Students will be equipped with the scholarly background and intellectual skills to understand a wide range of pressing environmental issues, and they will come to appreciate the physical, economic, political, demographic, and ethical factors that define those issues. Among the many environmental problems central to our program are groundwater contamination, suburban sprawl, river basin management, environmental justice, and the greening of abandoned urban spaces. Our graduates find employment with government environmental agencies, citizens' organizations, consulting firms, and corporate environmental affairs departments.

The College of Liberal Arts offers a B.A. and a minor in Environmental Studies, while the College of Science and Technology offers a B.S. in Environmental Science and a minor in Environmental Studies.

Requirements for the B.A.

Prerequisite and Fundamental courses:
Department	Course #	Course Name	Hours	RCI
EES	2001	Physical Geology	4
Economics	1101	Macroeconomic Principles	3	IN
Economics	1102	Microeconomic Principles	3	IN
Math/STAT		to be determined	3
Subtotal			13

Major courses:
Department	Course #	Course Name	Hours	RCI
EVRN ST/GUS	1051 or 1951	Environment & Society	3	IN
EVRN ST/GUS	1052	Introduction to the Physical Environment	4	SB
Biology	1011	General Biology I (with lab)	4	SA
Biology	1012	General Biology II (with lab)	4	SB
GUS	3062	Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems	3
Math or Statistics or Math	1013 or 2101 or 2031	Elements of Statistics (prereq. Math 1011) or Statistical Methods & Concepts (prereq. Math 1031 or 1041 or STAT 1001) or Probability & Statistics (prereq. Math 1031 or two semesters of calculus)	3 3 3	QB QB
Economics	3596	Energy, Ecology & Economy (prereq. ECON 1102)	3	WI
EVRN ST	4198	Senior Research Seminar	3	WI
Subtotal			27

Electives		Choose 4 courses from the list of approved electives. One must be a policy course and one must be from the natural sciences.	12
Subtotal			12

Total			52

All Temple students must take a minimum of two writing-intensive courses. The specific writing-intensive courses required for this major are listed above and are identified by "WI" in the RCI column.

Requirements for the Minor

Department	Course #	Course Name	Hours	RCI
EVRN ST/GUS	1051 or 1951	Environment & Society	3

One of the following (plus any required prerequisites):			3-4
Biology EES EVRN ST/GUS Economics	2227 3021 3062 3596	Principles of Ecology or Introduction to Hydrology or Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems or Energy, Ecology & Economy

Policy Elective		Select one policy course from the list of approved electives.	3
Environmental Studies Electives		Select three topics courses from the list of approved electives.	9

Total			18-19

Environmental Studies Electives List

Note: Upper-level Science and Liberal Arts courses from this list can be used to satisfy the CLA/CST 45 credit upper-level distribution requirement. Please consult with an advisor.

*NS - Indicates that the course counts as a Natural Science course in fulfillment of B.A. requirements.

*SSH - Indicates that the course counts as a Social Science/Humanities course in fulfillment of requirements for the B.S.

Department	Course #	Course Name	Hours	*NS/SSH

Policy
C+R PLN	2014	Planning Policy and Law	3	SSH
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	3175	Heritage Management in Archaeology	3	SSH
Economics	3512	Public Finance	3	SSH
Economics	3513	Economics of State & Local Government	3	SSH
ENVT	4761	Environmental Regulations	3	SSH
EVRN ST	3025	Environmental Law and Regulation	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	3051	Environmental Policy Issues	3	SSH
EVRN ST/POL SCI	3152	U.S. Environmental Policy	3	SSH
EVRN ST/POL SCI	3265	International Environmental Policy	3	SSH

Topics
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	3170	Methods in Archaeology	3	NS
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	3189	Field Session in Archaeology	3	NS
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	4117	Seminar in Environmental Archaeology	3	SSH
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	4796	Biocultural Adaptations in Human Populations	3	SSH
EVRN ST/ANTHRO	4896	Environmental Physiology	3	NS
Biology	2227	Principles of Ecology	4	NS
Biology	2238	Marine Environments	3	NS
Biology	3196	Experimental Marine Biology	4	NS
Biology	3245	Marine Ecology	4	NS
Biology	3316	Tropical Marine Biology	4	NS
Biology	3336	Freshwater Ecology	4	NS
Botany	1112	Plant Ecology	3	NS
C+R PLN	1027	History and Practice of Community and Regional Planning	3	SSH
C+R PLN	2114	Urban Form and Design	3	SSH
C+R PLN	2213	Environmental Planning	3	SSH
C+R PLN	2524	Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems	3
C+R PLN	3256	Sustainable Community Design and Development	3	SSH
EVRN ST	3000	Special Topics in Environmental Studies	3
EVRN ST	4082	Independent Study - Environmental Studies	1-3
EVRN ST	4085	Internship - Environmental Studies	3
EVRN ST/GUS	2051	The Urban Environment	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	3052	Environmental Problems in Asia	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	3054	Energy, Resources, and Conservation	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	3062	Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems	3
EVRN ST/GUS	3097	Environment and Development	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	4015	The Geographic Basis of Land Use Planning	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	4051	Hazards Geography	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	4056	Political Ecology	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	4071	Medical Geography	3	SSH
EVRN ST/GUS	4096	Problems of Environmental Quality	3	SSH
EES	2015	Climate Change: Oceans to Atmosphere	4	NS
EES	2021	Facies Models	4	NS
EES	2061	Introduction to Geochemistry	4	NS
EES	3011	Remote Sensing & GIS	4	NS
EES	3021	Introduction to Hydrology	4	NS
EES	4197/4997	Environmental Seminar	3	SSH
EVRN ST/History	3214	North American Environmental History	3	SSH
EVRN ST/History	4297	Social History of American Medicine	3	SSH
Horticulture	2114	Soils	3	NS
Horticulture	2334/2353	Food Crops I/II	3
Horticulture	3514	Landscape Restoration	3
Journalism	3253	Environmental Reporting	3
LAN ARC	2144	Landscape Architecture Design Studio II	6
LAN ARC	2758	Summer Field Ecology	3	NS
EVRN ST/PHILOS	2157	Environmental Ethics	3	SSH
EVRN ST/PHILOS	2596	Philosophical Perspectives on the Environment	3	SSH
EVRN ST/REL	3001	Earth Ethics	3	SSH
Public Health	2102	Environmental Health	3	SSH
EVRN ST/SOC	3511	Sociology of the Environment	3	SSH

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