Environmental Studies Major
Contact:
Angela Moore, Assistant Professor of Geology
Kyle Dell, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Environmental studies provides an interdisciplinary program that emphasizes the relationship between humans and the environment. It allows students to study and address fundamental issues of our times--the quality of the Earth's environment and the sustainable use of its natural resources.
The program focuses on justice, global awareness, and service to the larger community while respecting the concept of nature as sacred and Guilford's Quaker heritage. The Guilford environmental studies program is an overlap of many disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, business and policy studies, arts, and natural sciences.
Degrees Offered
The Bachelor of Arts is offered in environmental studies.
Major Requirements
Environmental studies is an interdisciplinary major that requires a second disciplinary major and an advisor in each. The major requires a minimum of 32 credit hours (eight courses).
1. ENVS 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies |
4 credits |
2. PSCI 319 Modern Environmental Problems |
4 credits |
3. IDS 472 Environmental Planning |
4 credits |
4-6. Science support courses (1 course from each of three levels) |
12 credits |
Level 1 |
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BIOL 112 Integravitve Biology: Organisms, Ecology and Evolution |
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CHEM 105 Chemistry of Recycling |
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CHEM 111 Chemical Principles I |
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GEOL 121 Geology and Environment |
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GEOL 141 Oceanography |
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Level 2 |
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BIOL 212 Environmental Science |
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BIOL 224 Field Botany |
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BIOL 233 NC Freshwater Fishes |
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BIOL 235 Vertebrate Field Zoology |
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CHEM 341 Instrumental Analysis |
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MATH 112 Elementary Statistics* |
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Level 3 |
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BIOL 334 Animal Behavior |
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BIOL 336 Ornithology |
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BIOL 438 General Ecology |
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GEOL 223 Hydrology |
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GEOL 340 Images of the Earth |
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GEOL 416 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy |
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7. Non-science support courses (1 course) |
4 credits |
ART 254 Sculpture and the Environment |
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ECON 222 Micro: Public Policy |
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ECON 301 Research Methods |
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ENGL 225 American Literature Survey I |
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PHIL 242 Environmental Ethics |
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PSCI 318 Environmentalism in Early America |
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SOAN 225 Culture and the Environment |
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8. One course from either science or non-science support courses listed above. |
4 credits |
Total credits hours required for A.B. degree in environmental studies |
32 credits |
*ECON 301 may be substituted by petition for MATH 112. Appropriate internships or independent studies can be substituted for both science and non-science electives by petition and approval of the program coordinator.