Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Studies
333 South Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos, USA
273882
Last updated: 24/09/2024
About Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Studies
The Environmental Studies Program offers students an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree with broad training in the physical and life sciences, social sciences, policy and law, and the arts and humanities. The program includes introductory training in geographic information systems and research methods commonly used in environmental careers and opportunities for internships with a variety of environmental groups and agencies.
The core of the degree comprises four general areas:
- Life and Physical Sciences provides the scientific background for the major.
- Social Sciences and Policy exposes students to institutional and legal frameworks of environmental policy, and to processes by which policy is established.
- Research Methods prepares them with the tools – GIS, and other research methods – necessary for applied work in the professional arena, and also for graduate studies.
- Environmental Arts and Humanities encourages them to think critically, ethically, and aesthetically about the environment.
Students who graduate with a B.A. in Environmental Studies will:
- Describe the major physical processes affecting environmental resources.
- Explain and analyze the impacts of human activity on the environment.
- Critically analyze environmental problems and solutions from multiple perspectives including environmental justice.
- Describe the process of environmental policy development locally, nationally, and globally.
- Evaluate environmental issues from an ethical and aesthetic standpoint.
- Collect, organize, interpret, write about and present research and information about historical and contemporary environmental issues.
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