In most cases, majors must complete 63 credits in the course categories listed below, which includes nine credits devoted to a group-based comprehensive exercise.  In exceptional circumstances, majors may do an individual comprehensive exercise for six credits, in which case they must complete 60 credits for the major.

I. Introductory Course (6 credits): Pick any one of the following:

• BIOL 126: Energy Flow in Biological Systems
• BIOL 190: Global Change Biology
• CHEM 128: Principles of Environmental Chemistry
• ENTS 112: Conservation Biology
• GEOL 120: Introduction to Environmental Geology

II. Quantitative Methods (6 credits): Pick either of the following:

• ENTS 120: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis
• MATH 215: Introduction to Statistics

III. Core Courses (18 credits): Take all of the following:

• BIOL 221: Ecosystems Ecology
• ENTS 271: Environmental Economics and Policy
• HIST 195: American Environmental History

IV. Focus Electives (24 credits):

All students must choose an area of specialization, or focus.  Completion of a focus requires taking two courses in the natural sciences and two non-science courses. Focus requirements are listed below: 

1. Food and Agriculture

(i) Environmental Science: Take any two of the following:

• BIOL 236: Plant Biology
• BIOL 238: Entomology
• ENTS 260: Comparative Agroecology OR ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology
• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change
• GEOL 258: Geology of Soils
• GEOL 340: Hydrology

 (ii) Society, Culture, and Policy: Take any two of the following:

• ECON 271: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 273: Water and Western Economic Development
• ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Environmental Economics
• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics
• POSC 262: Environmental Politics and Policy
• POSC 268: International Environmental Politics and Policy
• POSC 333: Sustainability Science
• SOAN 130: Population and Food in the Global System

2. Conservation and Development

(i) Environmental Science: Take any two of the following:

• BIOL 250: Marine Biology
• BIOL 350: Evolution
• BIOL 352: Population Ecology
• BIOL 361: Tropical Rainforest Ecology OR BIOL 362: Field Investigaton in Tropical Rainforest Ecology
• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change
• ENTS 254: Topics in Landscape Ecology

(ii) Society, Culture, and Policy: Take any two of the following:

• ECON 240: Microeconomics of Development
• ECON 243: Economic Demography
• ECON 271: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Environmental Economics
• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics
• ENTS 244: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Development OR ENTS 245: Field Investigation of Biodiversity, Conservation and Development
• HIST 306: Topics in Environmental History: America's National Parks
• POSC 211: Environment and the Evolution of Rules
• POSC 268: International Environmental Politics and Policy
• POSC 333: Sustainability Science
• SOAN 120: Human Populations: Structures and Changes
• SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture
• SOAN 302: Anthropology and Indigenous Rights

3. Landscapes and Perception

(i) Environmental Science: Take any two of the following:

• ENTS 254: Topics in Landscape Ecology
• ENTS 260: Comparative Agroecology OR ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology
• GEOL 210: Geomorphology
• GEOL 258: Geology of Soils

(ii) Society, Culture, and Policy: Take any two of the following:

• AMST 230: American Sublime
• ARTS 113: Field Drawing
• ARTS 212: Mixed Media Drawing OR ARTS 275: Physical and Cultural Environment of Australia and New Zealand
• ENGL 236: American Nature Writing
• ENTS 215: Environmental Ethics
• HIST 306: Topics in Environmental History: America's National Parks
• HIST 395: Themes in World Environmental History
• PHIL 234: Aesthetics
• POSC 257: American Environmental Thought
• RELG 243: Native American Religious Freedom
• RELG 356: Buddhism and Ecology
• SOAN 234: Ecology, Economy, and Culture
• SOAN 266: Urban Sociology
• SPAN 260: Forces of Nature

4. Water Resources

(i) Environmental Science: Take any two of the following:

• CHEM 328: Environmental Analysis
• ENTS 288: Abrupt Climate Change
• GEOL 210: Geomorphology
• GEOL 340: Hydrology
• GEOL 270: Geochemistry of Natural Waters

(ii) Society, Culture, and Policy: Take any two of the following:

• ECON 271: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 273: Water and Western Economic Development
• ECON 395: Advanced Topics in Environmental Economics
• HIST 306: Topics in Environmental History: The World's Water
• POSC 211: Environment and the Evolution of Rules
• POSC 262: Environmental Politics and Policy
• POSC 333: Sustainability Science

V. Senior Seminar/Comprehensive Exercise (9 credits):

Most students will take a 3-credit senior seminar, which is normally offered fall term, and then pursue a 6-credit group-based comprehensive exercise the following term.  In exceptional circumstances, students may pursue and individual comprehensive exercise.

• ENTS 395: Senior Seminar
• ENTS 400: Integrative Exercise