General university degree requirements stipulate that 1) at least four units of the major or three units of the minor be taken in residence at Puget Sound; 2) students earn at least a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in courses taken for the major or the minor; and 3) all courses taken for a major or minor must be taken for graded credit. Any exceptions to these stipulations are indicated in the major and minor degree requirements listed below.
Requirements for the Major in Environmental Policy and Decision Making (BA)
- The Environmental Policy and Decision Making major is a secondary major that can be chosen only after a primary major in another field is chosen. A major in Environmental Policy and Decision Making cannot be completed unless a primary major in another department or program is also completed. Because of extensive course overlap, the primary major cannot be Environmental Arts and Humanities.
- Completion of the following 8.25 units:
- ENVP 200
- ENVP 202 (0.5 units) or any three courses in natural sciences (BIO, CHEM, ENVS, PHYS)
- ENVP 203 (0.5 units)
- ENVP 253 (0.25 units)
- ENVP 400
- A minimum of two environmental policy elective units (see list below)
- Three additional elective units from the lists of environmental policy, environmental arts and humanities, earth and environmental sciences or general electives (see list below).
- At least two of the courses used to fulfill the electives for the Environmental Policy and Decision Making major must be outside of the student’s primary major department or program.
- Six requirements for the Environmental Policy and Decision Making major must be completed on campus at Puget Sound, including ENVP 200, ENVP 202 (unless 202 is replaced by three courses in the sciences), ENVP 203, one policy elective, and ENVP 400.
Requirements for the Major in Environmental Arts and Humanities (BA)
- The Environmental Arts and Humanities major is a secondary major that can be chosen only after a primary major in another field is chosen. A major in Environmental Arts and Humanities cannot be completed unless a primary major in another department or program is also completed. Because of extensive course overlap, the primary major cannot be Environmental Policy and Decision Making.
- Completion of the following 8.25 units:
- ENVP 200
- ENVP 202 (0.5 units) or any three courses in natural sciences (BIO, CHEM, ENVS, PHYS)
- ENVP 203 (0.5 units)
- ENVP 253 (0.25 units)
- ENVP 400
- A minimum of three environmental arts and humanities elective units (see list below)
- Two additional elective units from the lists of environmental policy, earth and environmental sciences or general electives (see list below).
- At least two of the courses used to fulfill the electives for the Environmental Policy and Decision Making major must be outside of the student’s primary major department or program.
- Six requirements for the Environmental Policy and Decision Making major must be completed on campus at Puget Sound, including ENVP 200, ENVP 202 (unless 202 is replaced by three courses in the sciences), ENVP 203, and ENVP 400.
Requirements for the Major in Earth and Environmental Science (BS)
Completion of the following 13.25 units:
- Two units from CHEM 105, 110, 120
- BIOL 112
- One unit from MATH 160, 260
- One unit from MATH 180, CSCI 141, CSCI 161
- Two units from ENVS 101, 105, 140
- ENVP 200
- ENVP 253 (0.25)
- ENVS 250
- Four units of Earth and Environmental Sciences electives (see list below).
ENVP 400 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies is recommended but not required.
Requirements for the Minor in Environmental Policy and Decision Making
- Completion of the following 5.25 units:
- ENVP 200
- ENVP 253 (0.25 units) Topics in Environmental Justice
- ENVP 400
- A minimum of one policy elective units (see list below)
- Two additional elective units from the lists of policy or general electives (see list below).
- Three requirements for the Environmental Policy and Decision Making minor must be completed on campus at Puget Sound, including ENVP 200, one policy elective, and ENVP 400.
Environmental Policy Electives
CONN 309 Applied Environmental Politics and Agenda Setting
CONN 410 Science and Economics of Climate Change
ECON 225 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ECON/ENVP 327 Climate Change: Economics, Policy, and Politics
ENVP 210 Fundamentals of U.S. Environmental Law and Policy
ENVP 310 Environmental Decision Making
ENVP 315 Energy Resources
ENVS 310 Water Resources
ENVP 322 Water Policy
ENVP 326 People, Politics, and Parks
ENVP 328 Nuclear Narratives of the American West
ENVP 342 Field School in Conservation and Development
ENVP/PG 382 Global Environmental Politics
IPE 331 International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
PG 305 U.S. Environmental Policy
Environmental Arts and Humanities Electives
ENGL 328 Ecopoetry
ENGL 374 Writing Climate Justice
ENVH 330 Water and Wild Nature
ENVH 310 Eco-Cinema
ENVH/GERM 425 Human and Nature in the Anthropocene
GERM 380 Green Germany
HIST 369 History of the West and Pacific Northwest
HIST 364 American Environmental History
HUM 330 Tao and Landscape Art
PHIL 285 Environmental Ethics
REL/BIOE 272 Public Health Ethics
REL 444 God in the Anthropocene
STHS 325 Natural History Museums and Society
STHS 375 Science, Technology, and Politics
THTR 200 Theatrical Experience
Earth and Environmental Sciences Electives
ENVS 301 Sedimentary Geology
ENVS 303 Earth Surface Processes
ENVS 304 Volcanology
ENVS 305 Earth History
ENVS 306 Fossil Record
ENVS 307 Field Methods and GIS
ENVS 310 Water Resources
ENVS 315 Energy Resources
ENVS 320 Environmental Geochemistry
ENVS 324 Biogeochemical Approaches to Environmental Science
ENVS 325 Environmental Catastrophes
ENVS 330 Regional Field Geology
ENVS 340 Climate Change
ENVS 390 Directed Research
ENVS 490 Seminar
ENVS 492 Senior Thesis
ENVS 495 Independent Study
ENVS 496 Independent Study
BIOL 211 Ecology
BIOL 370 Conservation Biology
BIOL 377 Field Botany
BIOL 379 Ornithology
BIOL 411 Advanced Ecology
BIOL 477 Marine Biology
CONN 350 Modeling Earth’s Climate
CHEM 231 Analytic Methods (0.50 units)
CHEM 330 Instrumental Analysis
CHEM 333 Environmental Analytical Chemistry
CSCI 141 Programming for Natural Sciences
CSCI 161 Introduction to Computer Science
General Electives
AFAM/ENVP 301 Environmental Racism
CONN 307 Hooch: The Natural and Social Science of Liquor
ENVP 204 Learning in Nearby Nature (0.25 units)
ENVS 250 Introduction to GIS (Geographic Information Systems)*
ENVP 335 Thinking about Biodiversity
ENVP 343 Buddhist Environmentalisms
ENVP 345 Community-Based Methods for Environmental Research
ENVP 350 Puget Sound Environmental Issues Part I: Politics and Public Participation (0.25 units)
ENVP 351 Puget Sound Environmental Issues Part II: Laws and Land Use Designations (0.25 units)
ENVP 352 Sustainability in Everyday Life (0.25 units)
ENVP 353 Environmental Careers and Callings (0.25 units)
ENVP 354 Contemplative Environments (0.25 units)
ENVP 355 Sacred Ecology (0.25 units)
ENVP 495 Independent Study (Variable credit up to 1.00 unit)
ENVP 496 Independent Study (Variable credit up to 1.00 unit)
ENVP 498 Internship
IPE/SOAN 407 Political Ecology
SOAN 205 Heritage of Asia: Nature, Culture, and the Politics of the Past
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
SOAN 481 Special Topics
STHS 344 Ecological Knowledge in Historical Perspective
*Required/not an elective for Earth and Environmental Science major; can count as elective in Environmental Policy and Decision Making major and minor and Environmental Arts and Humanities major