Union College  
line decor
  HOME  ::  
line decor
   
 

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAJOR

Environmental PROBLEMS & RESPONSE TRACK

 

A.  Required Introductory Course (1)

  1. ENS 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies (1)

B.  Required Policy Courses (4)

  • ECO 228 Environmental Economics (1), and
  • three courses from HST 335 American Environmental History; PHL 273 Environmental Ethics or PHL 274 Environmental History and Literature; PSC 272 The Environment Energy and U.S. Politics; SOC 358T Marine Policy and Maritime Environment or SOC 359 Environmental Policy and Resource Management (3)

C.  Quantitative Methods and Spatial Analysis (1)

  • one course from SOC 300 Quantitative Methods of Social Research; ECO 243 Introduction to Econometrics, or
  • one of GEO 203 Remote Sensing or GEO 204 Geographic Information Systems (1)

D.  Required Science Courses (3)

    • BIO 102 Heredity, Evolution and Ecology (1), and
    • BIO 320 Ecology or BIO 350T Terrestrial Ecology (1), or BIO 324 Plant Ecology, and
    • GEO 100 Physical Geology or 102 Environmental Geology (1) 

 E. Environmental PROBLEMS and RESPONSE Concentration (4 upper level courses; no double counting from above)

ANT 241 Environmental Anthropology
ENS 208 Waste Management and Recycling
EGL 251 Nature and Environmental Writing
HST 335 American  Environmental History
PHL 273 Environmental Ethics
PHL 274 Environmental History and Literature
PSC 274 Politics of Global Warming
SOC 202 Social Problems and Social Policy
SOC 270 Social Movements, The Environment, and Society
SOC 359 Environmental Policy and Resource Management
SOC 370 Public Health Care Policy and Society
TAB 355T Images of the Sea Internships*

* Internships:  Up to two internships may be counted toward any of the tracks above, provided the subject of the internship is selected with that track in mind and approved in writing by both the relevant internship director and the Director of the Environmental Science and Policy program. ANT 223T/ ECO 223 Culture and Entrepreneurship (Fiji term abroad); ANT 490T Independent Study and Internship (Tasmania term abroad); ECO 390 Economics Internship; PSC 277 Local Government Internship; PSC 279T Washington, DC Internship Program; SOC 385: Sociology Internship in Human Services.

F.  Environmental Policy Seminar (1)

SOC 450

G.  Senior Seminar (1)

ENS 460

H. Thesis (2 )

ENS 498 and 499

Total courses= 17


 

 

 
 

This document can be located from: http://minerva.union.edu/env/ES_home.html


© Geology Department, Union College, Schenectady N.Y. 12308-3107.All rights reserved. No part of the document can be copied and/or redistributed, electronically or otherwise, without written permission from J.I.Garver, Geology Department, Union College, Schenectady NY, 12308-2311, USA.