Public Lands Management 3 credits This management-oriented course explores the current and traditional approaches to public land and resource management. A regional focus on the Western U.S. is integrated with comparative examples from other regions and countries to enhance and broaden student perspectives. Numerous monitoring techniques will be implemented based on principles of biology, chemistry, and geology, and data interpretation will be addressed. The emphasis is on collaborative and integrative group projects dealing directly with real-world environmental problems. Students collect information, analyze results, write a report, and present their findings to the public.
Reports are at a level of quality that they can be presented to and used by decision makers.
ENVS 410 Environmental Ethics 2 credits This seminar requires students to process the complexities of environmental issues from a philosophical perspective. The course also offers a survey of the evolution of environmental moral philosophy as well as in-depth analysis of major thinkers in the field. Students will confront ethical concerns from both historical and personal perspectives, with an emphasis on the ability to critically evaluate and apply these perspectives to their work in environmental fields. This internship or thesis combines the work in a student's major and work in environmental studies. Students must have approval from an Environmental Studies adviser.