Sustainability and the Environment

Sustainability and the Environment examines environmental change from an interdisciplinary perspective, with an eye towards the development of sustainable socio-ecological systems. Students create and evaluate evidence across a range of scientific fields, analyze debates in environmental ethics and ecological justice movements, study the causes and effects of socio-ecological crises, trace how power functions through food and agricultural systems, and envision how human and nonhuman biological processes would thrive in a better, regenerated, and sustainable world. Students graduating with this focus will be prepared to begin careers in areas like environmental science, land management, environmental reporting, or environmental nonprofits. This focus also prepares students for graduate programs in fields like ecology, environmental science, political ecology, and more.