Environmental Ethics and Policy, B.A., Requirements

The University’s bachelor of arts in environmental ethics and policy is designed to provide students with a firm foundation in environmental science and ecology and the influence these sciences have on the development of political policy, environmental ethics, and recent theological reformulation within the Judeo-Christian tradition. The program culminates in a capstone experience designed to challenge students to apply their area of study to specific issues germane to the Pacific Northwest.

 

University Requirements - 39 hours

See Core Curriculum

College Requirements - 21-33 hours

See College Requirements BA

Degree Requirements

Major Requirements — 55 hours

Required:

ENV 182	Environmental Science	3
ECN 322	Environmental Economics	3
	Or
ECN 325/ENV 325	Economics and Metrics for Sustainability	3
ENV 400/PCS 400	Integrating Seminar in Environmental Studies	3

4 credits from below:

BIO 363	Freshwater Ecology	3
	with
BIO 373	Freshwater Ecology Laboratory	1
BIO 341	The Nature of Plants	3
BIO 371	Field Botany	1
BIO 338	Marine Biology of the Pacific Northwest	3
BIO 368	Marine Biology Laboratory	1
BIO 345	Vertebrate Biology	3
BIO 375	Vertebrate Biology Laboratory	1
BIO 391	Lake and Stream Biology	3
	with
BIO 392	Lake and Stream Biology Lab	1
BIO 391	Conservation Biology	3
BIO 391	Entomology	3
BIO 442	Ecology	3
	with
BIO 472	Ecology Laboratory	1

3 credits from below:

ENV 383

Environmental Geoscience

3

3 credits from below:

THEP 482/PCS 482/ENV 482	Theology in Ecological Perspective	3
THE 353/PCS 353/THE 453	Religion and Science	3
THE 453/THE 353	Religion and Science	3

3 credits from below:

PHL 434/SJP 434	Environmental Ethics	3
THE 427/THE 327	Theological Environmental Ethics	3

3 credits from below:

ENV 110	Earth Systems Science	3
ENV 111	Natural Hazards in the Pacific Northwest	3
ENV 162	Introduction to Oceanography	3

21 credits from below:

ECN 322	Environmental Economics	3
ECN 325/ENV 325	Economics and Metrics for Sustainability	3
ENV 349/SJP 349/POL 349	Environmental Policy	3
ENV 493	Environmental Research	1-3
ENV 497	Environmental Internship	Variable
HST 357/SJP 357	Technology, Resources, and Environment in World History	3
PHL 434/SJP 434	Environmental Ethics	3
POL 320	United States Urban Politics	3
POL 335/SJP 335	American Public Policy	3
POL 338	Food, Politics and Policy	3
POL 351/SJP 351	International Law and Organizations	3
POL 356/SJP 356	Building World Peace	3
POL 372	Politics of Modern Europe	3
POL 379	Business in a Political World	3
POL 405	Law and the American Judiciary	3
POL 462	North-South Relations in a Globalized World	3
SW 456/SJP 456	Social Work for Sustainable Communities	3
THE 302/PCS 302/SJP 302/THE 402	Poets, Prophets, Divas, and Diviners	3
THE 327/THE 427	Theological Environmental Ethics	3
THE 358/THE 458	Intercultural Feminist Theology	3
THE 427/THE 327	Theological Environmental Ethics	3

Major Electives — 9 hours

Courses selected from the following:

CST 301	Media and Society	3
CST 327	Argumentation and Advocacy	3
CST 401	Rhetoric of Politics and Social Movements	3
ENG 363	The Literature of Nature and the Out-of-Doors	3
ENG 461	Oregon and Northwest Writers	3
ENV 384/BIO 384	Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems	3
ENV 385/BIO 385	Environmental Microbiology	3
ENV 386/CHM 386	Environmental Chemistry	3
ENV 387	Environmental Laboratory	1
ENV 493	Environmental Research	1-3
ENV 497	Environmental Internship	Variable
HST 314	American Frontier	3
HST 359	The Modern City	3
PHL 412/SJP 412	Philosophy of Law	3
PHL 413/SJP 413	Socio-Political Philosophy	3
SJP 413/PHL 413	Socio-Political Philosophy	3
PHL 414/SJP 414	Philosophy and Feminism	3
SJP 414/PHL 414	Philosophy and Feminism	3
PHL 422	Philosophy of Science	3
PHL 434/SJP 434	Environmental Ethics	3
POL 320	United States Urban Politics	3
POL 356/SJP 356	Building World Peace	3
POL 379	Business in a Political World	3
SOC 434	Urban Society	3
SW 466/SJP 466	Violence, Poverty and the Environment	3
SJP 466/SW 466	Violence, Poverty, and the Environment	3
THE 345/THE 445	Human Development in Theological Perspective	3
THE 354/THE 454	God and the Theological Imagination	3
THE 358/THE 458	Intercultural Feminist Theology	3
BUS 376	Sustainable Marketing	3

General Electives — 14-26 hours

Total Credit Hours: 120

48 hours of total credits must be upper-division.