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Environmental Studies

Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA

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Program
Award
Environmental Studies
CIP
30.3301
Credits (computed from items)
16
Catalog edition
2026
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
164924
CourseShelf checklist
CK_164924_bfbf5dbf
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Major Requirements

19 items
  1. EESC 2201
    EESC2201 Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  2. EESC 2202
    EESC2202 Environmental Systems: Ecosystems ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  3. EESC 2203
    EESC2203 Environmental Systems: Water Resources ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  4. EESC 2204
    EESC2204 Environmental Systems: Carbon Cycle ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  5. EESC 2205
    EESC2205 Environmental Systems: Climate Change ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  6. EESC 2206
    EESC2206 Environmental Systems: Oceans ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  7. EESC 2207
    EESC2207 Environmental Systems: Earthquakes ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  8. EESC 2208
    EESC2208 Environmental Systems: Quantitative Methods ()
    Not resolved to a course
    2
  9. HIST 2406
    HIST2406 This Land Is Your Land: US Environmental History
    Not resolved to a course
  10. SOCY 3562
    SOCY3562/ENVS3562 Environmental Sociology
    Not resolved to a course
  11. ENVS 3325
    ENVS3325 Ecologies of Power
    Not resolved to a course
  12. ENVS 3360
    ENVS3360 Research Methods in Environmental Studies
    Not resolved to a course
  13. ENVS 3370
    ENVS3370 / EESC3070 Geospatial Data Analysis for Environmental Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  14. ENVS 4941
    ENVS4941 Senior Research Seminar [Fall]
    Not resolved to a course
  15. ENVS 4942
    ENVS4942 Senior Research Seminar II [Spring]
    Not resolved to a course
  16. ENVS 4951
    ENVS4951 Senior Thesis I [Fall]
    Not resolved to a course
  17. ENVS 4952
    ENVS4952 Senior Thesis II [Spring]
    Not resolved to a course
  18. ENVS 4961
    ENVS4961 Senior Honors Thesis I [Fall]
    Not resolved to a course
  19. ENVS 4962
    ENVS4962 Senior Honors Thesis II [Spring]
    Not resolved to a course

