Director: Professor Mark T. Kanazawa
Environmental and Technology Studies Concentration (ENTSc)
The Environmental and Technology Studies Concentration brings faculty and students together from a broad range of academic departments and backgrounds to address scientific, economic, ethical, social, political, historical and aesthetic dimensions of the environment. This truly integrated, multidisciplinary commitment emphasizes not only critical thinking, but also hands-on laboratory and field research reaching across all divisions of the College. It values and facilitates opportunities for research projects, internships and other work experiences, and off-campus studies. The ENTS concentration is open to students in all majors. Concentrators are strongly advised to declare the concentration during spring term of their sophomore year, at which time they will be assigned an ENTS faculty advisor. The Environmental and Technology Studies Concentration is available for the class of 2010 only.
Requirements for the Concentration
Total required credits: forty-five to forty-eight, of which no more than eighteen credits can be 100-level courses. These credits are to be earned in the following categories.
1. Introductory course: (6 credits)
BIOL 190 Global Change Biology
CHEM 128 Principles of Environmental Chemistry
ENTS 112 Conservation Biology (Not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 120 Introduction to Environmental Geology (Not offered in 2009-2010)
2. Electives: (36 credits) 12 credits from each of three categories (Environmental Perspectives, Environmental Science, and Society and Policy) NOTE: the introductory course cannot be counted toward this requirement.
a. Environmental Perspectives:
ARTS 113 Field Drawing
ARTS 212 Australia/New Zealand Program: Mixed-Media Drawing (not offered in 2009-2010)
ARTS 275 Australia/New Zealand Program: Physical and Cultural Environment of Australia and New Zealand (not offered in 2009-2010)
ENGL 236 American Nature Writing
ENGL 330 Literature of the American West (not offered in 2009-2010)
HIST 195 American Environmental History
HIST 283 Farm and Forest: African Environmental History (not offered in 2009-2010)
HIST 306 Topics in Environmental History: America’s National Parks (not offered in 2009-2010)
HIST 395 Themes in World Environmental History
PHIL 234 Aesthetics
PHIL 242 Environmental Ethics (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 211 Environment and the Evolution of Rules: Designing Institutions to Solve Political Problems (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 257 American Environmental Thought (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policies
RELG 228 Christian Ethics
RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom
RELG 356 Buddhism and Ecology
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
SPAN 260 Forces of Nature
b. Environmental Science:
BIOL 190 Global Change Biology
BIOL 221 Ecosystem Ecology
BIOL 222 Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory
BIOL 236 Plant Biology
BIOL 238 Entomology (not offered in 2009-2010)
BIOL 239 Entomology Laboratory (not offered in 2009-2010)
BIOL 250 Australia Program: Marine Biology
BIOL 352 Population Ecology
BIOL 353 Population Ecology Laboratory
BIOL 361 Tropical Rainforest Ecology (not offered in 2009-2010)
CHEM 128 Principles of Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 328 Environmental Analysis (not offered in 2009-2010)
CHEM 329 Environmental Analysis Laboratory (not offered in 2009-2010)
ENTS 112 Conservation Biology (not offered in 2009-2010)
ENTS 120 Introduction to Geospatial Analysis
ENTS 254 Topics in Landscape Ecology (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 210 Geomorphology
GEOL 258 Geology of Soils (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 340 Hydrology (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 370 Geochemistry of Natural Waters
PHYS 152 Introduction to Physics: Environmental Physics
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
c. Society and Policy:
ECON 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
ECON 273 Water and Western Economic Development (not offered in 2009-2010)
ENTS 244 Biodiversity Conservation and Development (not offered in 2009-2010)
ENTS 245 Field Investigation of Biodiversity Conservation and Development (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 211 Environment and the Evolution of Rules: Designing Institutions to Solve Political Problems (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 245 Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policies
POSC 333 Sustainability Science* (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
SOAN 266 Urban Sociology (not offered in 2009-2010)
3. ENTS 398 Senior Colloquium: Capstone Project Proposal (2 credits)
4. ENTS 391 Senior Capstone Project (4 credits)
5. a.) At least six credits must be earned in a lab science course;
BIOL 221 Ecosystem Ecology
BIOL 222 Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory
BIOL 238 Entomology (not offered in 2009-2010)
BIOL 239 Entomology Laboratory (not offered in 2009-2010)
BIOL 352 Population Ecology
BIOL 353 Population Ecology Laboratory
BIOL 361 Tropical Rainforest Ecology (not offered in 2009-2010)
BIOL 362 Field Investigation in Tropical Rainforest Ecology (not offered in 2009-2010)
CHEM 128 Principles of Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 328 Environmental Analysis (not offered in 2009-2010)
CHEM 329 Environmental Analysis Laboratory (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 120 Introduction to Environmental Geology (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 210 Geomorphology
GEOL 258 Geology of Soils (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 340 Hydrology (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 370 Geochemistry of Natural Waters
PHYS 152 Introduction to Physics: Environmental Physics
b.) At least six credits must be earned in a course with a primarily international perspective:
ARTS 275 Australia/New Zealand Program: Physical and Cultural Environment of Australia and New Zealand (not offered in 2009-2010)
GEOL 370 Geochemistry of Natural Waters
HIST 283 Farm and Forest: African Environmental History (not offered in 2009-2010)
POSC 245 Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2009-2010)
RELG 356 Buddhism and Ecology
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (not offered in 2009-2010)
6. Note: Environmental and Technology Studies 100 courses do NOT count toward the concentration.