Environmental Studies and Sustainability Major

The General Education Requirement

All students must satisfy a general education requirement consisting of ten (10) courses outside of the major department. The General Education Domain III.C (Global Competency, Ethical Reasoning, and/or Human Diversity) requirement is satisfied through the completion of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability major.

Requirements for Major in Environmental Studies & Sustainability (UERG):

This major and general concentration consists of fifteen (15) courses.

Six (6) Required Core Courses:

• ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
• GEOG 110 World Regional Geography
• GEOG 135 Introduction to Environmental Studies
• GEOG 203 Introduction to Physical Geography
• GEOG 216 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
• MATH 117 Introduction to Statistics (Gen. Ed. Domain II-A)

Five (5) Required - Policy Courses:

• GEOG 235 Environmental Law and Policy
• GEOG 238 Environmental Geography
• GEOG 240 Municipal Land Use
• GEOG 260 Introduction to Urban Studies and Planning in the United States
• GEOG 375 Resource Management

Choose four (4) courses from the following, at least one of which must be at the 300-level or above, and only one 100-level course may count toward this requirement:

• COMM 107 Effective Speaking
• CSCI 138 Information Technology and the Environment
• EASC 101 Conversations With the Earth: An Introduction to Earth Systems
• GEOG 111 The Digital Earth
• GEOG 201 Economic Geography
• GEOG 208 The Environment, Health, and Disease
• GEOG 214 Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 316 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 328 Introduction to Remote Sensing
• GEOG 380 Making Places Sustainable
• GEOG 490 Independent Study in Geography
• GEOG 495 Internship in Geography
• GEOL 108 Physical Geology with Lab
• PHIL 234 Environmental Ethics
• POSC 229 Public Policy Analysis
• POSC 325 Public Management

_{Effective as of the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog}