Learning Goals:
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Students will become sophisticated learners, handling ambiguity, shifting perspectives, strategic thinking, and critical thinking.
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Students will develop an intellectual identity as planners by considering environmental policy implications and acquiring specialized knowledge and interests within the broader disciplinary domain.
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Students will encounter difference (e.g., spatial, cultural, class, status, gender, sexual, ethnic, and racial), recognize these as agents in the environmental policy landscape, and cultivate ways of uncovering, handling and valuing these differences.
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Students will understand the importance of space, place, and environment (i.e., human-environment connection).
Assessment Criteria:
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Students will think and read critically and analytically.
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Students will use effective writing to support and critique multiple viewpoints.
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Students will interpret visual texts, media, quantitative data, maps, and landscapes.
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Students will be able to connect conceptual frameworks to real world environmental agents and actors.
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Students will connect to environmental issues and processes going on a various scales, seeing themselves in relation to and acting on local-to-global dynamics.
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Students will be able to connect conceptual frameworks to real world, hands-on problems.
Concentrations:
Development and Economics
Students will be able to analyze the range of economic factors and processes that impact communities and their development.
Ecology
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of ecosystems and their interface with human activities.
Geosciences
Students will be able to recognize how politics and planning best account for physical processes and systems that operate in various environment.
Environmental Health
Students will be able to connect the social and environmental factors that affect health to policy and practice.
Policy
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of various legal considerations and policies that impinge upon environmental decision making.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Foundation Courses (36 credits)
CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS
Select one concentration from the options below and complete at least 3 courses (12 credits) in that concentration, with 2 courses (8 credits) above the 100-level.
I. Development and Economics
ECO 101S |
Principles of Macroeconomics |
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ECO 102S |
Principles of Microeconomics |
ECO 228 |
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
ECO 360 |
International Economic Development |
GEO 310 |
International Development |
GEO 320 |
Economic Geography |
BUS 362 |
Social Entrepreneurship |
III. Environmental Health
HEA 245 |
Nutrition and Ecological Concerns |
HEA 210 |
Environmental Health |
HEA 350 |
Principles of Epidemiology |
GEO 325 |
Geography of Health and Disease |
IV. Geosciences
V. Policy
POS 101S |
Introduction to American Government |
POS 200S |
Public Policy |
POS 251 |
Civil Society and Social Accountability: Civic Engagement Practicum |
ECO 325 |
Public Finance |
MATHEMATICS REQUIREMENT (4 credits)
Total Credits for the Major: 52
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
One year of one foreign language at the college level or two years of one foreign language at the high school level.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
For specific information about general education requirements and expectations, see the General Education Requirements in the Academic Programs section of this catalog.
MINIMUM TOTAL OF CREDITS FOR THE DEGREE: 128