Requirements for the Major

The Environmental Thought and Practice interdisciplinary major requires four prerequisites, three core classes, and seven electives. Before enrolling in the major students must meet the College's natural sciences and social sciences area requirements.

Prerequisites

In order to apply for the major students must be enrolled in, or have already completed, at least two of the following related courses:

• ECON 201 Microeconomics



• Any Environmental Sciences class other than those taken to meet the core or Natural Science area requirements



• One of the following Statistics classes: STAT 212, SOC 311, ECON 371 (requires MATH 121 or equivalent), EVSC 503 (requires MATH 111, STAT 212, or equivalent), MATH 312 (requires MATH 310), or APMA 312 (requires APMA 310 or equivalent)



• PLAN 103 Introduction to Community and Environmental Planning

Core Courses

The following core courses are required of all majors:

• EVSC 230/ETP 230/PLAP 230 Politics, Science, and Values: Introduction to Environmental Policy



• Either ^*EVSC 280/280L (Physical Geology) or EVSC 320/320L (Fundamentals of Ecology) or EVSC 340/340L (Physical Hydrology) or EVSC 350/350L (Atmosphere and Weather)



• ETP 401 Environmental decisions (majors only)

^*EVSC 320, 340, and 350 all require one semester of calculus; EVSC 280 recommends one semester of chemistry; EVSC 320 recommends one semester each of chemistry and biology; EVSC 350 recommends one semester of physics with lab.

Electives

Each student must also choose seven (7) classes distributed across the three areas indicated below, with the restriction that at least two (2) classes must be taken in Area I (Values, Culture, and History) and at least one (1) class must be taken in each of Areas II and III (two classes are required in Area I because there are no such classes in the core curriculum).

I. Values, Culture, and History

• ANTH 334 Ecology and Society



• ETP 387/ ENLT 255 Framing the Environment



• LAR 512 History of Landscape Architecture



• LAR 513 History of American Landscape Architecture (requires LAR 512)



• LAR 514 Intro to Theories of Modern Landscape (requires LAR 512)



• PLAN 554 Environmental Ethics



• HIUS 271/STS 206 American Environmental History

If approved by one of the ETP Program Directors, students may count one (1) related 300-, 400-, or 500-level class in History, Anthropology, Philosophy, English, Religious Studies, Landscape Architecture, or Technology, Culture, and Communication against the two-class requirement for this area.

II. Policy, Planning, and Society^*

Students may fulfill their one-class requirement for this track by taking any one (1) of the following specific classes (there are no prerequisites for these upper-level Planning classes):

• ECON 443 Environmental Economics (requires ECON 301)



• ETP 322/CHEM 322 Uranium: Impacts on the American West



• ETP 386 The Business of Saving Nature



• ETP 481/ PLAP 481 Class, Race and the Environment



• ETP 480/ PLAP 480 Politics of the Environment



• EVSC 465 Environmental Policymaking



• PLAN 303 Neighborhoods, Community, and Regions



• PLAN 306 Law, Land, and the Environment



• PLAN 404 Planning in Government



• PLAN 551 Sustainable Communities



• PLAN 553 Environmental Policy and Planning

If approved by one of the ETP Program Directors, students may take one (1) related 300-, 400-, or 500-level course in Economics, Government and Foreign Affairs, Sociology, the Law School, Darden, or Urban and Environmental Planning to meet the overall seven-course elective requirement, but not to meet the basic one-class requirement for this area.

^*The College allows students to count 18 credits of classes in other schools toward the 120-credit graduation requirement.

III. Natural Science

Any 300- or 400-level EVSC course. If approved by one of the ETP Program Directors, students may take one (1) related 300-, 400-, or 500-level class in Biology, Chemistry, or Environmental Engineering (e.g., MAE 414, CE 205) to meet the overall seven-class elective requirement, but not to meet the basic one-class requirement for this area. (Upper level EVSC classes build on the classes listed above under "Core Classes." Upper-level Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering classes can have several prerequisites.)

Requirements for the Distinguished Majors Program (DMP)

Majors with a minimum 3.6 GPA in the major (and 3.4 GPA overall) are eligible for a distinguished majors program (DMP) for their fourth year. DMPs take a year-long independent study with a faculty advisor, with the goal of producing a thesis that is evaluated by outside readers. To participate in the ETP distinguished majors program, set up an appointment with Professor Thomson during the spring semester of your third year.

Credit/No Credit Grades

Please note that the ETP program adheres strictly to the College of Arts and Science's policy regarding classes taken for CR (credit) or NC (no credit). Courses counting towards the ETP prerequisites, area requirements, and core courses may NOT be taken on a CR/NC basis.

The College does not permit students to take courses on a CR/NC basis in interdisciplinary programs, nor does it permit students to count courses taken on a CR/NC basis towards a major, minor, or College area requirements.