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. 

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Advanced Research in Environmental Studies Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Animal Behavior & Zoology Revised: 11/17/2008 Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
CANCELLED Climate Change	Lower Division			Spring
NEW! Community Planning: The Future of the Organic Farm	All level			Spring
Dance: Body, Culture and Behavior Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Data and Information: Computational Linguistics Revised: 09/18/2008	All level	Fall
NEW! Ecology and the Built Environment	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
Educating On the Wild Side	All level			Spring
NEW! Energy Matters: Building the Path to Sustainability	Junior/Senior			Spring
Environmental Analysis Revised: 02/10/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Environmental Health: Science, Policy and Social Justice Faculty Signature Required	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! The Evolutionary Biology of Sex Revised: 08/26/2008	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
NEW! Evolutionary Ecology Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
Food, Health and Sustainability Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Food, Place and Culture Revised: 01/14/2009	All level			Spring
Green Studio Revised: 02/20/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Individual Study: 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! Into the Woods: Communities, Conflicts, Alliances Revised: 08/29/2008	Lower Division	Fall
NEW! Introduction to Environmental Chemistry Revised: 11/25/2008 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	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 Revised: 05/12/2008	All level	Fall
Natural History Expedition Leadership Revised: 05/12/2008 Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior		Winter	Spring
The Olympic Peninsula Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
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
Toward a Sustainable Puget Sound: Place, People and Policy Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter	Spring