Undergraduate Program Description
The Environmental Studies major is designed to provide an interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary overview of the environmental studies field, coupled
with an in-depth study of one subfield. The core requires coursework in
the sciences and social sciences and students may build options based on
one or several related fields in these categories.
As part of the Environmental Studies major, students must select a 20-24
unit program of electives. Five options allow students latitude in providing
specialization to a particular field of interest: Human Environment, Physical
Environment, Ecology and Life Sciences, Environmental Health, and Land Use
Planning and Management. Courses in these options must be distributed across
three departments.
Environmental Studies majors are provided internship opportunities through
assignments in public and private agencies on projects related to citizen
action, environmental planning, or in research. Ten to twenty hours weekly
are required. Supervision and evaluation are by agency personnel and the
course is conducted by the instructor. The internship may be repeated once
for credit.
Scholarship Richard and Evelyn Thoman Scholarship in Geography and Environmental
Studies
One $500 scholarship awarded for the academic year for full-time undergraduate
or graduate studies. Awards are limited to students with upper division
or graduate standing. A grade point average of 3.0 or higher is required,
and demonstrated scholastic and creative ability in the field of Geography
or Environmental Studies.
Advanced Placement
Students who earn a grade of 3 or higher on the College Entrance Examination
Board's Advanced Placement Test in Environmental Science will be given 4
units of credit equivalent to ENVT 2000.
Major Requirements (B.A.)
Please consult an advisor in your major department for clarification and
interpretation of your major requirements. The major consists of 94-103
units; the B.A. degree requires a total of 186 units.
I.
Lower Division
(35-38 units)
BIOL 1001 (or
one of 1003, 1005, 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2004) and 1002 (or 1004 or
2005) and 2030 (or 2040 or 1301, or 1302) (9-10)
CHEM 1000 or 1100 or 2001 or 2002 (4-5)
GEOL 1001 (or 1003 or 1004) and 1002 (6)
ECON 2301
(4)
ENVT 2000 (4)
GEOG 2100 or 2410 (4)
STAT 1000 or 2010 or C S 1020 or 1160 (4-5)
II.
Upper Division
(39-41 units)
BIOL 3031 or
3110 (4)
ECON 4306 (4)
ENVT 4100, 4300, 4800, and 4910 (14-16)
GEOG 3000 (4)
GEOG 3450
(5)
POSC 3460 and 4171 (8)
III.
Program of
Electives (20-24 units)
Students must
select one of the following options. Five or six courses, totaling
20-24 units, distributed across at least three departments, in one
of the following five options:
A.
Ecology/Life
Sciences
BIOL 3015 Natural
History of Marine Organisms (4); BIOL 3031
Nature Study (4) or BIOL 3110
Principles of Ecology (4); BIOL 3115 Marine Biology (4), 3116 Fresh-Water
Biology (5), 3210 Woody Plants of California (4), 4130 Biogeography
(4); GEOG 4125 Field Course in Physical-Biotic Geography (4); MSC
4103 Marine Ecology (6); SOC 3100 Human Ecology (4)
B.
Environmental
Health
ANTH 1001 Mankind
and Food (4), 3720 Medical Anthropology (4); BIOL 3070 Optimal Nutrition
(4), 3410 Epidemiology (3), 4010 Microbes and Humanity (4); GEOG 3340
Urban Planning (4); HDEV 2001 Human Development in Contemporary Society
(4); HSC 3200 Environmental Health (4); SOC 3100 Human Ecology (4)
C.
Human Environment
ANTH 1000 Introduction
to Anthropology (4), 1001 Mankind and Food (4), 2300 Cultural Anthropology
(4), 3000 Anthropology in the Modern World (4); ART 4081 The City:
A Collective Work of Art (4); GEOG 2300 Cultural Geography (4), 2310
Economic and Resource Geography (4), 3300 Historical Cultural Geography
(4), 3330 Urban Geography (4), 3340 Urban Planning (4), 3360 Historical
Geography of United States (4), 3505 Geography of California (4),
4325 Field Course in Cultural-Urban Geography(4); HDEV 2001 Human
Development in Contemporary Society (4); HSC 3200 Environmental Health
(4); PSYC 3500 Social Psychology (4); REC 3700 Community Organization
in the Urban Setting (4), 4700 Environmental Recreation (4); SOC 3100
Human Ecology (4), 3200 Introduction to Population Analysis (4), 4450
Urban Sociology (4); STAT 3010 Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences
(4)
D.
Land Use
Planning and Management
GEOG 2100 Physical
Geography (4), 2310 Economic and Resource Geography (4), 3000 Resource
Management (4), 3115 Physical Landscape Analysis (4), 3340 Urban Planning
(4), 3410 Air Photo Interpretation (4), 3505 Geography of California
(4), 3600 Cartographic Principles and Graphic Communication (4), 4320
Energy Resources and Management (4), 4350 Water Resources and Management
(4), 4425 Remote Sensing of Earth Environments (4); POSC 1400 Introduction
to Public Affairs and Administration (4); POSC 3120 State and Local
Politics and Government (4) or POSC 3130 Urban Politics (4), 3800
Public Policy Analysis (4), 4147 Public Policy and the Environment
(4); PUAD 4800 The Study of Public Administration (4), 4830 Organization
Theory and Human Behavior (4); REC 3700 Community Organizations in
the Urban Setting (4), 4300 Physical Setting of Leisure Services (4),
4700 Environmental Recreation (4)
E.
