We don t do enough of this. Environmental studies majors have to complete nine prerequisites in science, culture, law, probability, international relations, statistics, ecology, philosophy, economics or physics. The professors said they see the major as an opportunity to expand their own research in environmental fields while helping students and other faculty members understand different fields. Whenever you think of the environment, chemistry is involved. Davies plans to incorporate his research of humic substances into the major.
Humic substances are brown polymers in the soil made from the remnants of organic matter.
By graduation, students will have a knowledge of the environment, communication skills, will know how to relate with people and understand the socio-economic structure of a community and have field training and an environmental seminar. They will not be experts in every field, but will know there is an interaction. From there, they can do more than just complain about environmental problems they can help clean them up.