Environment, Sustainability and Policy Bachelor's Program

Discover processes that shape Earth and affect humans. This course also covers Earth structure, plate tectonics, geologic time and surficial processes.

This course is a survey of modern topics in ecology and evolutionary biology, including: evolution, phylogenetics, animal behavior, population ecology, community ecology and ecosystems.

You will focus on physical processes and patterns of environmental change, changes occurring as a result of human activities and the social consequences of environmental change.

Foundations of modern Western economic thought are explored through this course. You will learn how this economic model is applied to current issues facing society.

Explore the relationship between society and the environment. Topics covered include natural resource use, climate change politics, food and agriculture, energy, water and sustainability.

This course is an examination of American naturalists and nature religionists for claims about nature’s value, sacrality and fragility. It also deals with current issues and concerns about climate change and environmental activism.

This course explores numerical methods and data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB. Topics will include basic statistics for univariate and bivariate datasets.

You will be introduced to the many uses of image and topographic data within a geographic information system (GIS) to extract information relevant to the study of the Earth.

Develop skills necessary to analyze data and evaluate research including research design, sampling design, descriptive and inferential statistics, data sources for social science, constructing data sets, reading and constructing tables and charts.

Examine sustainability science, communications and public policy through the lens of climate. What is known about climate change and impacts? What motivates public understanding, and what actions make progress toward sustainability?

This is an introduction to sustainability policy. You will compare conventional approaches and analytical tools for environmental policy and draw from case studies and theoretical materials.

Advanced technology is a focal point of governmental and political conflict in the United States and other nations. This course explores the interplay of technology and politics as a struggle for control as it relates to the environment.

The topic of oil is used to explore the concerns of human geography with society, space and the natural environment. By learning about oil, you will cover themes and concepts important to environmental, political, cultural, economic and urban geography.

This course looks at the biological and cultural factors in disease causation, diagnosis and treatment in Western and non-Western societies.

You will be introduced to concepts applied to natural and built environments. The course focuses on several key issues and looks at basic principles for sustainable civil and environmental engineering design and decision making.