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Learning Goals

Students completing the environmental studies minor will gain sufficient knowledge to understand environmental issues in the context of human interaction with the natural world, as students will complete courses from the perspectives of relevant natural sciences, engineering, quantitative reasoning, social sciences, and arts and humanities. As such, the learning goals for the new minor include:

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply skills and knowledge from multiple disciplines to the analysis of environmental problems and possible solutions;
  2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of major environmental issues and implications of those issues for humanity;
  3. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the interactions between human activities and the ecology of natural systems, as well as trade-offs and constraints on environmental policies.