Environmental Studies Major

All of the Following

• ENST 200 - Environmental Science: Challenges and Solutions
• ENST 202
   /
  PHIL 202 - Environmental Ethics
   
• ENST 450 - Community-based Study of Environmental Issues
• GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems and 
  GEOG 245L
   

• Note: By permission of the director, 

  ENST 389
   /
  ENST 389L
    may be taken in place of
  ENST 450
   /
  ENST 450L
    

One of the following courses on environmental justice:

• ENST 232 - Environmental Justice
• ENST 321 - Global Environmental Justice

One of the following courses on environmental economics and policy:

• ECON 228 - Environmental Economics
• ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
• ENST 335
   /
  POSC 335 - U.S. Environmental Politics
   

One of the following courses in environmental science:

• CHEM 100 - The Chemistry of Altered and Natural Environments
• ENST 240 - Sustainability: Science and Analysis
• GEOG 231 - Geography of the Physical Environment
• GEOL 101
   /
  101L - Environmental Geology
   
• GEOL 102 - Sustainable Earth
• GEOL 135 - Oceanography and the Environment
• GEOL 190 - Evolution of Planet Earth

One of the following courses in environmental arts and humanities:

• ARTS 271 - Architectural Design I
• ARTS 274 - Sustainability in Architectural Design
• ENGL 152 - Plant, Animal, Mineral: American Literature and Extractive Industry
• ENGL 204 - Native American Writers

• ENGL
   /
  ENST 219 - American Literature and the Environment
   

• ENGL 336 - Native American Literature
• ENGL 420 - Emerson and Thoreau
• ENST 324 - Hunting, Eating, Vegetarianism
• ENST 334 - Carnivores Across Cultures
• HIST 224 - Introduction to Environmental History (TR)
• HIST 302 - Global Toxic History (TR)
• LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
• LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
• PHIL 313 - International Ethics (VT)
• RELG 236 - Religion, Science, and the Environment

Two of the following environmental studies electives:

Note: One of these courses must be an ENST offering (or cross-listed with ENST) and one of the courses must be taken at the 300-level or above. A single course may satisfy both of these requirements, but two electives in total are required. Courses may not double count for both an elective and the other major requirements listed above.

• ANTH
   /
  SOCI 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
    
• ALST 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
• ARTS 271 - Architectural Design I
• ARTS 274 - Sustainability in Architectural Design
• BIOL 181
   /
  BIOL 181L - Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity
    
• BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
• BIOL 332 - Tropical Ecology
• BIOL 335
   /
  BIOL 335L - Limnology
   
• BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
• BIOL 340 - Marine Biology
• CHEM 100 - The Chemistry of Altered and Natural Environments
• CORE C175 - Wilderness
• CORE S178 - Water
• ECON 228 - Environmental Economics
• ECON 383 - Natural Resource Economics
• ENGL 204 - Native American Writers
• ENGL 219
   /
  ENST 219 - American Literature and the Environment
    
• ENGL 336 - Native American Literature
• ENGL 420 - Emerson and Thoreau
• ENST 232 - Environmental Justice
• ENST 234 - Case Studies in Global Environmental Health
• ENST 240 - Sustainability: Science and Analysis
• ENST 241 - Sustainability and Climate Action Planning
• ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
• ENST 291 - Independent Study
• ENST 309 - Australian Environmental Issues (Study Group)
• ENST
   /
  ASIA
   /
  SOCI 313 - Environmental Problems and Environmental Activism in the People’s Republic of China
    
• ENST
   /
  SOCI 319 - Food
    
• ENST 321 - Global Environmental Justice
• ENST 324 - Hunting, Eating, Vegetarianism
• ENST 334 - Carnivores Across Cultures
• ENST
   /
  POSC 335 - U.S. Environmental Politics
   
• ENST 340 - Environmental Cleanup: Methods and Regulation
• ENST 345 - Water Pollution: Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
• ENST 358 - Ecosystems, Environmental Threats, and response in Trinidad and Tobago (Study Group)
• ENST
   /
  ENST 389L - Conservation Biology & Policy
   
• ENST 391 - Independent Study
• GEOG 105 - Climate and Society
• GEOG 107 - Is the Planet Doomed?
• GEOG 211 - Geographies of Nature, Economy, Society
• GEOG 231 - Geography of the Physical Environment
• GEOG 307 - What’s in Your Cup? The Geography of What We Drink
• GEOG 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
• GEOG 315 - Sustainable Livelihoods in Asia
• GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
• GEOG 322 - Ecologies of the City
• GEOG
   /
  REST 323 - Arctic Transformations
   
• GEOG 325 - Water and Society
• GEOG 326 - Environmental Hazards
• GEOG 328 - Sustainability and Natural Resources
• GEOG 329 - Environmental Security
• GEOG 331 - Environmental Data Science
• GEOG 332 - Weather and Climate
• GEOG 335 - Soil Geography
• GEOG 336 - Biogeography
• GEOG 338 - Earth System Ecology
• GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology
• GEOL 102 - Sustainable Earth
• GEOL 135 - Oceanography and the Environment
• GEOL 190 - Evolution of Planet Earth
• GEOL
   /
  GEOL 215L - Paleontology of Marine Life
   
• GEOL 310 - Environmental Economic Geology
• GEOL 315 - Conservation Paleobiology
• GEOL
   /
  GEOL 335L - Hydrology and Geomorphology
   
• GEOL 303 - Geochemistry
• GEOL 416 - Marine Geology
• GEOL 450 - Paleoclimatology
• HIST 224 - Introduction to Environmental History (TR)
• HIST 302 - Global Toxic History (TR)
• LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
• LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
• PHIL 313 - International Ethics (VT)
• RELG 236 - Religion, Science, and the Environment

Honors and High Honors

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