Environmental Studies, BA (New York)

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Introduction to College

INSC 1000 — Science at Northeastern

Core Courses

From the catalog
Introductory Courses

ENVR 1101 — Environmental Science
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
- PHIL 1180 — Environmental Ethics
- SOCL 1246 — Environment and Society
From the catalog
Scientific Foundations of Environmental Systems
ENVR 1110 — Global Climate Change
ENVR 3150 — Food Security and Sustainability
ENVR 3200 — Water Resources
From the catalog
Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems
ENVR 2515 — Sustainable Development
One of:
- ENVR 3540 — Environmental Psychology
- PHTH 2414 — Environmental Health
SOCL 4522 — Environmental Justice

Skills

All of:
- ENVR 3300 — Geographic Information Systems
- ENVR 3301 — Lab for ENVR 3300
ENVR 4000 — Science Communication and Professional Development

Research Methods

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- All of:
  - ENVR 2500 — Biostatistics
  - ENVR 2501 — Lab for ENVR 2500
- POLS 2400 — Quantitative Techniques

Capstone

ENVR 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1

Writing Requirements

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

Optional Co-op

From the catalog
Successful completion of EXED 2000 is required for participation in co-op.

EXED 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
One of:
- COOP 3945 — Co-op Work Experience
- COOP 3946 — Co-op Work Experience--Half Time
- COOP 3947 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad--Half Time
- COOP 3948 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

Concentrations (choose 1)

Environmental Ethics and Social Justice

From the catalog
Complete five of the following:

COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
PHIL 1180 — Environmental Ethics
POLS 2395 — Environmental Politics and Policy
Choose 20 semester hours from:
- All of:
  - BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
  - BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
- All of:
  - BIOL 1113 — General Biology 2
  - BIOL 1114 — Lab for BIOL 1113
- All of:
  - CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
  - CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
- EEMB 2302 — Ecology
- EEMB 2400 — Introduction to Evolution
- EEMB 4000 — Applied Conservation Biology
- ENVR 4504 — Environmental Pollution
- All of:
  - PHYS 1161 — Physics 1
  - PHYS 1162 — Lab for PHYS 1161
- PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy

Substitutions

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

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-studies-ba-new-york, and the official page is the authority.