- 0621 Problem Solving: How Science Works
- 0633 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy
- 1261 American Public Policy
- 1267 Environmental Politics and Policy
- 1301 Theories and Concepts in Comparative Government
- 1374 Politics of Global Inequality
- 1541 Politics of Global and Economic Relations
- 1542 Global Environmental Politics (Honors)
- 1543 Globalization and International Politics
- 0312 Science in Society
- 1438 Demography
- 1445 Society and Environment
- 0080 Introduction to Urban Studies
- 2114 Environmental and Economic Sustainability
- 2115 Environmental Management and Policy
- 2116 Environmental and Resource Economics
- 1766 Environmental Management
- 0060 Foundations of Biology Laboratory 2
- 0160 Foundations of Biology 2
- 0350 Genetics
- 0370 Ecology
- 0390 Ecology Laboratory
- 1170 Limnology
- 1320 Population Ecology
- 1330 Field Botany
- 1350 Introduction to Plant Biology
- 1380 Global Ecology
- 0120 General Chemistry 2
- 0250 Introductory Analytical Chemistry
- 0310 Organic Chemistry 1
- 0350 Principles of Organic Chemistry
- 0810 Contemporary Issues and Their Impact on Public Policy
- 0110 Intro to Personal Computing and the Internet
- 0131 Software for Personal Computing
- 0060 Historical Geology
- 0802 Geology of the National Parks
- 0890 Physical Oceanography
- 1001 Mineralogy
- 1020 Sedimentology/Stratigraphy
- 1051 Groundwater Geology
- 1052 Paleoclimates
- 1060 Geomorphology
- 1079 Field Methods
- 1080 Geoarchaeology
- 1100 Structural Geology
- 1200 Paleontology
- 1410 Exploration Geophysics
- 1445 GIS, GPS Surveying, and Computer Methods
- 1446 Advanced GIS
- 1460 Remote Sensing of the Earth
- 1640 Geologic and Environmental Hazards
- 1902 Mgt of Environmental Organizations (Allebach; highly recommended)
- 1903 Undergraduate Research
- 1904 Directed Reading: Environmental Policy (DeMarco; highly recommended)
- 1904 Directed Reading: Health and Safety (Kubeldis; highly recommended)
- 1904 Directed Reading: Issues (Hopey; highly recommended)
- 2447 Introduction to Arc/View and Advanced Arc/View Programming
- 0087 Nuclear Science and Society
- 1503 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- 1513 Environmental Engineering Processes