• This interdisciplinary and integrated major seeks to advance students? critical abilities to solve real-world environmental problems, manage social-ecological systems in a sustainable manner, and affect decisions involving environmental policy, resource management, and biodiversity conservation, and human health. The ESS core curriculum provides fundamental knowledge of the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, mathematics and quantitative analysis, and social sciences and humanities.
  • The curriculum prepares students during their freshmen and sophomore years to pursue a concentration in-depth. Fundamental knowledge of all dimensions of the interdisciplinary curriculum, allows students to understand where their selected concentration fits together with the larger set of disciplinary skills needed to derive sustainable solutions to environmental challenges.