2008-09 Catalog

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Planning Unit

Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies (ES) planning unit offers broadly interdisciplinary academic studies within and across three distinctive thematic areas, Human Communities and the Environment, Natural History and Environmental Sciences. Programs emphasize interdisciplinary, experiential study and research primarily in the Pacific Northwest with additional work in other areas of the United States and Canada. Foreign study is possible. Included in the unit is an emphasis on global climate change and sustainability. Learn more...

The Evergreen State College’s Graduate Program on the Environment also offers a Master of Environmental Study (MES) degree. 

Programs Switch to "View by Quarter"

Advanced Research in Environmental Studies
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Animal Behavior & Zoology
Revised: 05/06/2008
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Climate Change Lower Division     Spring
Dance: Body, Culture and Behavior All level Fall Winter  
Data and Information: Computational Linguistics All level Fall    
Educating On the Wild Side All level     Spring
Environmental Analysis
Revised: 05/02/2008
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Environmental Health: Science, Policy and Social Justice
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Food, Health and Sustainability All level Fall Winter  
Food, Place and Culture All level     Spring
Green Studio
Revised: 05/08/2008
Faculty Signature Required
All level Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Individual Studies: Environmental Studies
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall    
Individual Study: Topics in Environmental Education, Science Education, Environmental Studies, and Education
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Introduction to Environmental Chemistry Lower Division Fall Winter  
Introduction to Geology
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
Marine Life: Biological Oceanography Junior/Senior Fall    
Marine Life: Marine Ecology Junior/Senior   Winter  
Marine Life: Marine Science Research Junior/Senior     Spring
Microbial Ecology All level Fall    
Natural History Expedition Leadership
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior   Winter Spring
CANCELLED The Opening Of The Field: Ecopoetics, Ecology and Ideas All level   Winter Spring
Political Ecology of Land Junior/Senior     Spring
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall   Spring
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Community Development
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior     Spring
The Olympic Peninsula All level Fall Winter