B. B. Ward 305, 306Topics in Environmental Studies Fall, Spring Special topics courses related to the broad field of environmental studies. The workshop will focus on currently unresolved environmental policy questions from the perspective of the scientific evidence available to support alternative interventions and the accompanying social, economic, and political trade-offs and conflicts that require adjudication. Spring The colloquium is noncredit, but regular participation is required of seniors in the program. Supplements the advice that students get in their own departments by exposing initial ideas and subsequent results to critique by students and faculty from other departments. Faculty lead discussions until the middle of fall term.
Students present their plans and results from midfall through midspring term.
Weekly meetings as needed. Program director and cooperating faculty Laboratory and Cognate Courses Choice of lab science and cognate courses should be discussed with an environmental studies program adviser and should be approved by the program director. These include any laboratory courses from chemistry, physics, geosciences and engineering. Students may propose alternative courses that must be approved by the director of the program. These include any laboratory courses from ecology and evolutionary biology and molecular biology.