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Oct 29, 2025
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Environmental Studies Major (BA)
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The interdisciplinary major in environmental studies consists of a required core of nine courses (31 to 33 hours) and a concentration of six courses (18 to 26 hours). The total number of semester hours that a student must take to complete the Environmental Studies major depends upon their concentration and the electives they choose. The major offers four concentration options: 1) environmental management; 2) computational environmental analysis; 3) environmental policy and advocacy; and 4) conservation ecology. Students unfamiliar with spreadsheet applications are encouraged to take SCIE 040 (Spreadsheets for Science and Mathematics) as an elective in their first year. All students are strongly encouraged to complete an environmental studies internship.
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Required Core Courses for the Environmental Studies Major (31-33 hrs):
Plus, two of the following Social Science courses (6-7 hrs)
Plus, one course from the following (3 or 4 hrs):
Environmental Management Concentration (19-21 hrs):
Plus, two electives from the following list:
Computational Environmental Analysis Concentration (22 hrs):
Students opting to concentrate in Computational Analysis must complete either BIOL 205 or MATH 107 to satisfy their statistics requirement in the core courses above. In addition, the following six courses (22 hours) are required: Environmental Policy and Advocacy Concentration (18-19 hours):
Students opting to concentrate in Environmental Policy and Advocacy will complete a core of three courses in the concentration, plus one concentration elective and two courses in a concentration option of either the domestic grouping or the international grouping. Concentration Required Core (6 hrs):
Concentration Elective-choose one (3-4 hrs):
Concentration Option (choose either the international or domestic grouping):
International Grouping-choose three courses (9 hrs):
Domestic Grouping-choose three courses (9 hrs)
Conservation Ecology Concentration (23-26 hrs):
Concentration Core (17 hours)
Plus, two electives from the following list (6 hrs min.):
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