Objectives are to enable students to:

  • develop a basic literacy in the natural and social sciences and the humanities as they contribute to an understanding of environmental issues;
  • critically analyze environmental problems;
  • identify, research, and evaluate environmental problems; and
  • compare, contrast, implement, and manage short- and long-term solutions to environmental problems. The department recommends that students interested in the Environmental Sciences degree have prior knowledge of chemistry, algebra, statistics, and biology.