Environmental Analysis Major
The Environmental Analysis Major is a flexible, 49-credit program that focuses on developing critical skills and competencies in interdisciplinary environmental problem-solving. It is ideal for students seeking interdisciplinary training focused on the environment and sustainability and is designed to stand alone or complement another primary major.
Required core disciplinary courses (Choose 3)
BIOL 2950: Introduction to Environmental Biology
ENST 101: Earth's Future: Causes and Consequences of Global Climate Change *
ENST 102: To Sustainability and Beyond: People, Planet, Prosperity *
ENST 252: Sustainability in Business
ENST 111: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone *
ENST 215: Introduction to Environmental Humanities
ENST 250: One Health: Linking Health of Humans, Animals, & Environment
EPSC 201: Earth & the Environment (Every Semester) **
EPSC 202: Introduction to Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science **
POLSCI 2010: Introduction to Environmental Policy (Fall or Spring)
*Open to first-year students only; per college rules for Beyond Boundaries coures. Students may count two BB courses toward this section of the major.
**Students may count EPSC 201 or EPSC 202 toward the major.
Required core courses in analysis and communication (Choose 4)
ANTHRO 428W: Original Research in Environmental Anthropology
DRAMA 214: Public Speaker: Embodied Communication
DRAMA 4081: Theatre for Social Change
ENST 350W: Writing skills for environmental professionals
ENST 357: Multiparty environmental decision-making
ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science
IPH 3123: Introduction to Digital Humanities
MATH 2200 or MATH 3200
Students may count a fifth analysis and communication course toward the depth electives.
One course in social identity and environment (Choose 1)
ENST 111: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone
GEST 232: Intergroup Dialogue: Race/Ethnicity
SOC 2010: The Roots of Ferguson: Understanding Racial Inequality in the Contemporary U.S.
SOC 2110: Social Inequality in America
SOC 3212: The Social Construction of Race
SOC 2520: Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
AAS 2010: The Roots of Ferguson: Understanding Racial Inequality in the Contemporary US
One interdisciplinary environmental capstone course (Choose 1)
ENST 405: Sustainability Exchange: Community and University Practicums
ENST 407: RESET: Renewable Energy and Decarbonizing the Grid
ENST 452: International Climate Negotiation Seminar
ENST 539: Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
ENST 498: Senior Thesis Research
Due to intensity of these project-based classes, students may only take one per semester.
Students may count a second capstosne course toward the depth electives.
One 1-credit Fourth-Year Reflection Seminar
This is a one-credit seminar to be taken during the fourth year, the purpose of which is to create a written narrative portfolio synthesizing, integrating, and reflecting on learning across courses and experiences in the major. Reflection will occur through personal writing and discussion with peers in the course.
ENST 492: Environmental Studies Fourth Year Reflection Seminor
Breadth/Depth Electives
Students will choose depth and breadth elective courses from the three categories below (Social Science, Humanities and Arts, Natural Science). Students must choose 7 elective courses with at least 4 courses from one category and at least 1 course in each of the other two categories. This means that students can choose a 5/1/1 combination or a 4/2/1 combination from the elective categories. The following flexibility is allowed regarding substitutions: Students may count a fifth analysis and communication course toward the depth electives; Students may count a second capstone course toward the depth electives; students may request one course substitution outside of the electives listed below to take advantage of unique one-time or rarely offered courses. To complete any major, the College of Arts and Sciences requires that students must complete no fewer than 18 units of courses numbered 300 or above within the major with a grade of C-or better. There is no doubling count of advanced classes (300-and 400-level) between two majors or a major and a minor. The rule of ‘no double-counting of upper-level units’ also applies to students who are double majoring across schools.
Social Science (SSC)
AMCS 299: The Study of Cities and Metropolitan America
ANTHRO 3215: Food, Culture, and Power
ANTHRO 3472: Global Energy and the American Dream
ANTHRO 360: Placemaking St. Louis (no longer offered)
ANTHRO 3602: Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
ANTHRO 3608: Caribbean Island Vulnerabilities: Puerto Rico (no longer offered)
ANTHRO 361: Culture and Environment
ANTHRO 3613: Follow the Thing: Global Commodities & Environment (no longer offered)
ANTHRO 3618: Urban Ecological Anthropology
ANTHRO 374: Social Landscapes in Global View
ANTHRO 379: Meltdown: The Archaeology of Climate Change
ANTHRO 3880: Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health, and Environment (no longer offered)
ANTHRO 4280: Tourism & Sustainability (no longer offered)
ECON 451: Environmental Policy
ENST 251: Metropolitan Environment
ENST 310: Ecological Economics
ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel and the Middle East (no longer offered)
ENST 341: International Energy Politics (no longer offered)
ENST 346: Environmental Justice
ENST 461: Intro to Environmental Law
ENST 482: Applications in Geospatial Intelligence
MGT 401M: Sustainable Devel & Cons Through Entrepreneurial Collaboration: Madagascar
**MGT 402: Ethical Issues in Managerial Decision Making
MGT 460L: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
**MGT 460M: Social Impact: Planning, Measuring and Building
MPH 5323: TPS: Climate Change and Public Health *
POLSCI 363: Quantitative Political Methodology
POLSCI 389A: Power, Justice, and the City
POLSCI 4043: Policy Analysis, Assessment and Practical Wisdom
POLSCI 495: Research Design and Methods
SOC 3350: Poverty and the New American City
SOC 4810: Global Structures and Problems
* Students should request permission from the instructor to enroll in these courses.
