To declare an Environmental Studies major please follow the Workday Instructions provided by the Registrar's Office. 

structure of the environmental studies major

The ENST major consists of a minimum of eleven full-semester courses in Environmental Studies. Requirements differ slightly depending on class year.  Use the checklists below to monitor your progress through major requirements.

Classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024 (see Major Checklist for ’22-24) 

  • ENST-120: The Resilient (?) Earth - Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Environmental History (one of the following): ENST-220 or ENST-265 or ENST-105
  • Economics (one of the following): ENST-230 or ECON-111
  • Statistics / Research Methods (one of the following): ENST-274, STAT-111, STAT-135, STAT-225, STAT-230, STAT-231, ECON-360, SOCI/SWAG-453, SOCI-316, PSYC-122, PSYC-200 
  • Environmental Policy (one of the following): ENST-250 or ENST-260
  • Ecology (one of the following): ENST-210: Ecology or ENST-310: Ecosystems Ecology 
  • Four electives (see below), with at least one course in Category 1: Natural Sciences and one course in Category 2: Social Sciences & Humanities
  • ENST-495: Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (capstone)

Class of 2025 and onwards (see Major Checklist for ’25 and onwards)

  • ENST-110: Introduction to Environmental Science with laboratory
  • ENST-120: The Resilient (?) Earth - Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Environmental History (one of the following): ENST-220 or ENST-265 or ENST-105
  • Economics (one of the following): ENST-230 or ECON-111
  • Statistics / Research Methods (one of the following): ENST-274 or STAT-111 or STAT-135 or ECON-360
  • Environmental Policy (one of the following): ENST-250 or ENST-260
  • Environmental Justice (one of the following): ENST-226 or ENST-272 or ENST-314 or ENST-330
  • Ecology (one of the following): ENST-210: Ecology or ENST-310: Ecosystems Ecology 
  • Two electives (see below)
  • ENST-495: Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (capstone)
    ELECTIVE COURSES 

    Category 1

     

     

    ENST-110: Environmental Science with Lab

    ENST-225: Climate Change: Science and Solutions

    ENST-253/GEOL-253: Principles of Geospatial Inquiry

    ENST-301/GEOL-301: Hydrogeology

    ENST-402: Wine, History and the Environment

    ENST-441/BIOL-440: Seminar in Conservation Biology

    BIOL-104: Food, Fiber, Pharmaceuticals

    BIOL-181: Adaptation & the Organism

    BIOL-201: Disease Ecology

    BIOL-280/281: Animal Behavior

    BIOL-320/321: Evolutionary Biology

    BIOL-434: Seminar in Ecology: Plant-animal interactions

     

    BIOL-454: Seminar in Tropical Biology

    GEOL-105: Intro to Oceanography

    GEOL-109: Climate Change: Science and Rhetoric

    GEOL-112: Surficial Earth Dynamics: Climate, Environment and Life

    GEOL-331: Climate Dynamics: Past, Present, and Future

    GEOL-450: Seminar in Biogeochemistry

    MATH-140: Mathematical Modeling

    MATH-142 Mathematical Modeling with Environmental Applications

    PHYS-109: Energy

    Category 2

     

     

    ENST-207/HIST-207: The Wild and the Cultivated

    ENST-220/HIST-104: Environmental Issues of the 19th Century

    ENST-226/SOCI-226: Unequal Footprints on the Earth: Understanding the Social Drivers of Ecological Crises & Environmental Inequality

    ENST-228/PHIL-225: Environmental Philosophy

    ENST-236: Finding the Humanity in Nature

    ENST-250: U. S. Environmental Policy

    ENST-260: Global Environmental Politics

    ENST-265/HIST-265: Environmental History of Latin America

    ENST-270/SOCI-270: Food and the Environment: Towards Global Health, Justice, and Sustainable Development

    ENST-272: Climate Justice Now

    ENST-300: The Green New Deal
    ENST-306/SOCI-306:Pandemics and Society: The Socio-Ecological Construction of Infectious Diseases throughout History

    ENST-314: Climate Justice Now (S23)

    ENST-328/SOCI-328: The Pandemic

    ENST-330: Environmental Justice

    ENST-341: Ecology, Justice, and the Struggle for Socio-Ecological Change: Environmental Movements and Ideas

    ENST-342: Socio-Ecological Victories and Visions

    ENST-371/SPAN-371: Climate and Justice in Puerto Rico

    ENST-430: Seminar on Fisheries

    ENST-474/PHIL-374: Population Ethics

     

    ANTH-251: Commodifying Nature

    ARCH-205: Sustainable Design: Principles, Practice, Critique

    ECON-210: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

    ECON-212: Public Economics: Environment, Health, and Inequality

    ECON-410: Environment and Development

    POSC-112: The International Politics of Climate Change

    POSC-231: The Political Economy of Petro States Venezuela Compared

    POSC-307: States of Extraction Nature, Women, and World Politics

    LJST-227: Sustainability and the Fate of Law - Can Law Save the World?

    LJST-235: Law’s Nature – Humans, the Environment, and the Predicament of Law

    HIST-411: Commodities, Nature and Society

    ENGL-162/BLST-162: Black (on) Earth: Introduction to African American Environ. Literature

    ENGL-445: British Romantic Poetry: Nature & the Imagination

    ENGL-494: Globe & Planet in Contemporary Literature

    RELI-225: Christianity, Ecology, and Environmental Responsibility

    PSYC-246: Environmental Psychology

    RUSS-114: Writing Nature: Environmental Perspectives on Russian Culture