Environmental Studies and Sustainability Major
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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences – Department of Geography
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