** Courses MGT 402 and MGT 460M are only 1.5 credits; if you only take one, another elective course will be required to fulfill the 49 credit hours required for the Major.
Environmental Humanities (HA)
AFAS 288: Free the Land: Black Histories of Environmental Racism
AFAS 3075: Recipes for Respect: Black Foodways in the United States
AFAS 474: Black Geographies: Space, Place and Ecologies of Power
ART 318P: Photography: Art Practice (Art, Environment, Culture & Image)
COMPLIT 4111: Pastoral Literature
DRAMA 4081: Theatre for Social Change
ENST 315: Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of the Nuclear Era
HIST 3194: Environment and Empire
IPH 312: Introduction to Digital Humanities
IPH 431: Statistics for Humanities Scholars
LAND 530F: Special Topics: Foodscapes: Art Food Space Activism
PHIL 235F: Environmental Ethics
WRITING 309: Writing the Natural World
Natural Science (NS)
ANTHRO 3053: Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies
ANTHRO 3660: Primate Ecology, Biology, and Behavior
ANTHRO 3662: Primate Conservation Biology
ANTHRO 4285: Environmental Archaeology
ANTHRO 4803: Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis
BIOL 3171: Biology for Climate Change Solutions
BIOL 3220: Woody Plants of Missouri
BIOL 3221: Research and Public Education in the Arboretum
BIOL 343: Plants, People, and the Environment
BIOL 373W: Laboratory on the Evolution of Animal Behavior
BIOL 381: Introduction to Ecology
BIOL 3900: Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
BIOL 4193: Experimental Ecology Laboratory
ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science
ENST 365: Applied Conservation Biology
ENST 483: Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology
EPSC 219: Energy and the Environment
EPSC 2xx/3xx: Artic Science (SP24)
EPSC 336: Mineral and Rocks in the Environment (no longer offered)
EPSC 340: Minerals, Rocks, Resources and the Environment
EPSC 386: Earth’s Climate System
EPSC 413: Introduction to Soil Science
Interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis Minor
- Deep training: Courses in analysis, critical thinking, and problem-solving
- Accessible: Most courses do not have pre-requisites*
- Application and problem solving: Opportunities for interdisciplinary, collaborative, project-based, and community-engaged learning
- Pairs well with disciplinary-based majors to provide interdisciplinary, applied experiences that can be leveraged for career and job preparation
This minor was developed to prepare students to tackle real-world environmental challenges by providing more robust opportunities for interdisciplinary knowledge and skill development. The minor is structured to provide students with opportunities to strengthen their critical analysis and problem-solving skills through participation in team-based, experiential, often community-engaged learning around “wicked” real-world problems. Most courses do not have pre-requisites.* Courses that appear as options in multiple sections may only be taken for credit toward one section of the minor.
Required Courses (Choose 3)
One Interdisciplinary Environmental Capstone Course
One Advanced Elective in Natural Science
- BIOL 3900: Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 365: Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 481: Advanced GIS *
- EPSc 386: The Earth's Climate System
- EPSC 454: Exploration and Environmental Geophysics *
*Pre-reqs: ENST 481 (ENST 380); EPSC 454 (EPSC 201)
One Advanced Elective in Social Science and Humanities
- ECON 451: Environmental Policy
- ENST 310: Ecological Economics
- ENST 315: Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of the Nuclear Era
- ENST 316: Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel and the Middle East
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics
- ENST 346: Environmental Justice
- ENST 347: Sustainable Cities
- ENST 415W: Writing Home
- ENST 461: Introduction to Environmental Law
- HIST 3194: Environment and Empire
*Pre-reqs: ECON 451 (ECON 1011); ENST 481 (ENST 380)
Approved for students who entered Spring 2020 or before
- HIST 3068: Human History of Climate Change
- POL SCI 340: Topics in Politics: Environmental Justice
- POL SCI 3752: Topics in American Politics: Globalization, Urbanization, & the Environment
- POL SCI 4043: Public Policy Analysis Assessment and Practical Wisdom
EnSt Minor (available to students who enter WU in FL21 and beyond)
- Exposure: Includes introductory-level courses
- Accessible: because it includes introductory courses
- Flexible: Wide degree of choice in elective categories
- Pairs easily with many majors to provide interdisciplinary exposure
- Students must have at least 9 units of 300+ coursework unique to this minor.
