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Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Program
Program Goals
Students will appreciate the scientific, economic, and political factors that combine to help us understand the inter-relationships between humans and the natural environment.
The course work is intended to equip students with the scholarly background and intellectual skills to understand and make sound decisions about a wide range of pressing environmental issues. Students will be given the opportunity to study specific environmental problems such as groundwater contamination, suburban sprawl, river basin management, environmental justice, and the greening of abandoned urban spaces.
Learning Objectives
After completing this program, students should
- appreciate the scientific, economic, and political factors that combine to help us understand the inter-relationships between humans and the natural environment.
- be equipped with the scholarly background and intellectual skills to understand and make sound decisions about a wide range of pressing environmental issues.
- have studied specific environmental problems such as groundwater contamination, suburban sprawl, river basin management, environmental justice, and the greening of abandoned urban spaces.