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Earth and North America
One planet, many solutions

Environmental Thought and Practice majors engage with the biggest challenges of our time. We need science to understand environmental problems, but to solve them we need more than science. ETP embraces modes of inquiry from the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities. All disciplines have something to teach us about the way we inhabit this planet. ETP majors take that understanding into the world.

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UVA ETP group
One planet, many solutions

Environmental Thought and Practice majors engage with the biggest challenges of our time. We need science to understand environmental problems, but to solve them we need more than science. ETP embraces modes of inquiry from the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities. All disciplines have something to teach us about the way we inhabit this planet. ETP majors take that understanding into the world.

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AI generated illustration of ETP at UVA
One planet, many solutions

Environmental Thought and Practice majors engage with the biggest challenges of our time. We need science to understand environmental problems, but to solve them we need more than science. ETP embraces modes of inquiry from the natural and social sciences, the arts and humanities. All disciplines have something to teach us about the way we inhabit this planet. ETP majors take that understanding into the world.