Bachelor of Arts - Earth and Environment

Students can study the Earth and its movements—from the smallest of pebbles guided by a stream in just a few seconds to tectonic plates moving continents over millions of years.

As a department, Albion College combines theory, fieldwork and hands-on research so students can apply their study of the Earth to the pressing issues of today. They will examine the world’s physical structures and substances, analyzing their makeup and formation and developing sustainable ways to use and protect natural resources.

Students will learn to address transdisciplinary problems involving complicated systems with complex variables, a wide range of scales of both time and space, and often incomplete & ambiguous data sets. Former students have traveled across the country and even the Atlantic to study, research, and learn more about a specific issue and area.

Albion College's instructors are passionate about their areas of research and invest in students’ educational journeys so they are equipped and able to succeed in the classroom, in the field and in advanced study and work.