Curriculum

A set of social science core courses focuses on environmental problems from political, legal, economic and international perspectives.  Specially designed one-semester surveys of biology, earth science and chemistry provide the natural science competency for subsequent policy or science advanced course work in environmental studies.

The required core courses for the B.S. and B.A. degrees (48 units) are:

BISC 103Lx: General Biology for the Environment and Life (4)

CHEM 103Lx: General Chemistry for the Environment and Life (4)

ENST 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies (4)

ENST 320ab: Water and Soil Sustainability; Energy and Air Sustainability (4-4)

ENST 387: Economics for Natural Resources and the Environment (4)

ENST 495: Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (4) 

GEOL 160L: Introduction to Geosystems (4)

IR 323: Politics of Global Environment (4)

MATH 125: Calculus I (4)

POSC 270: Introduction to Environmental Law and Politics (4)

PSYC 274: Statistics I (4)

All undergraduate Environmental Studies majors should complete at least 24 units of the core curriculum before attaining junior status.  This should include satisfactory completion of at least two of the natural science core courses, ENST 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies, and PSYC 274: Statistics I.

For additional courses required for the B.A. and B.S. in Environmental Studies, click here.