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Environmental Studies >
Environmental Studies
PROGRAM DIRECTOR:
Professor Colin M. Orians, Biology and Environmental
Studies
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Professor Ujjayant Chakravorty, Economics and
Environmental Studies
Professor Jonathan E. Kenny, Chemistry
Professor J. Michael Reed, Biology
Professor Jack Ridge, Earth and Ocean Sciences
Associate Professor John Durant, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Assistant Professor Alexander Blanchette, Anthropology
and Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor Andrew Kemp, Earth and Ocean
Sciences and Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor Karen Kosinski, Community Health
Program
Lecturer Ann Rappaport, Urban and Environmental Policy
and Planning
ACADEMIC ADVISORS:
Director and Senior Lecturer Julie Dobrow,
Communications & Media Studies and Child Development
Professor Elizabeth Ammons, English
Professor Ujjayant Chakravorty, Economics and
Environmental Studies
Professor Jonathan E. Kenny, Chemistry
Professor Kent Portney, Political Science
Professor J. Michael Reed, Biology
Professor Jack Ridge, Earth and Ocean Sciences
Professor Modhumita Roy, English
Associate Professor John Durant, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Associate Professor George S. Ellmore, Draupner Ring
Scholar; Biology
Associate Professor Patrick Forber, Philosophy
Associate Professor David Gute, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Associate Professor Jeanne Penvenne, History
Associate Professor Albert Robbat, Chemistry
Assistant Professor Alexander Blanchette, Anthropology
and Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor Andrew Kemp, Earth and Ocean
Sciences and Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor Kelsey Jack, Economics
Assistant Professor Nimah Mazaheri, Political Science
Lecturer Ann Rappaport, Urban and Environmental Policy
and Planning
Lecturer Robert Russell, Urban and Environmental Policy
and Planning
Environmental Studies is a multidisciplinary
undergraduate program created to promote the
study of our natural surroundings, designs that help
minimize degradation of those surroundings, and
the social and political tools needed to preserve and
improve the environment. The program provides
training in social sciences, natural sciences,
engineering, and humanities.
Environmental Studies is offered as a dual major
in conjunction with any stand-alone major in the
School of Arts and Sciences and the School of
Engineering. This dual-major program (which must
also satisfy the other university requirements for a
degree) combines the depth of a major in a specific
field with a wide breadth of environmentally
oriented courses offered in any one of the tracks.
Students who choose this major must declare the
major, choose a track in consultation with the
program and with an appropriate advisor and plan
a course of study.
Beginning with the class of 2016, and optional
for prior classes, the Environmental Studies major
requires the completion of five core courses, plus
five courses in any one track, and an internship. The
core curriculum requires students to master basic
scientific principles of environmental processes, to
examine interactions between technology and the
environment, and to explore the societal context for
implementing environmental policy. We recommend
that students begin the major by taking Environmental
Biology (Bio7/Env7) in the fall semester. In
addition to the new core curriculum, students are
required to take five courses in a specific track. The
revised tracks include Track I: Environmental
Science; Track II: Sustainability, Policy, and Equity;
Track III: Environmental Communications; Track
IV: Food Systems and the Environment; and Track
V: Self-Designed with Advisor. The track courses
must include one introduction to the track course;
three additional courses, one of which must be a
seminar; and a methods or research course. Student
may double count courses, but no more than three
courses can count for both their two declared
majors.
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