ENS prefix courses

ENS 201 Environmental & Sustainability Studies I: Humanities and Social Science

Offered fall term

This course will provide a foundation in the core ideas, theoretical concerns and practical approaches to environmental studies framed within the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Students will study human interactions with the environment, both natural and built, and inter-human relations conditioned by local and global environmental factors. Students will obtain a basic conceptual and historical understanding of the nature and value of their local, regional, and global environment.

ENS 202 Environmental & Sustainability Studies II: Natural Science & Policy

Offered spring term

This is an introduction to natural science and policy as they pertain to understanding environmental studies. The core ideas include understanding how the ecological theories of population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystems dynamics lay a scientific foundation to understanding the nature of current environmental issues and how they might be addressed individually and through governmental legislation.

ENS 300 Special Topics (Subtitle Required)

Offered fall & spring terms

Special topics in environmental studies. This course permits the offering of special topics in order to take advantage of faculty specialties. Course topic must be approved by the Environmental Studies Program Director. This course may be repeated up to a maximum of 6 credit hours under different subtitles.

ENS 395 Independent Work

Available fall or spring terms

Under special conditions selected students may investigate specific environmental issues and problems. The instructor and the student will agree on a formal semester plan/learning contract, which will be filed with the Environmental Studies Program Director and will include weekly reports to the instructor.

ENS 399 Internship in Environment & Sustainability

Available fall or spring terms

This course provides supervised professional experience in public and private sector positions, and is intended to introduce students to the skills and working environments of careers in environmental and sustainability studies. Students should consult with a ENS faculty member in advance of registering for this class. This course may be repeatable up to a maximum of six credit hours.

ENS 400 Senior Seminar - Capstone

Offered spring term

This course will draw on your interdisciplinary understanding of environmental issues and your problem-solving capacities developed while fulfilling Environmental Studies Minor requirements. It is a participatory capstone seminar designed to utilize and test your critical ability for independent thinking organized around specific environmental issues. Independent library work and writing assignments will be required in order to prepare for weekly, interactive topical seminar meetings. Group projects will culminate in individual term papers/projects on different aspects of the environmental issues under discussion. Specific topics will vary.