Undergraduate Studies

Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies undergraduate major is focused on training students rigorously in the multiple dimensions of environmental change through courses that integrate scientific understanding of human-environment interactions, practical responses to environmental problems, and the values that shape our decisions and behavior.

As graduates with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, students will:

• Integrate scientific principles of earth systems and human-environment interactions, understanding of perspectives and values, and practical response in the study of environmental problems and proposed solutions.
• Evaluate different sources, claims, and data for environmental topics and construct their own arguments.
• Produce an independent research-based analysis of an environmental issue.
• Evaluate contrasting perspectives on and values for environmental issues.
• Generate effective communication about environmental topics in written and oral format
• Evaluate how global and local environmental burdens and benefits are shaped by historical and contemporary systems of exploitation, oppression, inequality, and unequal power relations.