Environment and Sustainability, Environmental Science Track, (BS in Interdisciplinary Studies)
The Environment & Sustainability Program
The Environment & Sustainability Program (ENSP) seeks to provide students with the ability to recognize the complex environmental problems threatening our planet and create potential paths towards a more sustainable future. Taking courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, students majoring and minoring in ENSP develop an interdisciplinary toolkit to identify, analyze, and ameliorate the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Majors have the option to pursue one of three tracks: Environmental Humanities (B.A.), Environmental Science (B.S.), or Environmental Policy (B.A.). Each track provides students with the opportunity to obtain more depth in their area of interest. ENSP graduates regularly find an array of employment opportunities in business, government, and non-profit organizations. In addition, many ENSP graduates go on to pursue advanced degrees in environmental science, environmental studies, business, law, and other disciplines.
For further information, updates, and additional descriptive visit https://www.wm.edu/environment.
Required Credit Hours: 32
Course Requirements
The following courses are required proficiencies and are not included in ENSP Science Track credit total:
- Adv. Math Proficiency - MATH 131 Calculus I for Life Sciences (4 cr)
- Introduction to Biology - BIOL 204+BIOL 204L Introduction to Organisms, Ecology, Evolution Laboratory (4 cr)
- Introduction to Geology - GEOL 101 The Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology/GEOL 110 Earth's Environmental Systems: Physical Geography+GEOL 160 Investigating the Earth: Introductory Geology Laboratory OR GEOL 250 Geologic Evolution of VA (4 cr)
- Introduction to Chemistry - CHEM 103 General Chemistry I + CHEM 103L General Chemistry Lab I (4 cr)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Environment & Sustainability | 3 | |
| Introduction to Environment and Sustainability | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Policy | 3 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Policy | ||
| Intro to Public Policy | ||
| Methods in Environment & Sustainability | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Conservation GIS | ||
| Quantitative Methods in Conservation | ||
| Principles and Methods of Statistics | ||
| Econometrics | ||
| Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis | ||
| Topics in Government (Quantitative Methods) | ||
or other approved GIS or Statistics course | ||
| Speaker Series on Environment & Sustainability | 1 | |
| Seminar Topics in Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Additional Env Natural Science Course in Biology | 3 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Integrative Biology: Animals | ||
| Integrative Biology: Plants | ||
| Ecology | ||
| Evolution of Organisms | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Population and Community Ecology | ||
| Entomology | ||
| Marine Invertebrate Biology | ||
| Advanced Seminar in Biology (Marine Ecology) | ||
| Additional Env Natural Science Course in Geology | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Age of Dinosaurs | ||
| Planetary Geology | ||
| Global Climate Change | ||
| Environmental Geology | ||
| Regional Field Geology | ||
| Paleontology | ||
MSCI 421 | ||
or other approved course | ||
| Natural Science Course with Field Lab Component | 4 | |
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Intro to Ornithology | ||
| Aquatic Ecology | ||
| Wetland Ecosystems | ||
| Entomology and Entomology Lab | ||
| Field Methods in the Earth Sciences | ||
| Watershed Dynamics | ||
| Hydrology | ||
| Environmental Geochemistry | ||
| Earth Surface Processes | ||
| Paleoclimatology & Paleoceanography | ||
or other approved course | ||
| Environmental Ethics & Justice | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Conservation Ethics | ||
| Emergent Ecologies | ||
| Earth Science for Environmental Justice | ||
| Issues in Environmental Ethics | ||
or other approved course | ||
| Environmental Social Sciences | ||
| Select one of the following: | ||
| The Anthropocene | ||
| Environ Archaeology | ||
| Archaeology of North America | ||
| Native Cultures of South America | ||
| People, Cultures, and the Environment of Polynesia | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Sustainability Inspired Innovation and Design | ||
| Political Ecology of Conservation | ||
| Sustainable Livelihoods | ||
| Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | ||
| Economics of Climate Change | ||
| Topics in Ed Studies (Educating for Climate Justsice) | ||
| Topics in Environmental Social Sciences | ||
| Political Economy of Extreme Weather | ||
| Global Environmental Politics | ||
| Topics in Government (Political Economy of Climate Change) | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Political Ecology of Health & Disease (Or other approved course) | ||
| Environmental Humanities | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Native Studies | ||
| Environmental Anthropology | ||
| Art and Ecology | ||
| Seminar Topics in Art History (Art & Environmental Justice) | ||
| Indigenous Knowledges & Conservation | ||
| Studies in Contemporary Literature (Literature of the Anthropocene) | ||
| Topics in British Literature Before 1700 (Early Modern Ecologies) | ||
| Topics in Environmental Arts, Literature, & Film | ||
| Seminar in Film and Media Studies (Eco Cinema) | ||
| Environmental Cultures | ||
| American West, 1890- | ||
| Ecocritical Italy: Narrating the Anthropocene | ||
| Topics in Japanese Literature and Culture (Cultures of Catastrophe) | ||
or other approved course | ||
| Capstone Experience | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Independent Research | ||
| Honors | ||
| Internship | ||
| Major Computing & Writing Requirement | ||
| Select one of the following: 1 | 3 | |
| Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Independent Research | ||
| Honors | ||
| Internship | ||
| Total Hours | 32 | |