Program Offered:- Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies
The Environmental Studies Program at California State University San Marcos provides a collaborative setting for faculty, students, and community partners to study environmental and land-use issues. The degree provides introductory training in physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, land-use planning, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental policy and law, research methods, and environmental arts and humanities.
The multidisciplinary core of the degree comprises four general areas:
- Life and Physical Sciences provides the scientific background for the major, consisting of courses in biology, chemistry, physics, and ecology.
- Social Sciences and Policy exposes students to institutional and legal frameworks of environmental policy, and to processes by which policy is established.
- Research Methods prepares students with the quantitative tools - GIS, statistics, and research methods ? necessary for applied work in the professional arena, and also for graduate studies.
- Environmental Arts and Humanities encourages students to think critically, ethically, and aesthetically about the environment.
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