Required core introductory courses (choose two classes)
- BIOL 2950: Introduction to Environmental Biology
- ENST 101: Earth's Future: Causes and Consequences of Global Climate Change
- ENST 102: To Sustainability and Beyond: People, Planet, Prosperity
- ENST 252: Sustainability in Business
- ENST 110: Environmental Issues
- ENST 111: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone
- ENST 215: Introduction to Environmental Humanities
- ENST 250: One Health
- EPSC 201: Earth & the Environment (no longer offered)
- EPSC 202: Intro to Earth, Env., and Planetary Science
- EPSC 219: Energy and the Environment
- POLSCI 2010: Introduction to Environmental Policy
* Students can take EPSC 201 or EPSC 202 or EPSC 219
Electives (choose four classes, one each from a different category)
Analysis and Communication (choose 1)
Analysis and Communication
- ENST 315: Fallout
- ENST 316: Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 350W: Writing skills for environmental Professionals
- ENST 357: Multiparty environmental decision-making
- ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 380: Applications in GIS
- ENST 405: Sustainability Exchange
- ENST 407: RESET: Decarbonizing the Grid
- ENST 415W: Writing Home
- ENST 452: International Climate Negotiation Seminar
- ENST 481: Advanced GIS
- ENST 539: Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
Environmental Humanities (choose 1)
Environmental Humanities
- A46 209: Design Process
- AFAS 288: Free the Land: Black Histories of Environmental Racism
- AFAS 3075: Recipes for Respect: Black Foodways in the US
- AFAS 474: Black Geographies: Space, Place and Ecologies of Power
- ART 318P: Photography: Art Practice (Art, Environment, Culture & Image)
- COMPLIT 4111: Pastoral Literature
- DRAMA 351: Introduction to Playwriting
- DRAMA 4081: Theatre for Social Change
- ENST 315: Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of the Nuclear Era
- ENST 415W: Writing Home
- HIST 2561: Urban American
- HIST 3194: Environment and Empire
- IPH 312: Introduction to Digital Humanities
- IPH 431: Statistics for Humanities Scholars
- LAND 553A: Seeds
- LAND 530F: Special Topics Foodscape: Art Food Space Activism
- PHIL 235F: Environmental Ethics
- WRITING 309: Writing the Natural World
Social Science (choose 1)
- AMCS 299: The Study of Cities and Metropolitan America
- ANTH 3215: Food, Culture and Power
- ANTH 3472: Global Energy and the American Dream
- ANTH 360: Placemaking St. Louis (no longer offered)
- ANTH 3602: Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health and Justice
- ANTH 3608: Caribbean Island Vulnerabilities: Puerto Rico (no longer offered)
- ANTH 361: Culture and Environment
- ANTH 3613: Follow the Thing: Global Commodities & Env (no longer offered)
- ANTH 3618: Urban Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 374: Social Landscape in Global View
- ANTH 379: Meltdown: The Archaeology of Climate Change
- ANTH 3880: Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health and Environment (no longer offered)
- ANTH 428W: Original Research in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH 4215: Anthropology of Food (no longer offered)
- ANTH 4280: Tourism & Sustainability (no longer offered)
- ECON 451: Environmental Policy
- ENST 251: Metropolitan Environment
- ENST 255: Systems Thinking
- ENST 310: Ecological Economics
- ENST 316: Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel and the Middle East (no longer offered)
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics (no longer offered)
- ENST 346: Environmental Justice
- ENST 347: Sustainable Cities
- ENST 461: Environmental Law
- ENST 481: Advanced GIS
- ENST 482: Applications in Geospatial Intelligence
- MGT 401M: Sustainable Devel & Cons Through Entrepreneurial Collaboration
- MGT 402: Ethical Issues in Managerial Decision Making
- MGT 460L: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship - must take both 460L and 460M
- MGT 460M: Social Impact: Planning, Measuring and Building - must take both 460L and 460M
- MPH 5002: Epidemiology
- MPH 5323: TPS: Climate Change and Public Health
- POLSCI 363: Quantitative Political Methodology
- POLSCI 389A: Power, Justice, and the City
- POLSCI 4043: Policy Analysis, Assessment and Practical Wisdom
- POLSCI 495: Research Design and Methods
- SOC 3350: Poverty and the New American City
- SOC 4810: Global Structures and Problems
Natural Science (choose 1)
- ANTH 3053: Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies
- ANTH 3660: Primate Ecology, Biology & Behavior
- ANTH 3662: Primate Conservation Biology
- ANTH 4285: Environmental Archaeology
- ANTH 4803: Advanced GIS Modeling & Landscape Analysis
- BIOL 3171: Climate Change Solutions
- BIOL 3220: Woody Plants of Missouri
- BIOL 3221: Research and Public Education in the Arboretum
- BIOL 343: Plants, People, and the Environment
- BIOL 349: Microbiology
