Environmental Studies Concentration

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Chair(s):

Jonathon Andelson

The interdisciplinary nature of this concentration illuminates the relationship between humans and their natural environment, and provides a basic background for rational and discriminating comprehension of environmental issues. Participation in the off-campus study programs, ACM Costa Rica: Tropical Field Research Semester, OTS, or Wilderness Field Station may, with the program chair’s approval, satisfy some of the requirements below.

Required, 24 credits as follows:

1. Biology

4 credits, chosen from:

BIO 150 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits
BIO 252 - Organisms, Evolution, and Ecology 4 credits

2. Chemistry

4 credits:

BIO 339 - Biogeochemistry 4 credits
CHM 210 - Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry 4 credits

3. Geology

4 credits, chosen from:

ENV 111 - Introductory Geology 4 credits
ENV 125 - Introduction to Earth Systems Science with Lab 4 credits
Colorado College Summer Geology Institute, Geology of the Pikes Peak Region

4. Economics

4 credits:

ECN 240 - Resource and Environmental Economics 4 credits

5. Additional social science

4 credits, chosen from:

ANT 205 - Human Evolution 4 credits
ANT 238 - Cultural and Political Ecology 4 credits
ANT 252 - Culture and Agriculture 4 credits
ANT 325 - Biological Basis of Human Society 4 credits
ENV 145 - Nations and the Global Environment 4 credits
GDS 251 - Water, Development, and the Environment 4 credits
GDS 346 - Sustainable Development in the Modern World System 4 credits
GDS 261 - Climate Change, Development and the Environment 4 credits
HIS 220 - U.S. Environmental History 4 credits
POL 350 - International Politics of Land and Sea Resources 4 credits
SST 221 - Geographical Analysis and Cartography 4 credits
TEC 154 - Evolution of Technology 4 credits

6. Senior seminar

4 credits:

ENV 495 - Senior Seminar 4 credits