The Environment & Sustainability major is a collaboration between the and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Environment & Sustainability Core Curriculum
Core courses provide students in the Environment & Sustainability (E&S) major with a broad awareness of the biological, physical-chemical, ecological, human and social dimensions of environment and sustainability issues. Additional courses in one of six concentrations advance your ability to address real-world environmental challenges with a greater depth of understanding.
Semester Key: F=Fall, S=Spring, Su=Summer
Declare the major here.
Sign up for an advising appointment here.
Tracking Your Degree Requirements
E&S has prepared a degree requirements tracking tool for you to use and share with your faculty advisor: the Degree Progress Checklist. The E&S Core and Concentration requirements are laid out visually, making it easier for you to track the courses you've taken and when. See links below for more information.
Required courses
Choose 1 course.
- NTRES/ENVS 1101 - Understanding Environment and Sustainability (F, 3 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 1201 - Global Water Sustainability (S, 3 cr)
- NTRES 2201/BSOC 2201 - Society and Natural Resources (S, 3 cr)
Choose 1 course.
- BIOEE 1610 - Ecology and the Environment (F, S, Su, 3-4 cr) or
- BIOSM 1610 - Ecology and the Marine Environment (Su, 3 cr)
or
- BIOEE 1780 - Evolution and Diversity (F, S, 4-5 cr) or
- BIOEE 1781 - Introduction to Evolution and Diversity (F, S, Su, 4 cr) or
- BIOSM 1780 - Evolution and Marine Diversity (Su, 4 cr)
AP Biology credits are accepted toward university degree progress but do not exempt students from the E&S specified courses.
Note:
- BIOSM options are 2.5 week intensive courses at Shoals Marine Lab that satisfy this requirement. Scholarships are available.
- EBAE and LAWR concentrations require more than one biology course.
Choose 1 course.
- CHEM 1560 - Introduction to General Chemistry (F, Su, 4 cr)
- CHEM 2070 - General Chemistry I (F, Su, 4 cr)
- EAS 1600 - Environmental Physics (F, S, 3 cr)
- AP/IB credit accepted to meet requirement.
Note:
Choose 1 course.
- AEM 2100 - Introductory Statistics (F, 4 cr)
- BIOEE 1760 - Biostatistics with R Programming Language (Su, 3 cr)
- BTRY 3010/STSCI 2200 - Biological Statistics I (F, 4 cr)
- MATH 1710 - Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World (F, S, 4 cr)
- PSYCH 2500 - Statistics and Research Design (F, Su, 4 cr)
- PUBPOL 2100 - Introduction to Statistics (S, 4 cr)
- SOC 3010 - Statistics for Sociological Research (F, 4 cr)
- STSCI/ILRST 2100 - Introductory Statistics (F, W, S, Su, 4 cr)
- STSCI 2150 - Introductory Statistics for Biology (F, S, 4 cr)
AP Statistics credit accepted to fulfill requirement.
Note:
Choose 1 course.
- ANTHR 2201 - Early Agriculture (S, 3 cr) (Next offered S27)
- ANTHR 2420 - Nature/Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human-Environment Relations (F, 3 cr)
- [ANTHR/SHUM 2482 - Anthropology of Climate Change] (S, 3 cr) (Not offered S24)
- [ASIAN 2273 - Religion and Ecological Sustainability] (F, 3 cr) (Not offered F24)
- BSOC 2061 - Ethics and the Environment (S, 4 cr)
- [COML 2036 - Literature and the Elements of Nature] (S, 3 cr) (Next offered F25)
- ENGL 4675 - The Environmental Imagination in American Literature (S, 4 cr)
- ENGL 3795 - Communicating Climate Change (F, 4 cr)
- HIST 2581 - Environmental History (S, 4 cr)
- NTRES/AIIS 3330 - Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge (F, 4 cr)
- [PHIL 1440 - Ethics of Eating] (F, 4 cr) (Not offered F24)
Choose 1 course.
- AEM/ENVS 1500 - An Introduction to the Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources (S, 3 cr)
- AEM/ENVS 2500 - Environmental and Resource Economics (F, 3 cr) (prerequisite: ECON 1110)
Note:
- Sustainable Business and Environmental Economics Concentration (SBEE) requires AEM/ENVS 2500.
- ECON 1110 alone does NOT fulfill the core environmental resource economics requirement.
Choose 1 course.
- BIOEE 3611 - Field Ecology (F, 3 cr)
- [BIOEE 2525+2526+2527 - Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Neotropics] (multi-semester course starting in Fall, by application, 4 cr total) (Not offered F24)
- BIOEE 4570 - Limnology: Ecology of Lakes (F, 3 cr LEC) AND BIOEE 4571 (F, 2 cr LAB) (Alternate years.)
- ENTOM 2120 - Insect Biology (F, 4 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 2100 - Introductory Field Biology (F, 4 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 2400 - Field Methods in Avian Ecology (F, 3 cr, By application/permission of instructor)
- NTRES/ENVS 3020 - Earth Projects (F, 7-week course, 3 cr)
- NTRES 3150+3151+3152 - Introduction to Conservation Bioacoustics (multi-semester course starting in Fall, by application, 5 cr total)
- [NTRES/BIOEE 4560 - Stream Ecology] (F, 4 cr, alternate years) (Next offered F26)
BIOSM - Shoals Marine Laboratory (Summer, off-campus, additional fee)
- [BIOSM 2500: Coastal Habitat Field Research Methods] (Su, 3 cr) (Not offered Su24)
- BIOSM 3330: Marine Parasitology and Disease (Su, 3 cr)
- [BIOSM 3340: Marine Invasive Species] (Su, 3 cr) (Not offered Su24)
- BIOSM 3450: Marine Mammal Biology (Su, 3 cr)
- [BIOSM 3650: Underwater Research] (Su, 3 cr) (Not offered Su24)
Choose 1 course.
- ENVS 2000 - Environment and Sustainability Colloquium (F, 1 cr)
OR
ENVS 2010 - Discussions of Environment and Sustainability (F, 3 cr) - BEE 2000/ENVS 2001 - Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge (S, 1.5 cr)
Choose 1 course.
- COML/ENVS 4103 - Nabokov, Naturally (S, 3 cr)
- HIST/ENVS 4262 - Environmental Justice: Past, Present and Future (F, 4 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 4500 - Climate Solutions Capstone (F, 3 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 4600 - Planning for Environmental Conservation and Sustainability (F, 3 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 4700 - Art and Science of the Mohawk River Watershed (S, 3 cr)
- NTRES/ENVS 4800 - Road Ecology: Wildlife Corridor and Crossing Design for the 21st Century (S, 3 cr)
BIOSM - Shoals Marine Laboratory (Summer, off-campus, additional fee)
- BIOSM 3750 - Integrated Ecosystem Research and Management (Su, 3 cr)
Concentrations
Students choose and declare one concentration by the end of their sophomore year.