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 212 Geographic Perspectives on the Global Environment
• GEOG 235 Environmental Law and Policy
• GEOG 240 Municipal Land Use
• GEOG 260 Introduction to Urban Studies and Planning in the United States
• GEOG 375 Resource Management

Choose Four (4) Related Electives from the following:

• COMM 107 Effective Speaking
• CSCI 138 Information Technology and the Environment
• EASC 131 Conversations With the Earth
• GEOG 214 Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 225 Population, Food, and Global Development
• GEOG 230 Geography of Natural and Man-Made Hazards
• GEOG 272 Site Planning or
  • GEOG 368 Community Development
• GEOG 316 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 328 Introduction to Remote Sensing
• GEOG 339 Methods of Planning and Plan Making
• GEOG 490 Independent Study in Geography
• GEOG 495 Internship in Geography
• GEOL 231 Physical Geology (Gen. Ed. Domain II-B, Lab)
• PHIL 234 Environmental Ethics
• POSC 325 Public Management
• POSC 329 Public Policy Analysis

Effective as of the 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog