Environmental Studies Major

Degree Type
Bachelor of Arts, BA
Program

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary field, drawing from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities to help us understand and work with the environment in which we live.  Students majoring in Environmental Studies at Converse take a diversity of courses in these fields to expose them to human understanding of the environment.  Additional courses in statistics and data science give them skills to evaluate environmental data.  Students completing this liberal arts major should be able to critically evaluate and persuasively write and speak about environmental issues.

 

Required Courses (26-27 credit hours)

Item #
Title
Credits
3 - 4
Sub-Total Credits
23-24

Environmental Social Science

Choose one of the following: 

Item #
Title
Credits
Sub-Total Credits
3

Environmental Humanities

Choose one of the following: 

Item #
Title
Credits
3
Sub-Total Credits
3

Additional Environmental Social Science or Environmental Humanites

Choose one course not already taken in the Environmental Social Science and Environmental Humanities section: 

 

Item #
Title
Credits
3
Sub-Total Credits
3

Environmental Math and Natural Science Course

Choose one of the following AND the appropriate prerequisite:

Item #
Title
Credits
4 - 8
4 - 8
Sub-Total Credits
7-8
Total Credits
42-44