Majors

Environmental and Sustainability Studies is a broad introduction to the complex challenges of sustainability as well as the tools needed to address problems that transcend social or environmental domains. This major offers the opportunity to develop skills in communication and creative expression, data collection and analysis, environmental science, and economics. Students may be interested in careers in areas such as environmental planning and coordination, environmental education and communications, sustainability coordination or consulting in the private or public sector, green design, environmental law or public affairs, or graduate study.

Students majoring in Environmental and Sustainability Studies choose one of four concentration areas:

• The Biodiversity and Sustainability Concentration integrates humanities, arts, and sciences to explore the role of biodiversity in sustaining symbiosis between humans and the environment.
• The Environmental Ethics and Justice Concentration emphasizes the role of the environmental humanities and social sciences in understanding and analyzing the relationships between humans and the environments of which we are a part.
• The Sustainable Energy, Resources and Climate Concentration provides students with a focus on sustainability in energy, water, and natural resource systems.
• The Sustainable Food Systems Concentration provides students with a focus on sustainability issues in relation to food and agriculture systems.