Environmental Studies BA
(shared with COAS and SPS)
- Evaluate change—through time from past to future, within earth and human systems, and among diverse and varied cultures.
- See perspectives— identify, analyze, and compare views of the environment.
- Conduct research—using thoughtful questions and evidence-based arguments to characterize the significance and severity of specific environmental problems.
- Communicate clearly—among stakeholders, across societies, within and beyond any one community.
- Create networks—to explore skills necessary to address social needs and gain employment.
- Lead and follow—as informed citizens, team-players, and scholars.
Environmental Science BS
(shared with COAS and SPS)
- Use systems thinking approaches to evaluate environmental systems, describe biophysical and socio-cultural systems, and articulate their connections.
- Explain how historical and contemporary factors have shaped the environment and our understanding of and experiences with it.
- Evaluate conceptual frameworks from multiple perspectives to analyze and understand environmental systems and identify outcomes of proposed actions.
- Formulate research questions and identify appropriate methodologies to answer them.
- Evaluate and apply appropriate quantitative tools and methods to collect and analyze environmental data and demonstrate accepted data management practices.
- Develop and deploy a variety of communication and engagement practices that are appropriate to the audience, relationship, and intention.
- Describe characteristics of effective teams and assess the value of your coursework in an interdisciplinary context.
Environmental Management
(shared with COAS and SPS)
- Recognize and identify the complexities of environmental management, including diverse approaches from various disciplines.
- Develop skills and strategies for meaningful and productive relationships with stakeholders, rightsholders, and constituencies in varied social-ecological settings.
- Integrate applied and theoretical contexts of environmental issues and problems
- Collect and analyze data to design research draw conclusions and generate solutions to challenges in environmental management.
- Synthesize and translate research for the public in the context of environmental management.