Environmental Studies

By adding the Environmental Studies (ES) concentration to their major program, students from any program on campus can extend their academic learning with environmental issues and help make environmental and social change in real time and for decades to come.

The ES Concentration, working closely with the Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities, prepares students to address environmental questions in and across a variety of disciplines and scales, local to global, and past/present to future. ES studies equip them with both practical and theoretical tools and ideas that have emerged from the methods and practices of environmental humanities and sciences. The concentration trains students to engage with the interdisciplinary nature of environmental questions and “wicked” problems such as climate change, biodiversity, urbanization, inequality, and generational justice. With the overarching goal of addressing environmental justice within the environmental sciences and humanities, ES aims to cultivate the exchange of multidisciplinary academic communication with community engagement, hands-on problem solving, and renewed awareness of Indigenous and other marginalized realities, and create a new generation of mindful local to global environmental thinkers, policymakers, and activists.