Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies
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The Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies is a liberal arts degree designed to impart students with the practical skills and knowledge required to critically evaluate environmental problems and issues and provide applied solutions. The major is decidedly interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on the underlying natural processes relating to the environment and understanding and employing the scientific method.
Degree Requirements
1. Successful completion of the General Education Program of the College of the Pacific - at least 42 units.
2. Completion of College BA language requirement: One year of college instruction or equivalent training in a language other than English.
3. Successful completion of major courses following the formula in this list:
One course in Chemistry:
CHEM 23 Elements of Chemistry
CHEM 25 General Chemistry
Two of the following in Biological Sciences courses:
BIOL 35 Environment: Concepts and Issues
BIOL 41 Introduction to Biology
BIOL 51 Principles of Biology
BIOL 61 Principles of Biology
BIOL 74 Biology of Insects
BIOL 77 Marine Birds and Mammals
BIOL 76 Marine Biology
BIOL 77 Marine Birds and Mammals
BIOL 79 California Flora
GEOS 43 Environmental Science for Informed Citizens
One of the following Earth Science courses:
GEOS 51 Dynamic Planet
GEOS 53 Earth & Life Through Time
GEOS 61 Geology of California
GEOS 65 Regional Geology
Two of the following Environmental Policy courses:
CIVL 171 Water and Environmental Policy
ECON 157 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
GEOS 45 Soil, Water, and War
HIST 136 American Environmental History
INTL 174 Global Environmental Policy
SOCI 93 Environment and Society
Two of the following Humanities courses:
ENGL 126 Environment and Literature
HIST 52 John Muir's World
PHIL 35 Environmental Ethics
One course in Statistics:
MATH 35 Elementary Statistical Inference
MATH 37 Introduction to Statistics and Probability
Experiential Learning:
GEOS 187 Internship
GEOS 197 Undergraduate Research
Concentration: (Biology, Geology, or Policy)
See reverse side
Biology: Concentration
BIOL 051 Principles of Biology
BIOL 061 Principles of Biology
BIOL 175 Ecology
or BIOL 176 Ecology and Conservation Biology
Two of the following organismal classes:
BIOL 074 Biology of Insects
BIOL 076 Marine Biology
BIOL 077 Marine Birds and Mammals
BIOL 079 California Flora
BIOL 130 Plant Kingdom
BIOL 151 Parisitology
BIOL 193 Fishes of California
Geosciences Concentration
In addition to the two GEOS courses taken for the core, choose three of the following:
GEOS 102 Spatial Analysis and GIS
GEOS 103 Global Change
GEOS 106 Earth Materials and the Environment
GEOS 114 Structural Geology
GEOS 142 Geochemistry
GEOS 144 Geomorphology
GEOS 148 Hydrogeology
Policy Concentration
In addition to the two policy courses taken for the core, choose three of the following
CIVL 171 Water and Environmental Policy
ECON 157 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
GEOS 045 Soil, Water, and War
HIST 136 American Environmental History
INTL 174 Global Environmental Policy
POLS 119 Government in Action: Public Policy Analysis
POLS 193 Comparative Environmental Policy
SOCI 111 Environment and Society