As our Environmental awareness deepens, and our desire to reduce pollution increases, we have begun to seek ways to lessen our impact on the planet. As a result, career opportunities in fields related to the environment have grown rapidly. The Environmental Studies major at Elmira College is truly interdisciplinary and is designed for students who wish to pursue careers with government agencies or in the private sector as researchers or policy makers....
Sustainability, stewardship, leadership Every day, the human population places more strain on the Earth‘s natural processes and resources. Understanding those processes and resources, and the ways in which they intersect with virtually all human endeavors, is vitally important to this generation and the ones to come. Elon‘s environmental studies program is grounded in the multidimensional aspects of sustainable practice and prepares students for careers...
Changes to the environment are challenging our ability as humans to adapt. Those changes are occurring across a wide range of scales and at unprecedented rates. Consider planetary issues such as global climate change, the appearance of ozone holes and the emergence of new diseases. At regional scales, witness depletion of resources such as fisheries stocks, or the reduction in biodiversity. At local scales, air pollution threatens urban development...
The environmental studies major is designed to prepare students for the rapidly expanding and dynamic possibilities for jobs related to the critical environmental issues facing our planet. Through integrated interdisciplinary learning experiences based in the classroom, in the laboratory, in the field, and off-campus, students will meet science goals shared by those in the natural sciences and will develop skills and experience in:
Introduction If you're interested in the green movement and its relationship to commerce, then you have found the right major in Business and Environmental Studies at Florida Tech. You'll learn to apply economics to environmental concerns and issues related to the climate and natural resources, preparing you for a career in making the world a better place through better business practices. Graduates go on to jobs in management, advocacy, lobbying,...
Global warming. Alternative energy sources. Watershed destruction. Issues of huge import stand at the center of the Franklin & Marshall Environmental Studies major.
When you choose an Environmental Studies major within the F&M Department of Earth and Environment, you will learn how society utilizes science to develop environmental policy, and how such decisions are affected by the values of the stakeholders.
Your schedule at Furman will allow plenty of room for courses taken outside your major and your General Education Requirements (GERs). Some students opt to take their electives along a certain theme, or concentration. This program is not a minor or a second major, but rather a completed group of interrelated courses that appears on your transcript. Concentrations support the goal of a liberal arts education by focusing on a particular topic from the...
Many contemporary problems of environmental quality are so complex that modern society and technology have not yet been able to coordinate efforts to reach satisfactory solutions. There is thus an urgent need for individuals to be well versed in one discipline (from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, or applied fields) and able to apply that discipline directly to environmental problems by integrating that knowledge with the contributions...
Environmental Studies provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and responding to environmental problems. From the natural sciences, students learn experimental techniques and methods of analysis needed to make accurate observations, to document change, to distinguish those changes resulting from human activity, and to understand what comprises healthy landscapes and functioning ecosystems. Students look to the humanities and social...
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Environmental Resource Management is an interdisciplinary major that includes coursework in the areas of physical and life sciences related to natural resource use, the legal aspects of resource ownership and use, and the economic and political aspects of resource allocation and environmental protection. The program also includes basic skills courses in areas such as communications, computers, statistics,...
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