Environmental Studies

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Approved Course List for Majors

Humanities/Social Science list

  • Anthropology 201: Global Problems: Anthropology and Contemporary Issues
  • Anthropology 298: Ecological Anthropology
  • Anthropology 307: Archaeology of Southeastern United States
  • Anthropology 312: Place, Ritual, and Belief
  • Anthropology 313: Method and Theory in Archaeology
  • Anthropology 316: Archaeology of the Cumberland Plateau
  • Anthropolgy 318: North American Archaeology
  • Anthropology 350: Environmental Archaeology
  • Anthropology 357: Field School in Archaeology
  • Art 282: Sustainable Structures
  • Economics 335: Environmental Economics
  • Economics 381: Political Economy of Sustainable Development
  • Education/Environmental Studies 217: Introduction to Environmental Education
  • English 220: Poetry, Nature, and Contemplation
  • English 396: American Environmental Literature
  • Environmental Studies 100: Walking the Land
  • Environmental Studies 140: Readings in Island Ecology
  • Environmental Studies 200: Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • Environmental Studies 201: Organic Agriculture
  • Environmental Studies 217: Fundamentals of GIS
  • Environmental Studies 220: Reading the Landscape
  • Environmental Studies 283: Environmental History
  • Environmental Studies 285: The Development of Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic”
  • Environmental Studies 300: Seminar in Ecology and Ethics
  • Environmental Studies 301: Introduction to Spatial Information Systems and Field Mapping
  • Environmental Studies 317: Advanced Applications of GIS
  • Environmental Studies 332: Archaeological Resource Management and Policy
  • Environmental Studies 334: Environmental Policy and Law
  • Environmental Studies 336: Environmental Land-Use Policy
  • Environmental Studies 340: Tools for Environmental Policy Analysis
  • Environmental Studies 400: Seminar in Environmental Studies
  • Environmental Studies 444: Independent Study
  • Forestry 201: Natural Resource Issues/Policy
  • Forestry 270: Water Resource Policy and Law
  • History 100: Environmental History
  • History 386: African Environmental History
  • Music 269: Music of the Birds and Bees: Music and Nature
  • Philosophy 230: Environmental Ethics
  • Political Science 381: Political Economy of Sustainable Development
  • Political Science 382: International Environmental Policy
  • Psychology/Environmental Studies 215: Behavior Modification for Sustainability
  • Religion 307:  Religious Environmentalism
  • Religion 341: Religion and Ecology
  • Religion 353: Buddhism and the Environment
  • Religion 393: Rural Religion
  • Russian 363: Environmentalism and Ecocide in Russian Literature and Culture

Sciences list

  • Biology 107: People and the Environment
  • Biology 109: Food and Hunger: Contemplation and Action
  • Biology 114: Botany
  • Biology 130: Field Investigations in Biology
  • Biology 131: Principles of Biology I
  • Biology 200: Entomology
  • Biology 201: Ornithology
  • Biology 202: Invertebrate Zoology
  • Biology 204: Parasitology
  • Biology 206: Plant Ecology
  • Biology 207: Biology of Lower Plants
  • Biology 209: Conservation Biology
  • Biology 210: Ecology
  • Biology 211: Biodiversity: Pattern and Process
  • Biology 215: Fungi (half course)
  • Biology 216: Algae and Bryophytes (half course)
  • Biology 221: Environmental Physiology of Plants
  • Biology 232: Human Health and the Environment
  • Biology 235: Freshwater Conservation
  • Biology 241: Rainforests and Coral Reefs (half course)
  • Biology 250: Molecular Evolution
  • Biology 251: Field Study in Belize (half course)
  • Biology 260: Cave Biology
  • Biology 305: Plant Physiology
  • Biology 310: Plant Evolution & Systematics
  • Biology 313: Ecosystems and Global Change
  • Biology 315: Advanced Ecology and Biodiversity
  • Biology 340: Microbiology
  • Chemistry 103: Earth, Air, Water and Fire
  • Chemistry 104: Environmental Chemistry
  • Computer Science 120: Introduction to Environmental Computing
  • Environmental Studies 201: Organic Agriculture
  • Environmental Studies 302: Ecology, Evolution, and Agriculture
  • Forestry 121: Introduction to Forestry
  • Forestry 204: Forest Wildlife Management
  • Forestry 211: Dendrology
  • Forestry 212: Forestry in the Developing World
  • Forestry 230: Urban Forest Management
  • Forestry 303/Geology 303: Soils
  • Forestry 305: Forest Ecology
  • Forestry 312: Silviculture
  • Forestry 314/Geology 314: Hydrology
  • Forestry 316: Tropical & Boreal Forest Ecosystems
  • Forestry 319: Natural Resource Management
  • Geology 121: Physical Geology
  • Geology 215: Geological Resources
  • Geology 222: Historical Geology
  • Geology 230: Paleoecology
  • Geology 235: Earth Systems and Climate Change
  • Geology 323: Geology of the Western U.S.
  • Physics 105: Environmental Physics
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