B.A. in Environmental Studies
The Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies meets the requirements of a variety of career paths and graduate studies related to the relationships between environmental, social, and economic issues and policies, but does so in a more liberal and less prescribed way than the B.S. in Environmental Studies. Students must complete courses from a series of categories (Arts and Humanities, Business, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Statistics) as well as upper-level electives to be determined in consultation with advisors.
Degree Requirements
Arts and Humanities Requirement (choose one):
Business Requirement (choose one):
| BUS 101 | Introduction to Global Business | 4 |
| BUS 221 | Business Law and Social Responsibility | 4 |
| ECO 310 | Environmental Economics and Management | 4 |
| MGT 360 | Sustainable Development: A New Business Paradigm | 4 |
| MGT 365 | Business Strategies for Emerging and the Base of the Pyramid Markets | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Social Sciences Requirement (choose one):
| GEO 205 | Principles of Resource Utilization | 4 |
| GEO 207 | Economic Geography | 4 |
| GEO 250 | Urban Geography: Cities in Global Context | 4 |
| PSC 285 | Environmental Politics | 4 |
| PSC 318 | Science, Technology and Public Policy | 4 |
| SOC 330 | Global Sociology | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Statistics Requirement (choose one):
| BIO 230 | Experimental Design and Biostatistics | 4 |
| HSC 350 | Biostatistics | 4 |
| MAT 201 | Introduction to Statistics | 4 |
| PSC 269 | Research Methods for Political Science | 4 |
| QMB 210 | Business Statistics and Analytics | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Upper-Level Electives (choose two):
| | Any two of the above listed courses not already being used to satisfy a category | |
| | or | |
| SPE 308 | Group Presentation and Leading Change | 4 |
| PSC 343 | Politics of Development | 4 |
| PSC 455 | NGOs and Global Civil Society | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 6-8 |
Natural Sciences Requirement (choose one):
| BIO 199 | General Biology II | 3 |
| BIO 199L | General Biology II Laboratory | 1 |
| BIO 205 | Tropical Biology and Conservation | 4 |
| BIO 212 | Ecology | 4 |
| BIO 212L | Ecology Laboratory | 0 |
| BIO 228 | Biology of Plants | 4 |
| BIO 228L | Biology of Plants Laboratory | 0 |
| BIO 355 | Conservation, Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics | 4 |
| BIO 355L | Conservation, Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics Laboratory | 0 |
| BIO 395 | Disease Ecology | 4 |
| CHE 128 | Introductory Chemistry | 4 |
| CHE 180 | Environmental Chemistry | 3 |
| CHE 315 | Chemical Oceanography | 3 |
| ENS 122 | Global Sustainability | 4 |
| ENS 242 | Environmental Science and Policy | 4 |
| ENS 242L | Environmental Science and Policy Discussion | 0 |
| ENS 250 | Environmental Justice | 4 |
| ENS 307 | Environmental Microbiology | 4 |
| ENS 307L | Environmental Microbiology Laboratory | 0 |
| ENS 335 | Fisheries Science and Management | 4 |
| ENS 346 | Conservation Biology | 4 |
| ENS 346L | Conservation Biology Discussion | 0 |
| ENS 349 | Water, Wetlands and Wildlife | 4 |
| ENS 380 | Environmental Methods and Technology | 4 |
| ENS 380L | Environmental Methods and Technology Laboratory | 0 |
| ENS 399 | Environmental Studies Career Seminar | 1 |
| ENS 490 | Environmental Studies Internship | 1-4 |
| ENS 495 | Special Topics in Environmental Studies | 1-4 |
| HSC 240 | Global Disparities in Environmental Health | 4 |
| MAR 126 | Marine Biology | 4 |
| MAR 200 | Introduction to Marine Science | 3 |
| MAR 201 | Marine Geology | 4 |
| MAR 201L | Marine Geology Laboratory | 0 |
| MAR 222 | Marine Ecology | 4 |
| MAR 222L | Marine Ecology Laboratory | 0 |
| MAR 310 | Biological Oceanography | 4 |
| MAR 310L | Biological Oceanography Laboratory | 0 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 3-4 |
Total Credit Hours: 25-28