Minimum number of credits required to graduate: 124
Minimum Cumulative GPA required to graduate: 2.0
Minimum number of credits to complete the major: 60
School: School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Natural Sciences
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The Environmental Sciences and Sustainability (ESS) major is an interdisciplinary program that recognizes that the need to understand, respond to, and remediate the impacts of human activity on the natural systems of the planet is immediate and unprecedented. Current and future generations of students will be faced with the challenge to re-think, re-design and re-create how humans make use of all natural resource based systems on earth. The ESS major uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how scientific, cultural, economic, and political ideas shape our behavior toward the natural environment, and how the natural environment in turn affects society. The curriculum is designed to be rigorous yet flexible, requiring a set of core courses but allowing students to pursue their own interests within the broader world of environmental studies. Graduates of the program will be prepared for a variety of career paths in research, consulting, industry, education and outreach, and on the ground conservation and field work.
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