Environmental Studies Major

Advisers Baptiste, Burnett, Cardelús, Frey, Fuller, Globus-Harris, Helfant, Henke, Kawall, E. Kraly, Levy, Loranty, McCay, Parks, Pattison, Tseng

The environmental studies major combines breadth in analytical perspectives, interdisciplinary courses in which students learn to combine analytical perspectives, and depth in a focus area of each student’s choosing. The courses below are required for the major.

Major Requirements

Environmental Studies Courses (four)

All of the Following

ENST 202
/PHIL 202 - Environmental Ethics
ENST 390 - Community-based Study of Environmental Issues
Note:
ENST 389
/
ENST 389L
may be taken in place of ENST 390
ENST 490 - Seminar in Environmental Studies

One of the Following

One Additional Interdisciplinary Course Focused on the Environment

One full-credit course or two half-credit courses from the following list:

CORE 123S - Climate Change and Human History
CORE 128S - Global Change and You
CORE C175/175C - Wilderness
CORE 178S - Water
CORE 181S - Cooperation & the Environment
ENST 240 - Sustainability: Science and Analysis
ENST 291 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
ENST 391 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
ENST 491 - Independent Study (with permission of the program director)
ENST 309 - Australian Environmental Issues (Study Group)
ENST 313
  /
ASIA 313
  /
SOCI 313 Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
ENST 321 - Global Environmental Justice (if it is not used to fulfill the Environmental Studies requirement)
GEOG 105 - Climate and Society
GEOG 323
/
REST 323 - Arctic Transformations
HIST 302 - Global Toxic History (TR)

Methods Course

One full-credit course or two half-credit courses from the following list, or with permission of the program director another methods course appropriate for the student’s chosen field of study:

Courses Providing Breadth of Analytical Perspectives (three)

Earth Systems and Processes

One of the following courses:

Social Science Investigations of Environmental Issues

One of the following courses:

Arts and Humanities Courses Related to the Environment

One of the following courses:

ARTS 271 - Architectural Design I (SA)
ARTS 274 - Sustainability in Architectural Design (SA)
ENGL 204 - Native American Writers
ENST 219 - American Literature and the Environment
ENGL 336 - Native American Literature
ENGL 420 - Emerson and Thoreau
ENST 324 - Hunting, Eating, Vegetarianism
GERM 326 - Germany and the Environmental Imagination
HIST 224 - Introduction to Environmental History (TR)
LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
PHIL 313 - International Ethics (VT) (with permission of the program director)
PHIL 333 - Topics in Environmental Philosophy
RELG 236 - Religion, Science, and the Environment
An additional course that satisfies the
Interdisciplinary Courses Focused on the Environment
requirement with the permission of the program director
Additional Arts and Humanities courses related to the environment may be used to satisfy this requirement with permission of the program director

Focus in a Particular Field of Study

Four courses (or a combination of full- and partial-credit courses, not including labs, that add up to four full-course credits) that provide depth in a field of study. No more than one of these courses can be at an introductory level, and at least one must be at an advanced level. These courses are in addition to those used to satisfy the requirements listed above. With permission of the program director any four courses that combine to provide depth in a field of study may be used, but normally all of the four courses used to satisfy this requirement will be from the same department or from the same one of the lists of requirements in:

Earth Systems and Processes

Social Science Investigations of Environmental Issues

Arts and Humanities Courses Related to the Environment

With permission of the program director, this requirement may be waived if a student has a second major or a minor.

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Environmental Studies program page.

Environmental Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Environmental Studies program catalog page.