Apr 05, 2025

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

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Environmental Studies

Chair(s):

Faculty:

Jules Bacon - Sociology
Vince Eckhart - Biology
Kathy Jacobson - Biology
Cori Jakubiak - Education
Hai-Dang Phan - English
Elizabeth Queathem - Biology

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.

Concentration requirements: 24 credits as follows:

1. Geology

4 credits, chosen from:

ENV 125 - Introduction to Earth Systems Science with Lab 4 credits or the cross-listed SCI 125
Colorado College Summer Geology Institute, Geology of the Pikes Peak Region

2. Biology or Chemistry

4 credits, chosen from:

BIO 150 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits
BIO 252 - Organisms, Evolution, and Ecology 4 credits
BIO 339 - Biogeochemistry 4 credits
CHM 210 - Analytical Chemistry 4 credits
CHM 240 - Environmental Chemistry 4 credits or the cross-listed ENV 240

3. Economics

4 credits:

ECN 240 - Resource and Environmental Economics 4 credits

4. Electives

8 credits, chosen from:

ANT 205 - Human Evolution 4 credits
ANT 238 - Environmental Anthropology 4 credits
ANT 252 - Culture and Agriculture 4 credits
EDU 218 - Place-Based Education 4 credits
ENG 210 - Studies in Genre 4 credits (with approval from the ENV committee)
ENG 231 - American Literary Traditions III 4 credits (with approval from the ENV committee)
ENG 232 - Traditions of Ethnic American Literature 4 credits (with approval from the ENV committee)
ENV 145 - Nations and the Global Environment 4 credits
GDS 251 - Water, Development, and the Environment 4 credits or the cross-listed ENV 251
GDS 261 - Climate Change, Development and the Environment 4 credits or the cross-listed ENV 261
HIS 220 - U.S. Environmental History 4 credits
PHI 222 - Environmental Ethics 4 credits
SST 225 - Applied Geographic Information Systems Analysis (GIS) 4 credits
XXX 295 Special Topics 4 credits - as approved by the ENV committee

Note: No more than 4 credits from the same department or academic unit may be used to satisfy the elective requirement.

5. Senior seminar

4 credits:

ENV 495 - Senior Seminar 4 credits

Environmental Studies Courses

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