8. Concentration (18 credits):

126 items
  1. ENVS 3324
    ENVS3324 Conservation Policy and Governance
    Not resolved to a course
  2. ENVS 3354
    ENVS3354 Wildlife and Society
    Not resolved to a course
  3. BIOL 1440
    BIOL1440 Sustaining the Biosphere
    Not resolved to a course
  4. BIOL 2010
    BIOL2010 Ecology and Evolution
    Not resolved to a course
  5. ENVS 2372
    ENVS2372 Field Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  6. ENVS 3323
    ENVS3323 Conservation Science
    Not resolved to a course
  7. BIOL 4030
    BIOL4030 Deep Sea Biology
    Not resolved to a course
  8. BIOL 4130
    BIOL4130 Ecology in a Changing Climate
    Not resolved to a course
  9. BIOL 4450
    BIOL4450 Behavioral Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  10. ENGL 1724
    ENGL1724 Nature and Power: Reading the American Place
    Not resolved to a course
  11. ENGL 2202
    ENGL2202 Beast Literature
    Not resolved to a course
  12. ENGL 5030
    ENGL5030 Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
    Not resolved to a course
  13. PHIL 2444
    PHIL2444/ENVS2445 The Vegetative Soul: The Hidden Life of Plants
    Not resolved to a course
  14. THEO 2231
    THEO2231 Bible and Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  15. EESC 1174
    EESC1174 Climate Change and Society
    Not resolved to a course
  16. EESC 1704
    EESC1704 Climate Change and the Corporation
    Not resolved to a course
  17. EESC 1720
    EESC1720 Climate & Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  18. ENVS 2241
    ENVS2241 U.S. Partisanship and Climate Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  19. HIST 1507
    HIST1507 Powering America: Energy, Tech, Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  20. SOCY 1031
    SOCY1031/ENVS1105 Society and Environmental Transformations
    Not resolved to a course
  21. SOCY 1509
    SOCY1509/HIST1505 Planet in Peril
    Not resolved to a course
  22. BIOL 3200
    BIOL3200 Ecology in a Changing Climate
    Not resolved to a course
  23. EESC 3311
    EESC3311 Earth System Science and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  24. EESC 3396
    EESC3396 The IPCC Scientific Assessment
    Not resolved to a course
  25. EESC 4464
    EESC4464 Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis
    Not resolved to a course
  26. EESC 4480
    EESC4480 Applications of GIS
    Not resolved to a course
  27. EESC 5535
    EESC5535 Coastal Geomorphology and Processes
    Not resolved to a course
  28. EESC 5599
    EESC5599 Climate Change Debates
    Not resolved to a course
  29. ARTS 2207
    ARTS2207 Urban Design for Complexity and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  30. CSCI 2267
    CSCI2267 Technology and Culture
    Not resolved to a course
  31. ECON 3391
    ECON3391 Economics of Energy and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  32. ENGL 3358
    ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  33. ENVS 3340
    ENVS3340 Alternative Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  34. ENVS 3355
    ENVS3355 Sustainable Cities
    Not resolved to a course
  35. ENVS 4006
    ENVS4006 Place Making for a Net Zero Future: Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design
    Not resolved to a course
  36. PHIL 3690
    PHIL3690 Energy Justice: Ethics, Economics, and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  37. PHIL 3999
    PHIL3999 The Ethics of Emerging Technologies
    Not resolved to a course
  38. PHIL 5515
    PHIL5515 How to Save the World: Ethics of Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  39. POLI 2531
    POLI2531 Energy Politics in U.S., Comparative and Global Perspective
    Not resolved to a course
  40. INTL 2230
    INTL2230/ENVS2230 Geographies of Nature and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  41. EESC 1170
    EESC1170 Rivers and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  42. EESC 3310
    EESC3310 Agroecology
    Not resolved to a course
  43. ENVS 3315
    ENVS3315 Sustainable Agriculture
    Not resolved to a course
  44. EESC 2297
    EESC2297 Environmental Hydrology
    Not resolved to a course
  45. EESC 331
    EESC331 Earth System Science and Global Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  46. EESC 4464
    EESC4464 Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis
    Not resolved to a course
  47. EESC 4480
    EESC4480 Application of GIS
    Not resolved to a course
  48. COMM 2229
    COMM2229 Food, Media, Culture
    Not resolved to a course
  49. COMM 4470
    COMM4470 Communication, Capitalism, Consumerism
    Not resolved to a course
  50. ENVS 3331
    ENVS3331 Geopolitics of Water
    Not resolved to a course
  51. ENVS 3345
    ENVS3345 Environment and Public Health
    Not resolved to a course
  52. ENVS 3355
    ENVS3355 Sustainable Cities
    Not resolved to a course
  53. ENVS 3356
    ENVS3356 Seminar in Environmental Law
    Not resolved to a course
  54. ARTS 2207
    ARTS2207 Urban Design for Complexity and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  55. ENGL 4439
    ENGL4439 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Food, Hunger, and Identity
    Not resolved to a course
  56. ENVS 2246
    ENVS2246/PHIL2246 Earth Ethics: Morality, Ecology and Social Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  57. HIST 4703
    HIST4703 Environmental Histories of Water
    Not resolved to a course
  58. PHIL 5534
    PHIL5534 Environmental Ethics
    Not resolved to a course
  59. THEO 2231
    THEO2231 The Bible and Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  60. ARTS 1161
    ARTS1161 Photography I or ARTS1163 Introduction to Digital Photography
    Not resolved to a course
  61. COMM 2204
    COMM2204 Digital Media Fundamentals or COMM2221 Digital Media Field Production
    Not resolved to a course
  62. COMM 2213
    COMM2213 Fundamentals of Audio I
    Not resolved to a course
  63. ENGL 4201
    ENGL4201 Science Writing
    Not resolved to a course
  64. FILM 1171
    FILM1171 Filmmaking I
