Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Journalism, BS (Boston)

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Core Courses

One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 1200 — Dynamic Earth
  - ENVR 1201 — Lab for ENVR 1200
- ENVR 2200 — Earth's Changing Cycles
All of:
- ENVR 1400 — Foundations in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
- ENVR 1401 — Lab for ENVR 1400
All of:
- EEMB 2302 — Ecology
- EEMB 2303 — Lab for EEMB 2302
ENVR 2515 — Sustainable Development
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 1500 — Introduction to Environmental, Social, and Biological Data
  - ENVR 1501 — Lab for ENVR 1500
- All of:
  - ENVR 3300 — Geographic Information Systems
  - ENVR 3301 — Lab for ENVR 3300

Environmental and Sustainability Sciences Electives

From the catalog
Complete four courses from the following lists:

From the catalog
Earth Oceans and Environmental Change
Conservation, Restoration, and Management
Sustainable Planning and Development
Environment and Society
Choose 16 semester hours from:
- ENVR 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
- All of:
  - ENVR 2310 — Earth Materials
  - ENVR 2311 — Lab for ENVR 2310
- All of:
  - ENVR 2340 — Earth Landforms and Processes
  - ENVR 2341 — Lab for ENVR 2340
- One of:
  - ENVR 3125 — Global Oceanic Change
  - ENVR 3600 — Oceanography
- All of:
  - ENVR 4500 — Applied Hydrogeology
  - ENVR 4501 — Lab for ENVR 4500
- ENVR 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
- ENVR 5190 — Soil Science
- ENVR 5600 — Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience
- ENVR 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry
- EEMB 2400 — Introduction to Evolution
- EEMB 3460 — Conservation Biology
- EEMB 3465 — Ecological and Conservation Genomics
- EEMB 4001 — Landscape and Restoration Ecology
- ENVR 4505 — Wetlands
- ENVR 5700 — Streams and Watershed Ecology
- ENVR 5750 — Urban Ecology
- ENVR 3150 — Food Security and Sustainability
- ENVR 3200 — Water Resources
- ENVR 5000 — Community Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Management and Research
- ENVR 5210 — Environmental Planning
- ENVR 5350 — Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions
- ENVR 5563 — Advanced Spatial Analysis
- ENVR 5800 — Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions
- ENVR 5220 — Ecosystem-Based Management
- ENVR 5450 — Applied Social-Ecological Systems Modeling
- POLS 2395 — Environmental Politics and Policy
- PPUA 5260 — Ecological Economics
- PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy
- SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society

Foundation Courses

All of:
- JRNL 1101 — Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting and Writing
- JRNL 1102 — Journalist’s Toolbox
JRNL 1150 — Understanding Today’s News
JRNL 2201 — Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting

Visual Storytelling

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
- JRNL 5309 — News Documentary Production
- JRNL 5310 — Photojournalism
- JRNL 5314 — Video News Reporting and Producing

Law and Ethics

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- JRNL 3550 — The First Amendment and the Media
- JRNL 4650 — Ethics and Diversity in the News Media

Electives

16 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete any four journalism electives with two at the 3000-level or above.

Introduction to College

One of:
- INSC 1000 — Science at Northeastern
- JRNL 1000 — Journalism at Northeastern

Co-op

One of:
- EESC 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
- EEAM 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Integrative Course

From the catalog
Courses used as electives may not overlap with the following:

One of:
- ENVR 4050 — Solving Emerging Environmental Challenges through Capstone
- ENVR 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
- ENVR 4997 — Senior Thesis
One of:
- JRNL 3650 — Science Writing
- JRNL 3700 — Data Storytelling

English Requirements (First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines)

One of:
- ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
- ENGW 1102 — First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers
One of:
- ENGW 3307 — Advanced Writing in the Sciences
- ENGW 3303 — Advanced Writing in the Environmental Professions
- ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
- JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism

GPA requirements

Grade of C or better required in the following courses.

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

EEAM 2000 ↔ EESC 2000 (tier B)
ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
ENGW 3307 ↔ ENGW 3315 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under environmental-and-sustainability-sciences-and-journalism-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.