BA.SO.EN - Sociology-Environmental Studies (Major)
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Program Electives
Environmental Studies Electives
Course substitutions for Foundational and Interdisciplinary coursework must be approved by the Environmental Studies Committee.
Foundational Humanities Courses
All Environmental Studies majors except those concentrating in Environmental Humanities must take at least two of the following courses. Art-Environmental Studies majors only need to take one Humanities course chosen from this list.
ARTH-226 CLAS-319 ENVS-319 | Landscape and Cityscape in Ancient Rome |
ARTH-351 | Los Angeles: Art, Architecture, Cultural Geography |
ARTH-352 | Art/Environment |
CLAS-171 REL-171 | Apocalypse: Ancient and Modern Visions of the End |
CLAS-205 ENVS-205 | Women and Nature in the Ancient World |
CLAS-217 ENVS-217 | Classical Foundations of the Nature Writing Tradition |
CLAS-226 ENVS-226 | Conceptions of Nature in Greek and Roman Thought |
ENVS-102 | Special Topics - Introductory Environmental Humanities (all offerings) |
ENVS-110 | Semester in the West: Field Methods and Practices (Humanities) |
ENVS-202 | Special Topics - Introductory Environmental Humanities (all offerings) |
ENVS-212 | Introduction to Environmental Humanities |
ENVS-216 | What is “Nature Writing”? |
ENVS-227 PHIL-227 | Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy |
ENVS-230 | The Cultural and Literary Life of Rivers |
ENVS-235 | The Pastoral, the Wild, and the Commons |
ENVS-247 | The Literature of Nature |
ENVS-302 | Special Topics - Intermediate Environmental Humanities (all offerings) |
ENVS-308 | (Re)Thinking Environment |
ENVS-335 GERM-335 | Romantic Nature |
ENVS-339 | Writing Environmental Disasters |
ENVS-340 | Environmental Radicals in Literature |
ENVS-347 | The Nature Essay |
ENVS-349 | Regional Literatures of Place: The West and the South |
ENVS-358 | Ecocriticism |
ENVS-360 | Environmental Writing and the American West |
ENVS-365 | Other Earths: Environmental Change and Speculative Fiction |
GEOL-338 | Pages of Stone: The Literature of Geology |
PHIL-120 | Environmental Ethics |
PHIL-262 | Animals and Philosophy |
Foundational Natural and Physical Sciences Courses
All Environmental Studies majors except those concentrating in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or Physics must take at least seven credits from the following courses. Credits must come from at least two different departments and include at least one course with a lab.
Lab Courses
BIOL-115 | Natural History and Ecology |
BIOL-130 | Conservation Biology |
ENVS-115 | Semester in the West: Field Methods and Practices (Environmental Science) |
GEOL-110, GEOL-111 | The Physical Earth, The Physical Earth Lab |
GEOL-120, GEOL-121 | Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest/Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest Lab |
GEOL-120, GEOL-125 | Environmental Geology, Environmental Geology Lab |
Non-Lab Courses
BIOL-210 | When is science reliable? |
CHEM-100 | Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science |
ENVS-201 | Special Topics - Introductory Environmental Sciences (all offerings) |
ENVS-301 | Special Topics - Intermediate Environmental Sciences (all offerings) |
GEOL-130 | Weather and Climate |
GEOL-150 | Earth’s Climate: Past, Present, & Future |
GEOL-229 | Geology and Ecology of Soils |
GEOL-258 | Geology in the Field |
PHYS-105 | Energy and the Environment |
Interdisciplinary Courses
All Environmental Studies majors, regardless of concentration, must take at least one of the following courses.
ENVS-203 | Special Topics - Introductory Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (all offerings) |
ENVS-303 | Special Topics - Intermediate Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (all offerings) |
ENVS-305 | Water in the West |
ENVS-307 | Beastly Modernity: Animals in the 19th Century |
ENVS-310 | Semester in the West: Interdisciplinary Study of Environmental Problems |
ENVS-314 | Art and the Anthropocene |
ENVS-321 | History and Ethnobiology of the Silk Roads |
ENVS-322 | The Anthropocene |
ENVS-325 | Disasters |
ENVS-327 | Biodiversity |
ENVS-329 | Environmental Health |
ENVS-345 | The Cultural Worlds of Mountains |
ENVS-350 | Politics of Salmon |
ENVS-353 | Environmental Justice |
ENVS-362 | Food, Culture, and Politics |
ENVS-408 | SW Western Epiphanies: Integrated Project |
ENVS-459 | Interdisciplinary Fieldwork |