Physical
Environment
GEOG 2100
Physical Geography (4), 3120 Climatic Change (4), 3115 Physical Landscape
Analysis (4), 4125 Field Course in Physical-Biotic Geog. (4); GEOL
1201 Introduction to Oceanography (4) or GEOL 3400 General Oceanography
(4); GEOL 2101 (or 2100) Physical Geology (5), 3030 Earth and Life
Through Time (5), 3040 Fundamentals of Meteorology (4), 3100 Geology
of the Western Nat'l Parks (4), 3110 Principles of Geomorphology (4);
PHIL 3331 History of Science (4), 3332 Philosophy of Science (4)
Other Degree Requirements
In addition to major requirements, every student must also complete the
University requirements for graduation which are described in the Baccalaureate
Degree Requirements chapter in the front of this catalog. These include
the General Education-Breadth requirements; the U.S. history, U.S. Constitution,
and California state and local government requirement; the University Writing
Skills requirement; and the residence, unit, and grade point average requirements.
Minor Requirements
The minor is designed to encourage and enable students enrolled in any major
to organize their elective courses around a broad study of the environment
and its problems from both a social and scientific perspective. The minor
consists of 36 units arranged in an integrated pattern, as approved by an
advisor. The core program includes three sequential courses (totaling 12
units) which are required of all students in the minor. The remaining 24
units are electives selected from the list below.
I.
Core Courses
(12 units)
ENVT 2000 Introduction
to Environmental Studies (4)
ENVT 4300 Environmental Field Studies (5)
ENVT 4800 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (3)
II.
Electives
in Natural Science (8 units minimum)
Two courses
outside the major department, chosen from the following list, which
will be expanded as relevant new courses develop:
BIOL 3110 Principles
in Ecology (4); GEOL 1001 Introduction to the Earth Sciences (or 1003
or 1004) (4), 1002 Environmental Geology Laboratory (2) and GEOL 1201
Introduction to Oceanography (4), 2101 Physical Geology (or 2100)
(5), 3040 Fundamentals of Meteorology (4); GEOG 2100 Physical Geography
(4), 3120 Climatic Change (4)
III.
Electives
in Social Science (8 units minimum)
Two courses
outside the major department, chosen from the following list, which
will be expanded as relevant new courses are developed:
ENVT 4100 Environmental
Impact Analysis (4); GEOG 2300 Cultural Geography (4), 3000 Resource
Management (4), 3340 Urban Planning (4); POSC 3460 Environmental Law
(4), 4171 Public Policy and the Environment (4); SOC 3100 Human Ecology
(4)
IV. Additional
Electives (8 units minimum)
Chosen from
list II or III (above) or from the following list and Independent
Study projects. No more than 5 units may be in the department of the
undergraduate major:
BIOL 3031 Nature
Study (4), 3115 Marine Biology (4), 4010 Microbes and Humanity (4),
4130 Biogeography (4); MSC/BIOL 4103 Marine Ecology (6); GEOG 2310
Economic and Resources Geography (4), 3320 Geography of World Agriculture
(4), 3330 Urban Geography (4), 3340 Urban Planning (4), 4320 Energy
Resources and Management (4), 4350 Water Resources and Management
(4); GEOL 3400 General Oceanography (4); SOC 3200 Social Demography
(4), 4450 Urban Sociology (4)
Environmental Studies Option: Liberal Studies
Area III.B
(4 units)
ENVT 2000 Introduction
to Environmental Studies (4)
Area VII
Credential Track, or Area VI, Liberal Arts Track (24 units)
ENVT 4100 Environmental
Impact Analysis (4)
ENVT 4300 Environmental Field Studies (5)
ENVT 4800 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies (3)
Twelve units selected from the following:
ECON 4306 Environmental
Economics (4); ENVT 4910 Internship in Environmental Studies (2-4);
GEOG 3000 Resource Management (4), 3120 Climatic Change (4), 3115
Physical Landscape Analysis (4), 3320 Geography of World Agriculture
(4), 3330 Urban Geography (4), 3340 Urban Planning (4), 3360 Historical
Geography of North America (4), 3400 Field Geography of the San Francisco
Bay Region (4), 4320 Energy Resources and Management (4), 4325 Field
Course in Cultural-Urban Geography (4), 4350 Water Resources and Management
(4); GEOL 2300 Natural Disasters (4), 3000 Conservation of Natural
Resources (5), 3030 Earth and Life Through Time (5), 3110 Principles
of Geomorphology (4); HSC 3200 Environmental Health (4); POSC 3460
Environmental Law (4), 4171 Public Policy and the Environment (4);
SOC 3100 Seminar in Human Ecology (4)
3400
Environmental
Resource Analysis (4)
Quantitative methods for environmental problem solving including unit
analysis, computer aided analysis, common functions, statistics, and
error analysis.
3999
Issues
in Environmental Studies (4)
Readings, discussion, and research on contemporary and/or significant
issues in environmental studies. May be repeated for credit when content
varies.
4100
Environmental
Impact Analysis (4)
The language and changing dynamics of the environmental review process.
Contents and standards of environmental impact reports and their role
in the planning process. (W)
4300
Environmental
Field Studies (5)
Weekly visits to various sites throughout the Greater Bay Area to
observe environmental processes. Natural areas, industrial facilities,
environmentally related agencies. Prerequisites: ENVT 4100 and senior
standing in Environmental Studies. One hr. lect., 8 hrs. field. (Sp)
4800
Senior
Seminar in Environmental Studies (3)
Problem-oriented around selected topics of environmental concern,
and requiring projects or reports. Prerequisites: ENVT 2000, 4300;
restricted to seniors completing the major or minor in Environmental
Studies. (Sp)
Internship
in Environmental Studies (2-4)
Assignments in public and private agencies on projects related to
citizen action, environmental planning, or in research. Ten to twenty
hours weekly. Supervision and evaluation by agency personnel and the
course instructor. Students exchange ideas and experiences in weekly
group sessions which are conducted by the instructor. May be repeated
once for credit. Prerequisite: ENVT 2000 and consent of instructor.
