CAS Core Requirements and Major Requirements

Program Required Courses including Green Learning Community: First Year
Course Credits
ENV 100 and 101 or ENV 104 - Introduction to Environmental Issues 3
BIO 105 and105L - Biology I: Ecology/Evolution/Lab 4
LIT 121 and 122 or LIT 124 - Literature, Nature & the Environment 3
BUEC 104 and 105 or BUEC 106 - Economics in Context 3
MAT 151 - Statistics for Environmental Sciences 3
Program Required Courses to fulfill CAS Core Requirements for Social/Global Awareness: Second Year
Course Credits
ENV 200 - Environment and Society 3
ENV 208 - Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, Solutions 3
Total 22
Total CAS Core Requirement Credits 42-46

Additional Required Courses for the Major

Course Credits
BUAC 201 - Financial Accounting 3
BUEC 204 - Microeconomics 3
BUEC 390 - Environmental Economics 3
BUMG 200 - Management 3
BUMK 200 - Marketing 3
ENV 240 - Environmental Sustainability Lab 2
ENV 250 - Environmental Policy in Comparative Perspective 3
ENV 344 - Environmental Ethics or BUMG 311 - Business and Society Relations 3
Environmental Studies Electives (2 courses, see table below) 6
Business Electives (2 courses, see table below) 6
ENV 295 - Internship or BUMG 295 - Internship 3
ENV 495 - Advanced Internship or BUMG 495A - Advanced Internship 3–12
ENV 499 - Senior Capstone 3
Total 41-50

Electives

Environmental Elective Suggestions Credits
ENV 204 - Urban Forestry 3
ENV 309 - Sustainability and Ecological Restoration 3
ENV 313 - Wetland Restoration: Science and Policy 3
ENV 316/316L - Land Conservation Practicum/with lab 4
ENV 321 - Environmental Communication: Expert Practices for Ecosystem Management 3
ENV 328 - Environmental Pollution: Ecosystems, Wildlife and Human Health 3
ENV 340 - Environmental Movements and Social Change 3
ENV 341 - Indigenous Ecology, Conservation Biology, and the Politics of Knowledge 3
ENV 348 - Environment, Health & Community Development in East Africa 4
ENV 357 - Sustaining Water: Social and Global Perspectives 3
MAF 200 - Introduction to Marine Pollution 3
MAF 210 - Introduction to US Ocean Governance 3
MAR 316 - Science in Society 3
Business Elective Suggestions Credits
BUEC 395 - Ecological Economics 3
BUMG 303 - Management of Nonprofits 3
BUMG 307 - Operations Management 3
BUMG 312 - Entrepreneurship/Sm Bus Management 3
BUMG 315 - Triple Bottom Line Reporting 3
BUMG 325 - Legal Environment of Business 3
BUMG 410 - Creating Social Enterprises through Design Thinking & Innovation 4
ORM 250 - Outdoor Entrepreneurship (Makerspace) 3
Open Elective Courses (as needed to reach 120 credits)
Minimum Total Required Credits 120

Additional Information

  1. Students may choose to tailor the last two years of course selections to their specific interests. For example, in close consultation with their academic advisor, they may select upper-level business and environmental studies electives that would result in an informal concentration in one or more areas including Non-Profit Sector, Corporate/Public Sector Sustainability, Small Business/Entrepreneurship.
  2. Students are strongly encouraged to participate in study abroad. Academic advisors will help tailor a student’s program to create opportunities for study abroad.

Students in this major can participate in the pre-health graduate school preparation tracks.