2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Environmental Studies, BA

Location(s): Henniker Campus

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Description and Learning Outcomes

Requirements

(39+ Credits)

ES 1110 - Environmental Science: A Global Concern Credits: 4
ES 2410 (PA 2410) - Environmental Ethics Credits: 2
ES 2550 (EC 2550) - Environmental Economics and Management Credits: 2
ES 3000 - Careers in Environmental Science Credits: 1
ES 3255 - Environmental Policy Credits: 2
ES 3300 - Research Methods Credits: 4
ES 4000 - Research Thesis Credits: 2 Must be taken twice for a total of 4 credits.
CH 2010 - Introduction to Chemistry Credits: 4
MT 2310 - Statistics Credits: 4
SU 2100 - Introduction to Sustainability Credits: 4

Required Electives

Students must complete 8 credits from the following list of courses:

ES 1120 - Environmental Science Practicum Credits: 2
ES 2010 (BU 2010) - Intro to Excel Programming Credits: 2
ES 2990 - Topics in Environmental Science Credits: 2 to 4
ES 3340 (BI 3340) - Conservation Biology Credits: 4
ES 3350 - Introduction to Soil Science Credits: 2
ES 3550 - Water Resources Credits: 2
ES 3640 - Wetlands Credits: 4
ES 3655 - Solid Waste Management Credits: 2
ES 3850 - Geographic Information Systems Credits: 4
ES 4680 - Energy and the Environment Credits: 2
ES 4910 - Environmental Studies Internship Credits: 1 to 16

Liberal Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum, Bachelor’s Degree

LAS 1000 - First-Year Seminar Credits: 2
WR 1010 - Composition Credits: 4 or approved LAS Writing course.
MT 1100 - Quantitative Reasoning Credits: 4 (MT courses numbered higher than 1100 are acceptable)
LAS 1 (LAS 1110) - The Natural Environment - Understanding Our Place in the Natural World Credits: 4
LAS 2 (LAS 1120) - The Civic Environment - Democratic Values Credits: 4
LAS 3 (LAS 2110) - Creative Arts Credits: 4
LAS 4 (LAS 2120) - Social Sciences Credits: 4
LAS 5 (LAS 2130) - Natural and Biological Sciences Credits: 4
LAS 6 (LAS 2140) - Humanities Credits: 4
LAS 7 (LAS 3110) - Global Perspectives Credits: 4
LAS Elective Credits: 4 (One additional course that meets any LAS requirement or combination of two 2-credit approved electives.)

Electives

Select additional electives to reach 120 credits for a Bachelor’s degree.