ADVISEMENT GUIDE FOR REVISED ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MAJOR

as approved by the ES Convening Group on October 22, 1997

and implemented October 6, 1998

by Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D., Convener

Dear ES Students,

As of October 6, 1998, the requirements for the Environmental Studies major have been revised. Students who declared their majors prior to that date will have the option of using the old or the new requirements. Students declaring majors after this date should follow these revisions. I think you will like what we have done to make our program even more responsive to your needs. The revisions emerged from years of discussion and curricular workshops focused on how to update our program heading into a new millennium. They were implemented after approval by the ES faculty, TAS, SSHS, the All-College Curriculum Committee, and after a five-year program review was completed by the college and evaluated by outside reviewers.

Our program mission now highlights the goal of preparing students to play an active role in creating a sustainable society. In order to fit this mission, we have streamlined the 300 level of the major around several core “elements of a sustainable society”: Earth and Resources, Place and Communities, Sustainable Economics and Ethics, Ecological Practice, and a 300-level field placement. Students must take one course to fit each of these categories. Students will elect two additional courses from a list of electives after discussion with their advisor. Core courses will be offered at least once a year; electives will be offered approximately once every other year.

We have made other changes as well. The Environmental Studies course is now required, reflecting our sense that the course helps to provide a necessary overview of the major. In line with our maturing ideas about core knowledge in the environmental fields, our old 200 level core course “Resources and Society” has been replaced by our new “Environmental History” offering. We also call your attention to our regular offering of an elective in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in our brand new GIS laboratory, soon to be followed by advanced GIS courses. At some point soon, we hope to introduce a new recommended “Environmental Tools Laboratory” that is intended to accompany the Environmental Studies course at the 100 level, providing an introduction to GIS and other basic methods in the field. We also hope to infuse GIS throughout our curriculum. The revised major is a little bit bigger, at a minimum of 61 credits than the old one at a minimum 55 credits. Given the size of the major, we urge you to pay careful attention to the many ways that the ES major courses help to fulfill other all-college General Education and school core requirements in TAS and SSHS. Using these overlapping requirements, the effective credit size of the major can be dropped approximately in half.

You may also want to consider combining your ES major with another major or a minor, or with an elementary or secondary Social Science Education certification (ask about the details). In order to plan for the most efficient course selection for meeting all-college and school requirements while completing the ES major and to discuss a “pathway” through the major that will best meet your own plans for a career and further education, please make sure that you sit down with one of the ES faculty to go over your transcript and scheduling plans. If you do not already have an advisement relationship with one of our faculty, please see the ES convener, Mike Edelstein in Room G-422 or approach any of our other faculty.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE MAJOR: CREDITS

100 Level: Foundation 16

M/SENV 103 Environmental Studies (4cr) [gen ed science or social science] SBIO 101 Dev. of Modern Science: Biology or SBIO 110 Fundamentals of Biology I (4 cr.) [gen ed science]

SCHM 101 Dev. of Modern Science: Chemistry or SCHM 110 Fundamentals of Chemistry (4 cr.) [gen ed science]

SGEL 101 Dev. of Modern Science: Geology or SGEO 101 Dev. of Modern Science: Geography or SENS 105 Fundamentals of Earth Science (4 cr.) [gen ed science]

After it is introduced, it is recommended that students take the planned SENV 120 Environmental Tools Laboratory (1 cr.) as a co-requisite of M/SENV 103, SGEL 101 or SGEO 101.

200 Level: Core 16

APOL 210/SENV 207 Public Policy or SENV 342 Law and Politics of the International Environment (3 cr.) [Public Policy is Gen Ed Social/Human Development]

M/SENV 209 Social Ecology (4 cr.) [gen ed Social/Human Dev., SCP, Cons. & Soc.]

SBIO 221 General Ecology (3 cr.) [gen ed. Nature, Systems, Math]

SENV 223 Energy and Society (3 cr.)[gen ed. Nature, Systems, Math, SCP]

M/SENV 215 Environmental History (3 cr.)[gen. Ed. Global/Multicultural, SCP, SSHS History Core Requirement]*

300 Level: Elements of a Sustainable Society 21-7

Earth and Resources: Either SGEL 333 Environmental Geology, SGEO 3xx* Natural Resource Conservation, or SENS 325 Conservation Biology (3 cr.).

Place and Communities: Either SENV 312 Ecological Anthropology, SENV 335 Ecology, Society and the Sacred, AAMR 305-01 Inside America, or MPSY 343 Environmental Psychology (3 cr.). [Ecology, Society and Sacred fulfills the Gen Ed Values, Ethics...requirement].

Sustainable Economics and Ethics: Either SENV 305 Ecology, Economics and Ethics or MSOC 306 Environmental Sociology (3 cr.), SENV 336/APHL 336 Environmental Ethics. [Environmental Ethics fulfills the Gen Ed Values, Ethics...requirement]

Ecological Practice: SENV 338 Sustainable Communities, SENS 327 Ecological Agriculture or SENV 313 Appropriate Technology (4 cr.).

Field Placement: Either SENV 331 Environmental Internship (4 cr.), equivalent Cooperative Education Experience (3-6 cr.), or an approved study abroad program, such as “The American West.” [Fulfills SSHS field requirement]

Plus two electives chosen from a rotating list fitting the pathway through the major selected by the student with their Environmental Studies advisor (minimum of 6 cr.).

400 Level: Capstone 8

SENV 410 Environmental Seminar (4 cr.)

SENV 414 Environmental Assessment (4 cr.)

Minimum Credits: 61-65

*Course under review by Curriculum Committee and/or General Education Committee.

The Environmental Minor is unchanged from the previous catalog except for Environmental History replacing Resources and Society

ADVISOR’S LIST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES:

Angela Cristini, Ph.D. marine ecologist. Students interested in marine and water environments and pollution, environmental education, educational technology.

Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D. environmental psychologist and Convener. New students and students interested in environmental psychology, community sustainability, social and environmental impact assessment, environmental justice, waste and pollution issues, ecological literacy, environmental education, and environmental action.

Howard Horowitz, Ph.D., geographer. Students interested in forest and water resources, hazardous wastes, other resource conservation issues, and geography.

Isabella Drew, Ph.D., geologist. Students interested in geology, oceanography, and mapping.

William Makofske, Ph.D., environmental physicist. Students interested in alternative energy, computer modeling, radiation and health physics, ecological agriculture, global climate change, and appropriate technology.

Trent Schroyer, Ph.D., sociology and philosophy. Students interested in social ecology, environmental sociology, environmental ethics and philosophy, ecological economics, global economic impacts, and sustainable societies.

Wayne Hayes, Ph.D., planning. Students interested in environmental policy and planning, regional studies, conflict resolution, computer applications.

Catherine Cutbill, Ph.D., anthropology. Students interested in cross-cultural environmental issues, African studies and ecological anthropology.

Patricia Hunt-Perry, Ph.D., political science. Students interested in sacred and spiritual aspects of the environment, peace issues, conflict resolution.

Henry Frundt, Ph.D., sociology. Students interested in population, food and hunger issues, and environmental justice issues.

Ed Van Blargan, Ph.D. environmental engineering. Students interested in GIS, hydrology, forests, wetlands, educational technology and environmental engineering.