Major

Thinking about an Environmental Studies Major?

Then you should:

1.	Read the information on these pages.
2.	Think about the following questions:
		What are your post-Hamline goals? What would you like to be doing five years from now? ten years from now? How will the Environmental Studies major help you meet your goals? What are your academic strengths? What academic areas need improvement in order for you to meet your goals?
3.	Meet with the director of Environmental Studies. During this meeting, you will discuss the questions posed above and the structure of Hamline's Environmental Studies program.
4.	If the Environmental Studies major is your choice, you will chose an area of concentration, which is then approved by the ES Director. We recommend that your academic advisor should be a faculty member with interests in environmental studies in that department. If you are a first year student, you should switch to an ES advisor after fall semester is complete. The ES Director will also help with advising issues as needed.
5.	If you are not sure if the ES major is appropriate for you, we suggest that you take introductory coursework in a department of interest and fulfill Hamline Plan requirements by taking classes from the list of Supporting Courses. Students may also take Introduction to Environmental Studies to help decide if the major fits their needs. Students should be prepared to declare an ES major by the end of their sophomore year at the latest.

Major Requirements

The environmental studies major consists of:

1.	Three required courses
2.	Six courses in a discipline chosen by the student
3.	Five supporting courses
4.	An internship

1. Each set of requirements is described below. Required courses:

• ESTD 1100: Introduction to Environmental Studies
• BIOL 1130: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
• ESTD 5950: Problem Solving in Environmental Studies

2. Disciplinary Concentration

Each student must take six courses (three of which must be numbered 3000 or higher) in a single academic department. This provides a depth of understanding in the particular field most closely allied to the student’s interests. The director of environmental studies must approve the disciplinary concentration chosen by each student majoring in environmental studies. 

3. Supporting Courses

These courses are designed to complement the disciplinary concentration and to provide the student with a multidisciplinary perspective. We require one course in each of the areas listed below. In certain circumstances, other courses may be used to fulfill these requirements upon approval by both the academic advisor and the director of environmental studies. Courses in the student’s department of disciplinary concentration may not be used to fulfill these requirements, except for the quantitative methods requirement (which may be fulfilled within the department of disciplinary concentration).

Environment and Human Values PHIL 1140: Ethics PHIL 3380: Concepts of Nature REL 1400: Christian Ethics REL 1510: Jewish Ethics REL 1560: Islam REL 3410: Feminist/Womanist Approaches to Christian Ethics

Quantitative Methods MATH 1200: Statistics and Data Analysis M&E 1230: Statistics /a>

Economics and Public Policy M&E 1200: Introduction to Business and Economics M&E 1210: Microeconomic Analysis M&E 1220: Macroeconomic Analysis M&E 3530: Economics of Public Finance M&E 5810: Managerial Economics PSCI 3700: Public Administration and Public Policy

Physical Science CHEM 1100: Chem-Energetics CHEM 1140: General Chemistry II PHYS 1110: Energy, the Environment, and the Economy PHYS 1160 or 1240: General Physics II

Culture, Politics and Economy br>ANTH 3460: From Development to Globalization ANTH 3480: Cultural Ecology M&E 3510 Labor Economics M&E 3700: Economic Development PSCI 3680: Politics and Society in Developing Areas

4. Internship

Each student must complete an internship related to environmental studies. The internship must be taken for academic credit and completed under the supervision of the environmental studies director. Guidelines for requirements for the internship are available from the environmental studies director.