    Not resolved to a course
  65. FILM 2230
    FILM2230 Video Art
    Not resolved to a course
  66. JOUR 2225
    JOUR2225 Journalism and New Media
    Not resolved to a course
  67. JOUR 2232
    JOUR2232 Investigative Journalism
    Not resolved to a course
  68. JOUR 2246
    JOUR2246 Podcasting: The Art and Craft of Digital Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
  69. JOUR 2261
    JOUR2261/ENVS2261 Environmental Journalism: Science, Society, Solutions
    Not resolved to a course
  70. COMM 2265
    COMM2265 Theory, History and Practice of Talk Media
    Not resolved to a course
  71. COMM 4470
    COMM4470 Communication, Consumerism, Capitalism
    Not resolved to a course
  72. ENGL 3358
    ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  73. ENGL 4028
    ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
  74. ENGL 4280
    ENGL4280 Beast Literature
    Not resolved to a course
  75. ENGL 6045
    ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
    Not resolved to a course
  76. ECON 1101
    ECON1101 Principles of Economics Core
    Not resolved to a course
  77. ACCT 3330
    ACCT3330 Sustainability Reporting and Analysis: Accounting for a Changing World (prerequisite: ACCT 1021)
    Not resolved to a course
  78. ECON 2212
    ECON2212 Geographic Information Systems for Planning and Decision-Making
    Not resolved to a course
  79. ECON 3040
    ECON3040 Health and the Environment: People, Policy, and Technology
    Not resolved to a course
  80. ECON 3391
    ECON3391 Economics of Energy & the Environment (ECON2201 and ECON2228 are prerequisites)
    Not resolved to a course
  81. SOCY 1072
    SOCY1072 Inequality in America
    Not resolved to a course
  82. SOCY 3322
    SOCY3322 Consumption, Health, and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  83. SOCY 3375
    SOCY3375 Economic Crisis and Social Crisis
    Not resolved to a course
  84. SOCY 3661
    SOCY3661 Urban Sociology
    Not resolved to a course
  85. COMM 2275
    COMM2275 Communication, Consumerism, Capitalism
    Not resolved to a course
  86. HIST 2702
    HIST2702 Colonial Pasts/Global Presents
    Not resolved to a course
  87. HIST 2703
    HIST2703 Is All Commerce Capitalism?
    Not resolved to a course
  88. PHIL 5901
    PHIL5901 The Ethics and Politics of Capitalism
    Not resolved to a course
  89. BSLW 3345
    BSLW3345 Managing for Social Impact & the Public Good
    Not resolved to a course
  90. MGMT 2137
    MGMT2137 Managing Diversity
    Not resolved to a course
  91. MGMT 2139
    MGMT2139 Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Not resolved to a course
  92. MGMT 2265
    MGMT2265 Globalization, Culture, & Ethics
    Not resolved to a course
  93. ENVS 3345
    ENVS3345 Environment and Public Health
    Not resolved to a course
  94. PHIL 5534
    PHIL5534 Environmental Ethics
    Not resolved to a course
  95. THEO 3223
    THEO3223 The Ethics of Global Public Health and the Common Good
    Not resolved to a course
  96. MCPH 1210
    MCPH1210/PHCG1210 Public Health and Global Society
    Not resolved to a course
  97. NURS 5350
    NURS5350 Global Health Care: Meeting Challenges and Making Connections
    Not resolved to a course
  98. PHCG 2130
    PHCG2130 Global Public Health Law
    Not resolved to a course
  99. PHCG 3210
    PHCG3210 Contemporary Issues in Public Health
    Not resolved to a course
  100. BIOL 1480
    BIOL1480 Pathogens and Plagues
    Not resolved to a course
  101. BIOL 3090
    BIOL3090 Foundations of Microbiology (requires BIOL2000)
    Not resolved to a course
  102. PHCG 4140
    PHCG4140 Children’s Health and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  103. AADS 4485
    AADS4485/HIST4485 History of Medicine and Public Health
    Not resolved to a course
  104. ENGL 2212
    ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
    Not resolved to a course
  105. HIST 2230
    HIST2230 Science before the Scientific Revolution
    Not resolved to a course
  106. PHCG 2130
    PHCG2130 Global Public Health Law
    Not resolved to a course
  107. SOCY 1002
    SOCY1002 Introduction to Sociology for Healthcare Professions
    Not resolved to a course
  108. SOCY 1078
    SOCY1078 Sociology of Health and Illness
    Not resolved to a course
  109. SOCY 3322
    SOCY3322 Consumption, Health, and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  110. ENVS 2241
    ENVS2241 Partisanship and Climate Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  111. POLI 2338
    POLI2338 Environmental Politics and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  112. POLI 2441
    POLI2441 Comparative Politics of Development
    Not resolved to a course
  113. POLI 2446
    POLI2446 Natural Resource Politics
    Not resolved to a course
  114. POLI 2531
    POLI2531 Politics of Energy and Climate in U.S. and International Perspectivess
    Not resolved to a course
  115. ENVS 3324
    ENVS3324 Conservation Policy and Governance
    Not resolved to a course
  116. ENVS 3356
    ENVS3356 Seminar in Environmental Law
    Not resolved to a course
  117. ENVS 4408
    ENVS4408 Democracy and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  118. INTL 2230
    INTL2230/ENVS2230 Geographies of Nature and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  119. INTL 2533
    INTL2533 Global Climate Politics
    Not resolved to a course
  120. ENVS 3325
    ENVS 3325 Ecologies of Power
    Not resolved to a course
  121. SOCY 1500
    SOCY1500 Global Perspectives on Climate Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  122. SOCY 1072
    SOCY1072 Inequality in America
    Not resolved to a course
  123. SOCY 1501
    SOCY1501 Global Implications of Climate Change Core
    Not resolved to a course
  124. ECON 2208
    ECON 2208 Economic Justice (requires ECON1101)
    Not resolved to a course
  125. SOCY 3346
    SOCY3346/ENVS3347 Environmental Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  126. SOCY 3400
    SOCY3400/AADS3400 Food Justice across the African Diaspora
    Not resolved to a course

