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Requirements for the Major
The Environmental Thought and Practice interdisciplinary major requires five core classes and six electives. At least 12 credits (or 4 courses of at least 3 credits) must be at the 3000 level or higher.
Core courses
The following core courses are required of all majors.
A shared introductory course
EVSC 2030/ETP 2030/PLAP 2030 Politics, Science, and Values: Introduction to Environmental Policy (fall only)
I. Values, Culture, and History (one class)
Either RELG 2210 (Religion, Ethics, & Global Environment), HIST 2150 (Global Environmental History) or ANTH 2260 (Culture and the Environment)
II. Policy, Planning, and Society (one class)
Either ECON 2010 Microeconomics, ETP/PLAP 4800 (Politics of the Environment) or GSVS 2150 (Global Sustainability)
III. Natural Science (one class)
Either EVSC 1010 (Introduction to Environmental Science), EVSC 1450 (Climate, You and CO2), EVSC 2200 (Plants, People and Culture) or EVSC 2220 (Conservation Ecology: Biodiversity and Beyond)
A shared final course
ETP 4010 Environmental decisions (majors only, taken in spring of 4th year) (spring only)
Electives
Each student must also choose six (6) classes distributed across three areas. At least one (1) class must be taken in Values, Culture, and History and at least one (1) class must be taken in Policy, Planning and Society. At least two (2) classes must be taken in Natural Sciences. We recommend checking SIS frequently for environmentally-themed courses, as courses often come and go. Students who wish to have classes not specified here counted against their ETP elective requirements must submit their request plus the full course syllabus to Professor Lawrence by email. ETP elective courses must be upper-level or graduate three- or four-credit classes and they must have environmental concerns as the central focus. Requests to count courses that do not meet these basic requirements will not be considered.
I. Values, Culture, and History
Students may fulfill their one-class requirement for this track by taking any one of the following specific 3-credit classes. If approved by the ETP Director, students may count one related 3-credit 3000-, 4000-, or 5000-level class in History, Anthropology, Philosophy, English, Religious Studies, Landscape Architecture, or Science, Technology, and Society to meet the overall six-course elective requirement, but not to meet the basic one-class requirement for this area. The College allows students to count 18 credits of classes in other schools toward the 120-credit graduation requirement.
AAS 3250 - MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty
AMST 2711 - American Environmental History
ANTH 3100 - Indigenous Landscapes
ANTH 2850 - American Material Culture
ANTH 2890 - Unearthing the Past
ANTH 3130 - Disease, Epidemics and Society
ANTH 3240 - The Anthropology of Food
ANTH 3340 - Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 3580 - Science and Culture
ANTH 3685 - Austronesia: World of Islands
ANTH 3870 - Archaeology of Virginia
ANTH 3880 - African Archaeology
ANTH 3885 - Archaeology of Europe
ANTH 3890 - Archaeology of the American Southwest
ANTH 4060 - People, Culture and Environment of Southern Africa
ANTH 5590 - The Nature of Nature
ENAM 3160 - Realism and Naturalism in America
ENAM 4500 - American Natures
ENMC 3500 - Jungle Stories
ENSP 3559 - Plants and Empire
ENSP 3500 - Climate Fiction
ETP 2020 - Global Sustainability
ETP 3220 - Uranium and the American West
ETP 3870 - Framing the Environment: Literary, Critical, and Philosophical Responses to Nature
ETP 4810 - Class Race & the Environment
HIAF 3112 - African Environmental History
HILA 4511 - Environmental History of Latin America
HIST 2210 or GSGS 2210 - Epidemics, Pandemics, and History
HIUS 2711 - American Environmental History
HIST 3112 - Ecology and Globalization in the Age of European Expansion
HIST 4501 - Modern Environmental History
HIST 4501 - Water, Development, Global History
MDST 3584 - Screening Nature
MDST 4210 - Global Environmental Media
MESA 3110 - Sustainable Environments Middle East and South Asia (Spring 19) Farmer
MUSI 3400 - Eco-Acoustics
PHIL 2500 - Environmental Ethics
PHIL 2500 - Animal Minds
PHIL 3652 - Animals and Ethics
PHYS 1090 - Galileo and Einstein
RELC 3795 - Theology, Spirituality and Ethics of Sustainability
RELG 3820 - Global Ethics & Climate Change
II. Policy, Planning, and Society
Students may fulfill their one-class requirement for this track by taking any one of the following specific 3-credit classes. If approved by the ETP Director, students may take one related 3-credit 3000-, 4000-, or 5000-level course in Economics, Politics, Sociology, Statistics, McIntire School of Commerce, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Engineering, the Law School, Darden, or Urban and Environmental Planning to meet the overall six-course elective requirement, but not to meet the basic one-class requirement for this area.
ECON 4430 - Environmental Economics
ECON 3559 - Economics of Sustainability and the Environment
ETP 3220 or CHEM 3220 - Uranium and the American West
ETP 3860 - The Business of Saving Nature
ETP 4810 or PLAP 4810 - Class, Race, and the Environment
EVSC 4030 - Environmental Policymaking in the United States
EVSC 4040 - Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy
EVSC 3020 - GIS Methods
EVSC 4070 - Advanced GIS
PLAD 2500 - Politics, Poverty and Health
PLAP 3160 - Politics of Food
PLAP 4500 - GIS in the Social Sciences
PLCP 4500 - Politics of Air Pollution
PLCP 3500 - Environmental Politics in China
SOC 2630 - Environment & Society
III. Natural Science
Two 3000-, 4000- or 5000-level 3-credit courses in Environmental Sciences or one 3-credit course at the 3000- 4000- or 5000-level in Environmental Sciences plus a second course from the following list. If approved by the ETP Director, students may take one related 3000-, 4000-, or 5000-level class in Biology, Chemistry, or Environmental Engineering to meet the overall six-class elective requirement, but not to meet the basic two-class requirement for this area. (Note: upper-level Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering classes can have several prerequisites.)
BIOL 3450 - Biodiversity and Conservation
BIOL 3020 - Evolution and Ecology
BIOL 4090 - Environmental Public Health
BIOL 3660 - Marine Biology and Coral Reef Ecology in San Salvador
EVSC 2800 - Fundamentals of Geology
Credit/No Credit Grades
Please note that the ETP program adheres strictly to the College of Arts and Science’s policy regarding classes taken for CR (credit) or NC (no credit). Courses counting towards the ETP area requirements and core courses may NOT be taken on a CR/NC basis. The College does not permit students to take courses on a CR/NC basis in interdisciplinary programs, nor does it permit students to count courses taken on a CR/NC basis towards a major, minor, or College area requirements.
For more information contact:
Deborah Lawrence, Clark Hall, P.O. Box 400123, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123