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BA - Society, Environment, and Development

Society, Environment, and Development

This concentration is designed for students interested in human-environment relations, sustainable development, natural resource policy and management and the human dimensions of environmental restoration. Please Note: This is the teach out plan and changes are noted in bold italics.

Foundation Courses

Concentration (21 units beyond breadth)

Must take at least one 400 level capstone course during Junior/Senior year. Breadth courses not double-counted in concentration. Units GE
GEP 320 Geopolitics 4  
GEP 323 Resource Mgmt. & Devel. in global Perspective 4  
GEP 324 Climate Change and Society 4  
GEP 325 Global Food Systems: Scarcity & Sustainablility 3-4  
GEP 327 Latin America and the Caribbean 4  
GEP 328 Africa South of the Sahara 4  
GEP 330 Enviromental History 3-4  
GEP 332 Environmental Literature 3  
GEP 333 Natural Resource Planning 4  
GEP 335 US Environmental Policy 4  
GEP 336 US Environmental Law 3  
GEP 337 Landscape History of the American West 4  
GEP 339 Special Topics in Soc., Env., & Devel. 3-4  
GEP 346 Restoration Ecology 4  
GEP 370 Globalization and the City 4  
GEP 373 Energy, Technology, and Society 3-4  
GEP 422 Globalization and Environments 4  
GEP 431 Restoration and Society 4  
GEP 490/1 Capstone Methods and Project 6  
GEP 447 Conservation Biology 4  

Supporting Courses (6-8 unit minimum)

Choose any two courses; substitutions possible in consultation with an advisor.

Units GE
ANTH 352 Global Issues 4  
BIOL 131 Biological Diversity and Ecology 4 B2
ECON Microeconomics 4 D2
ECON 381 Natural Resources and Environ. Economics 4  
HIST 471 The American West 4  
LANGUAGE (200 level course) 4 C3
POLS 314 Enviromental Political Theory 4  
POLS 452 Politics of the Developing World 4  
SOCI 482 Sociology of the Environment 4  
SSCI 299 Sophmore Seminar: How to Think Like a Social Scientist 3 E
UNIV 238 Found. of Leadership 3 E
WGS 385 Transnational Feminisms 4