Minor Requirements

19 items
  1. EESC 2202
    EESC2202 Environmental Systems: Ecosystems
    Not resolved to a course
  2. EESC 2203
    EESC2203 Environmental Systems: Water Resources
    Not resolved to a course
  3. EESC 2204
    EESC2204 Environmental Systems: Carbon Cycle
    Not resolved to a course
  4. EESC 2205
    EESC2205 Environmental Systems: Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  5. EESC 2206
    EESC2206 Environmental Systems: Oceans
    Not resolved to a course
  6. EESC 2207
    EESC2207 Environmental Systems: Earthquakes
    Not resolved to a course
  7. EESC 2208
    EESC2208 Environmental Systems: Quantitative Methods
    Not resolved to a course
  8. ENVS 3360
    ENVS3360 Research Methods in Environmental Studies
    Not resolved to a course
  9. ECON 2277
    ECON2277 Environmental Economics and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  10. ECON 2278
    ECON2278 Environmental Economics
    Not resolved to a course
  11. ENVS 2246
    ENVS2246 Earth Ethics: Morality, Ecology, and Social Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  12. ENVS 3315
    ENVS3315 Sustainable Agriculture
    Not resolved to a course
  13. HIST 2406
    HIST2406/ENVS2406 The Land Is Your Land: U.S. Environmental History
    Not resolved to a course
  14. HIST 4703
    HIST4703 Environmental Histories of Water
    Not resolved to a course
  15. MGMT 2145
    MGMT2145 Environmental Management
    Not resolved to a course
  16. SOCY 1031
    SOCY1031 Society and Environmental Transformations
    Not resolved to a course
  17. SOCY 1509
    SOCY1509 Planet in Peril: History and Future of Human Impact
    Not resolved to a course
  18. SOCY 3562
    SOCY3562 Environmental Sociology
    Not resolved to a course
  19. PHIL 5534
    PHIL 5534 Environmental Ethics
    Not resolved to a course
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