Environmental Studies
2011-12 FINAL 1-30-12
Advisors:
BOHDAN DZIADYK, Professor (Biology)
B.A., M.S., Southern Illinois; Ph.D., North Dakota State
NORMAN T. MOLINE, Edward Hamming Professor of Geography
A.B., Augustana; M.A., Ph.D., Chicago
The term “environment” has broad implications — from a neighborhood to a region to the world — and includes resources such as water, air, soils, plants, animals, energy sources, recreational areas, farmlands, and urban and suburban areas. One concern is to preserve healthy rural and urban environments; another is to improve our polluted and degraded landscapes. Yet another is to identify and adopt sustainable practices as societies continue to put demands on the earth’s finite resources and contribute to global climate change.
To understand the complexity of the environmental studies field, students need both disciplinary depth and breadth of understanding. Augustana’s program emphasizes the connections between disciplines in the natural and social sciences and humanities so that students may develop a general perspective on environmental issues and a focus related to their specific interests.
The major is intended for two categories of students: (1) those with no other major or with a major outside of the natural sciences who desire a good broad-based perspective on the environment and a modest level of focused study in biology, chemistry, geography, geology or political science and humanities; and (2) those who have declared majors in other disciplines explicitly related to studying and managing natural and/or urban environments (e.g., biology, chemistry, geography, geology and political science) who desire this second major to add breadth of perspective to complement the focused perspective of their other discipline.
MAJOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. 37 credits, distributed among Core Courses (seven courses/21 credits); Elective Supporting Courses (two courses/6 credits); and Integrative Experiences, including an academic internship (four courses/ 10 credits).
MINOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. 27 credits, distributed among Core Courses (six courses/18 credits); Elective Supporting Courses (two courses/6 credits); ENVR-INTR Academic Internship or ENVR 380.
Core Courses
Biology 200 (PN) General Zoology OR 220 General Botany
Biology 180 Fundamentals of Ecology OR 380 General Ecology
Chemistry 101 Fundamentals of Chemistry OR 121 (PN,I)
General Chemistry
Geography 101 (PN,I) Global Weather and Climate Systems
OR 102 (PN,I) Landforms and Landscapes
OR 103 (PN,I) Water and Land Resources
Geography 307 Environmental Conservation and
Development OR 308 Land Resources Management
Geology 101 or 105 (both PN,I) Physical Geology
OR 115 (PN,I) Environmental Geology
OR 116 (PN,I) Energy Resources and the Environment
English 315 Environmental Literature OR Political Science 336 (PS) Politics of Environmental Policy
Elective Supporting Courses
Two 300- or 400-level electives from one discipline are required for a major or minor in environmental studies to supplement a non-science major. Two 300- or 400-level electives in two different disciplines outside the primary major are required for a major or minor in environmental studies to supplement another environment-oriented major.
Biology 200 (PN) General Zoology
Biology 220 General Botany
Biology 225 Local Flora
Biology 323 Plant Diversity
Biology 326 Plant Ecology
Biology 331 Vertebrate Zoology
Biology 333 Invertebrate Zoology
Biology 335 (PN,I) Entomology
Biology 385 (PN) Applied Ecology
Biology 387 Aquatic Biology
Chemistry 121,122 (both PN,I) & 123 General Chemistry I, II
and III
Chemistry 200 Quantitative Analytical Chemistry
Chemistry 311 Organic Chemistry I
Chemistry 315 Environmental Chemistry
Computer Science 211 Introduction to Computer Science I
Economics 202 Principles of Microeconomics
English 315 Environmental Literature
Geography 101 (PN,I) Global Weather and Climate Systems
Geography 102 (PN,I) Landforms and Landscapes
Geography 103 (PN,I) Water and Land Resources
Geography 305 Water Resources Management
Geography 307 Environmental Conservation and Development
Geography 308 Land Resources Management
Geography 373 GIS and Remote Sensing
Geology 101 OR 105 (both PN,I) Physical Geology
Geology 115 (PN,I) Environmental Geology
Geology 116 (PN,I) Energy Resources and the Environment
Geology 301 Mineralogy
Geology 309 Geomorphology
Geology 330 Hydrogeology
Mathematics 315 Probability and Statistics OR Psychology
240 (Q) Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Physics 102 & 103 (both PN,I) Principles of Physics II and III
Physics 202 (PN,I) & 203 Basic Physics II and III
Political Science 336 (PS) Politics of Environmental Policy
Religion 325 (PH) Environmental Ethics
