The Environmental Studies Program is designed to enhance students’ awareness of the seriousness and complexity of regional and global environmental problems and to underscore the consequences and impacts of the human experience on the habitability of planet Earth. Environmental Studies concentrators learn to think, speak, and write clearly and articulately about environmental issues from a variety of perspectives.

The Environmental Studies Program is located within the Division of University Studies with teaching faculty coming from a number of departments and applying their knowledge and expertise to teaching and research endeavors that cross disciplinary boundaries. The concentrations in Environmental Biology, Environmental Economics, Environmental Geography, and Environmental Geology all have a required core of ENST courses that ensures a common experience and an interdisciplinary flavor to the curriculum. At the same time, students gain depth in a particular discipline by taking a specified suite of courses in biology, economics, geography, or geology.