Environmental Studies
- Course Descriptions
ENV 100 Environmental Connections
An interdisciplinary introduction to current environmental issues. The course depends on ecological visions of the world and examines the connections we share as people living simultaneously in human community and in physical environments. In examining these connections, we depend on the insights offered by political science, biology, economics, literature, sociology, chemistry, and history as well as experiential education and service-learning. The issues examined in this class—neither remote nor abstract—exist in our everyday lives, and a central feature of the course is the application of knowledge gained in the class to a campus project. (Social and Behavioral Sciences LAF, fall)
ENV 490 Environmental Studies Independent Project
An independently-designed project (approved by the program director and a committee of three environmental studies faculty representing at least two academic divisions) that displays a student’s ability to synthesize interdisciplinary approaches, demonstrate higher-level learning, and examine vocational issues through the study of an environmental problem. Vocational questions will also be formally explored. (Prereq.: ENV 100, BIO 152, CHM 106 or 116, SWK 210, HIS 316, and ENV 399)
