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)
Class of 2026 and onwards (see Major Checklist for ’26 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-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-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 |