Environment and Sustainability, Minor
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 Credits: 19
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | 4 | |
| Introduction to Environment and Sustainability | ||
| Seminar Topics in Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| 12 credits with courses from at least two of the three categories (environmental humanities, environmental social science, environmental natural science) | 12 | |
| Foundation in Environmental Humanities | ||
| Advanced Topics in American Studies (Environmental Thinking) | ||
| Introduction to Native Studies | ||
| Environmental Anthropology | ||
| Art and Ecology | ||
| Seminar Topics in Art History (Art & Environmental Justice) | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Conservation Ethics | ||
| 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 | ||
| Topics in Environmental History | ||
| Emergent Ecologies | ||
| 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) | ||
| Issues in Environmental Ethics | ||
Or other approved course | ||
| Foundation in Environmental Social Sciences | ||
| 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 | ||
CONS 440 Sustainable Livelihoods | ||
| Political Ecology of Conservation | ||
| Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | ||
| Economics of Climate Change | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Policy | ||
| Topics in Environmental Social Sciences | ||
| Global Environmental Politics | ||
| Topics in Government (Political Economy of Extreme Weather) | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Political Ecology of Health & Disease | ||
Or other approved course | ||
| Foundation in Environmental Natural Science | ||
| Introduction to Organisms, Ecology, Evolution | ||
| Ecology | ||
| Evolution of Organisms | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Intro to Ornithology | ||
| Population and Community Ecology | ||
| Aquatic Ecology | ||
| Wetland Ecosystems | ||
| Entomology | ||
| Marine Invertebrate Biology | ||
| Advanced Seminar in Biology (Marine Ecology) | ||
| The Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology | ||
| Earth's Environmental Systems: Physical Geography | ||
| Age of Dinosaurs | ||
| Planetary Geology | ||
| Global Climate Change | ||
| Geologic Evolution of VA | ||
| Environmental Geology | ||
| Regional Field Geology | ||
| Field Methods in the Earth Sciences | ||
| Watershed Dynamics | ||
| Hydrology | ||
| Environmental Geochemistry | ||
| Earth Surface Processes | ||
| Paleoclimatology & Paleoceanography | ||
| Paleontology | ||
Or other approved course | ||
| Capstone Experience | 3 | |
| Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy | ||
| Independent Research | ||
| Honors | ||
| Internship | ||
| Total Hours | 19 | |