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The Environmental Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program
of study requiring an understanding of the sciences, social sciences and the humanities, designed to
educate students in a broad class of issues related
to the environment and humanity’s place in the natural
world. Students are educated not as experts in any one discipline but to understand how insights from different
disciplines complement each other. This is not only
a unique academic experience but it also expands the students capacity as citizens, aware of the scientific, ethical, and
policy issues they will face in their local communities, their professions and
in the broader world community.
The Environmental Studies Program is NOT a major, and
students may not complete both the program and the major in environmental
studies in geology. Students interested in the Environmental Studies Program are
encouraged to e-mail the director of
the program,
Professor Kahn, early in their academic careers
in order to plan a program best structured to their academic needs and career
plans.
Students identified by the director of the program as having completed
the requirements will have a notation placed on their transcripts at graduation.
The program requires completion of the following 25 or 26 credits:
1. Required courses:
a. Interdepartmental 110 - Introduction to Environmental Studies
b.
Interdepartmental 397 - Senior Seminar
in Environmental Studies
2. Social Sciences: One
course from each of the following two areas.
a. Economics 101 - Principles of Microeconomics;
Politics 100 - American National Government,
b. Economics
255- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Interdepartmental 240-Global
Environmental Governance, Economics 381- Economics of Environment: Developing
Countries, Politics
233 - Environmental Policy and Law
3. Natural and Physical Sciences: one course from each of the following two areas.
a.
Biology 101, - Environmental Biology,
Geology 100 - General Geology with Field Emphasis or
Geology 101 - General Geology,
b. Biology
245 - Ecology, Biology 246 - Biological Diversity,
Geology 141 - Global Climate Change, Geology 150 - Water Resources (offered
Winter 2004 and alternating years)
4. Humanities: two courses chosen from:
a.
English 380 - Advance Seminar (when appropriate such as American
Environmental Writing),
b.
Interdepartmental 395 - Special Topics in Environmental Ethics, or
c.
Philosophy 260 - Philosophy of Nature
d. Philosophy 108 - Ethics and the Environment
Most of these courses fulfill certain general education requirements and
may be applicable to the majors in
each of the departments.
In addition to the courses in the interdisciplinary program, several
other courses on campus address environmental subjects.
Chemistry 110 - Chemistry of The Earth
Geology 135 - Meteorology
Geology 146 - Geology of Natural Resources
Geology 201 - Oceanography
Geology 397 - Seminar (when appropriate)
Physics 110 - Energy and the Environment
Note that many departments offer special topics courses and that these
often have environmental studies themes.
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Environmental
Studies in the W&L Catalogue
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