New BS degree for Class of 2013

Bachelor of Science.

A bachelor of science in environmental studies is offered for the student particularly interested in scientific and technical aspects of human and natural systems.  As a bachelor of science major, it is meant to provide substantial depth in environmental sciences and related fields within the context of a liberal education.

The new BS is designed to include more aspects of environmental science than were included under the environmental biology focus of the old one, and to guide students toward 'concentrations' to organize their science electives toward their professional interests.  The structure of the new major more closely resembles other BS degrees at Bucknell.

A senior thesis culminates the BS major. The Bachelor of Science in environmental studies major requires 19 courses distributed as follows:

1.         ENST 201: Gateway to Environmental Studies
2.         BIOL 208 or GEOG 332: Ecology
3.         GEOL 106: Earth Science
4.         MATH 201
5.         MATH 216
6.         ECON 103
7.         CHEM 201
8.         CHEM 202
9.         Humanities Core (from list A, below)
10.       Social Science Core (from among the social science courses in list C, below)
11.       (1) Science and technology course (from list D, below)
12.       (2) Science and technology course
13.       (3) Science and technology course
14.       (4) Science and technology course
15.       (5) Science and technology course
16.       (6) Science and technology course
17.       (7) Science and technology course
18.       ENST 411: Senior Clinic
19.       Senior thesis: ENST 349 and ENST 350, preferably taken as one-half credit
             in each of junior and senior years. 

Requirements 9] through 17] are satisfied by selecting a nine (9) course concentration.  This concentration should be designed by each student in consultation with an academic advisor and approved by the program director by the spring of the second year.  BS concentrations have been designed in the following fields; descriptions may be obtained from the program director or any advisor:
Ecology
Pollution and its Consequences
Watershed Science
Environmental Hazards
Students may propose their own concentration.

COURSE LISTS

The BS environmental studies degree is based on these lists of courses.

List A: Humanities Courses

ENGL 120 Literature and the Environment, ENGL 201 Nature Writing/Writing Nature, ENST 205 Green Utopias, ENST 207 American Environmental History, ENST 229 Environmental Thinkers, ENST 247 Environmental History of the Ancient World, ENST 371 Environmental History, PHIL 218 Ecology, Nature and the Future, RELI 226 Environmental Ethics, RELI 234-01 The End of Nature and the Posthuman Future, RELI 234-02 The Ethics of Consumption.

List C: Electives 

All courses with the ENST course designation and all courses in lists A and B, plus: ANTH 260 Anthropological Perspective on Human-Environment Relations, ANTH 410 Cross Cultural Perspectives on the Environment, CAPS 407 Politics and Economics of International Environmental Aid, ECON 231 Resources and the Environment, GEOG 231 Weather and Climate, GEOL 205 Introduction to Geochemistry, GEOL 207 Environmental geohazards

List D: Human-Environment Systems Science Courses:

BIOL 206 Organismal Biology, BIOL 245 Tropical Marine Biology, BIOL 266 Animal Behavior, BIOL 312 Vertebrate Anatomy, BIOL 313 Mammalogy, BIOL 318 Comparative Physiology, BIOL 321 Behavioral Ecology, BIOL 334 Limnology, BIOL 341 Organic evolution, BIOL 353 Ecosystem Ecology, BIOL 354 Tropical Ecology, BIOL 355 Social Insects, BIOL 356 Plant-Animal Interactions, BIOL 357 Ornithology, BIOL 358 Invertebrate Zoology, BIOL 359 Entomology, BIOL 370 Primate Behavior and Ecology, BIOL 415 Conservation Biology, CENG 320 Water Resources Engineering, CENG 421 Hydrology, CHEG 455 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, CHEM 211 Organic Chemistry I, CHEM 212 Organic Chemistry II, CHEM 360 Advanced Environmental Chemistry, ENST 211 Environmental Pollution and Control, ENST 221 Hazardous Waste and Society, GEOG 204 Applied GIS, GEOG 231 Weather and Climate, GEOG 235 Marine Environment, GEOG 257 Global Environmental Change, GEOG 332 Evolution, Ecology, and Human Impact, GEOL 205 Introductory Geochemistry, GEOL 207 Environmental Geohazards, GEOL 210 Geomorphology, GEOL 230 Environmental GIS, GEOL 305 Aqueous and Environmental Geochemistry, GEOL 310 Applied Environmental Geomorphology, GEOL 324 Hydrogeology, UNIV 298 Stream Restoration, UNIV 299 Watershed Systems Science