- BIOL 370: Animal Behavior
- BIOL 373W: Laboratory on the Evolution of Animal Behavior
- BIOL 381: Introduction to Ecology
- BIOL 3900: Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- BIOL 419: Community Ecology
- BIOL 4193: Experimental Ecology
- BIOL 4195: Disease Ecology
- ENST 364: Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 365: Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 375: Urban Ecology
- ENST 481: Advanced GIS
- ENST 483: Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology
- EPSC 219: Energy and the Environment
- EPSC 2xx/3xx: Artic Science (SP24)
- EPSC 323: Biogeochemistry
- EPSC 336: Minerals & Rocks in the Environment (no longer offered)
- EPSC 340: Minerals, Rocks, Resources and the Environment
- EPSC 387: Geospatial Science
- EPSC 385: Earth History
- EPSC 386: Earth’s Climate System
- EPSC 407: Remote Sensing
- EPSC 413: Introduction to Soil Science
- EPSC 428: Hydrology
- EPSC 454: Exploration and Environmental Geophysics
- LAND 551A: Landscape Ecology
EnSt Minor (available to students who entered WUSTL prior to FL21)
- Exposure: Includes introductory-level courses
- Accessible: because it includes introductory courses
- Flexible: Wide degree of choice in elective categories
- Pairs easily with many majors to provide interdisciplinary exposure
- Note: if a student has a major and a minor, the upper-level (300+) units for the major and minor must be independent of one another. (The minor must have 12 units independent of any other major.)
Required Courses
- EPSC 201: Earth and Environment *
- EPSC 202: Introduction to Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science *
- BIO 2950: Introduction to Environmental Biology
- PS 2010: Introduction to Environmental Policy
* Students can take EPSC 201 or EPSC 202
In addition to the required introductory courses, students must take at least 9 units of elective courses at the 300 level or above, one from each of the three categories below. Students may bring up to six units total from a Washington University approved summer or semester program when equivalent to electives below. The minor must have 12 units independent of any other major. Students who are majors in Environmental Biology or Environmental Earth Science may substitute the advanced science course required by taking an additional advanced political science, law, ethics or anthropology course. Students who are majors in Environmental Policy may substitute the advanced political science or law course required by taking an additional advanced science course.
One Advanced Science Course
- BIOL 3220: Wood Plants of Missouri
- BIOL 370: Animal Behavior
- BIOL 381: Intro to Ecology
- BIOL 3900: Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- ENST 364: Field Methods For Environmental Science
- ENST 365: Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 375: Urban Ecology
- ENST 380: Applications in GIS
- ENST 481: Advanced GIS
- EPSC 323: Biogeochemistry
- EPSC 386: The Earth's Climate System
- EPSC 401: Earth Systems Science
- EPSC 413: Introduction to Soil Science
One Advanced Political Science or Law Course
- ENST 310: Ecological Economics
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel and the Middle East
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics
- ENST 346: Environmental Justice
- ENST 347: Sustainable Cities
- ENST 350W: Writing skills for environmental professionals
- ENST 357: Multiparty environmental decision-making
- ENST 461: Introduction to Environmental Law
- ENST 539: Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- PS 363: Quantitative Political Methodology
- PS 389A: Power, Justice, and the City
- PS 4043: Policy Evaluation
- PS 495: Research Design and Methods
One Advanced Anthropology or Ethics Course
- ANTH 3053: Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies
- ANTH 3472: Global Energy and the American Dream
- ANTH 3608: Caribbean Island Vulnerability: Puerto Rico
- ANTH 361: Culture and Environment
- ANTH 3613: Follow the Thing: Global Commodities & Environment
- ANTH 3615: Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH 4215: Anthropology of Food
- ENST 315: Fallout: Texts & Narratives of the Nuclear Era
- ENST 316: Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 405: Sustainability Exchange: Community and University Practicums
- HISTORY 3194: Environment and Empire
Other pre-approved substitutions
Courses that are offered less frequently or have more pre-requisites but that are pre-approved substitutions for these requirement categories include:
Advanced science:
- EPSC 429: Environmental Hydrogeology
- EPSC 444: Environmental Geochemistry
- EPSC 484: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Advance political science or law:
- ECON 451: Environmental Policy
- ENST 407: RESET: Decarbonizing the Grid
- ENST 452: International Climate Negotiation Seminar
Advanced anthropology or ethics: