Spring 2025

Gateway to the majors and minors in environmental studies. Provides students with an overview of how government agencies and societal institutions address (or fail to address) the interrelated social and scientific aspects of environmental problems and policies.

Exploration of the major social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical disagreements that exist between scholars, leaders, and citizens concerning today's most serious environmental issues and problems. Not available for credit to environmental studies majors and minors.

Extensive academic preparation in the physics, physiology, safety, and methodology for in-water scientific diving.

Examination of scientific, social, political, and economic factors of fisheries management, engaging students in key issues of coastal and marine sustainability.

Overview of issues related to water and soil sustainability including science, policy and business aspects. Recommended Preparation ENST-100.

Overview of issues related to water and soil sustainability including science, policy and business aspects. Recommended Preparation ENST-100.

Examines the politics of managing the global environment. The nature of ecosystems, commons problems, population and resource utilization problems along with biodiversity and global governance are emphasized.

Explores issues concerning behavior of humans towards the nonhuman world. Examines a wide spectrum of ethical issues.

Introduces students to central concepts and theories in environmental law and regulation; analyzes present environmental laws and regulations.

An introduction to the economic tools and issues that affect natural resource use and environmental management.

Intensive experience in governmental and political offices. Minimum time requirement; evaluation by office and intern report required.

Fundamentals of climate including atmosphere and ocean. Topics include radiative energy balance, ocean-atmosphere linkages and approaches to study climate while building quantitative and qualitative skills.

Should environmental issues be treated as threats to security? Survey of recent literature explores global environmental politics using a security framework. Recommended preparation: Environmental studies course work.

Earth's development as a habitable planet, from origin to human impacts on global biogeochemical cycles in the ocean, land, atmosphere. Discussion of environmental alternatives.

Exposes students to policy makers and major institutions that work closely with local decision makers towards developing environmental policy framework.

The political realities of selected environmental issues; resolving and implementing social priorities; interests, attitudes, strategies, and tactics of pressure groups; institutional biases and opportunities.

Examination of the tools used to reconstruct past climate change and a thorough discussion of past climate changes on earth with an emphasis on the recent past.

Sustainability professionals instruct on the specifics of working in sustainability, with topics such as community engagement for sustainability or creating/operating a sustainability non-profit.

Focuses on how businesses both contribute to and can help address environmental sustainability challenges and the role of the broader political-economy in shaping that interaction.

Field skills and management tools to investigate environmental problems in coastal zones; cultural and scientific topics; collection and analysis of environmental data.

Management and extraction of renewable and non-renewable natural resources; environmental externalities and regulation of air, water, and land pollution; market incentives versus direct regulation.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Provides opportunities for professional development in environmental policy and science and prepares students for career or graduate school in environmental-related fields. Students are placed in internships and guided before and during the internship period and gain practical experience and learn how government and nongovernmental organizations pursue and implement environmental policy and science work.

Students form multidisciplinary teams and are asked to study and resolve a major environmental problem facing a particular region or target population.

Selected topics dealing with environmental issues and problems.

Students will develop advanced skills to address complex environmental issues that society faces today. Different approaches for studying environmental processes and resources will be examined.

Analyzes various potential environmental risks and examines how science, government, and business measure and prepare for environmental risks.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.