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Our听curriculum includes courses in oceanography, climate change, natural disasters, and animal behavior,听and also incorporates听seminars on current听environmental issues, including extinction processes, electronic waste, and fresh water resources. You will be able to combine our rich course offerings with electives of your choice, in order to construct an interdisciplinary plan of study for your major. While providing you with the theoretical and practical foundation that you will require for your professional and academic future, our major is tailored to the needs of our global explorer students, as it combines and transcends established disciplines, while relying heavily on听the听plurality of听our students鈥櫶齨ational and cultural life experiences.

The educational goals for this major are as follows:

• You will demonstrate a general understanding of the physical processes that drive global ecologies along with in-depth knowledge of specific ecosystems and case studies.
• You will analyze the historical emergence of global environmental issues from the physical, political, economic and social perspective.
• You will analyze the political, social and ethical implications of emerging global environmental issues.
• You will demonstrate effective academic writing and oral presentation skills.

We are committed to providing non-scientists with the theoretical and practical foundation that will allow them to听thrive within听this听or any other discipline.听In your small classes and labs, you will be introduced to key environmental concepts and approaches, be trained in the scientific method, focus on specific cases of environmental emergency,听and听explore the relationships among environment, economics, and development.听

With every single one of our majors, you鈥檒l find a carefully curated medley of core courses and electives, which will provide you with the tools you need to establish an unshakeable foundation in the principles and concepts fundamental to your growth within your disciplines of choice. Many majors also enable you to specialize further within the broader area of study.

The Environmental Studies core courses, which you must take as part of the major requirements, will provide you with the tools you鈥檒l need to ground your present and future studies. Your introduction to the fundamentals of Environmental Studies will help pave the way for your successful completion of other Environmental Studies courses.