Major in Environmental Analysis
Our Environmental Analysis Major is a flexible, 49-credit major that focuses on developing critical skills and competencies in interdisciplinary environmental problem-solving. It is designed to prepare students to real world environmental problem solving by providing breadth and depth across environmental humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as deep and interdisciplinary training in analysis, problem solving, communication, and community engagement. 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.
- Click here to download a PDF version of the major tracking sheet for Spring 2026.
- Use the Arts & Sciences Course Explorer to find courses by major or minor, day of the week, IQ requirements, and other categories. Note that special topics courses listed here and on the PDF tracking sheet will not show up in Course Explorer.
- BEYOND 1001 Earth's Future: Cause & Consequences of Climate Change**
- BEYOND 1004 Beyond Sustainability: People, Planet, Prosperity*
- BIOL 2150 Introduction to Environmental Biology
- EEPS 2020 Intro to Earth, Env, and Planetary Science
- ENST 1210 People Planet Health
- AND ENST 2230 Research and Practice in Environmental Health*
- ENST 1540 Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone*
- ENST 2220 One Health: Linking Human, Animal, and Environmental Health
- ENST 2310 Introduction to Environmental Humanities
- ENST 2520 Sustainability in Business
- ENST 2530 Metropolitan Environment
- ENST 2620 Conservation Biology
- POLSCI 2000 Introduction to Environmental Policy
**These courses or course sequences for first-year students may apply to this section; students may count up to two toward the major.
- COMPLITTHT 3120 Introduction to Digital Humanities
- DRAMA 2201 Public Speaking: Embodied Communication
- ENST 3310 Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 3320 Fallout
- ENST 3330 Multiparty Environmental Decision Making
- ENST 3340 Writing Skills for Environmental Professionals
- ENST 3600 Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 3710 Applications in GIS
- ENST 4350 Foundations of Research: Building a Lit Review
- ENST 4410 Writing Home
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- SDS 2020 Elementary Probability and Statistics
- OR SDS 3020 Elementary to Intermediate Statistics and Data Analysis
- OR SDS 3030 Statistics for Data Science I
- WRITING 3005 Writing the Natural World
Students may count a 5th course toward their depth electives.
- AFAS 1130 Introduction to Race
- ECON 3840 Economic Realities of the American Dream
- ENST 1540 Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone (first-years only)
- ENST 3540 Environmental Justice (every fall)
- JIMES 2910 Racism and Antiracism
- SOC 2010 The Roots of Ferguson
- SOC 2040 Social Inequality in America
- SOC 2050 Inequality By Design
- SOC 3100 The Social Construction of Race
- SOC 4170 Global Structures and Problems
- SOC 4831 Global Racial Systems
- ENST 4801 Sustainability Exchange
- ENST 4810 RESET: Decarbonizing the Grid
- ENST 4820 International Climate Negotiation Seminar
- ENST 5830 Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- ENST 4998 Senior Thesis Research
Due to the intensity of these project-based classes, students may only take one per semester. Students may count a second capstone course toward the depth electives.
This is a one-credit seminar to be taken during spring of the last semester (or second to last semester for December graduates), 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 4920 ENST Fourth-year Reflection Seminar
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.
- AFAS 4010 Who’s Afraid of Black Marxism? The Crisis of Capitalism and Futures of Solidarity
- ART 3315 Photography: Art Practice (Art, Env, Culture & Image)
- ARTARCH 3961 Art & Ecology
- COMPLITTHT 3120 Introduction to Digital Humanities
- COMPLITTHT 4111 Pastoral Literature
- COMPLITTHT 4310 Statistics for Humanities Scholars: Data Science for the Humanities
- DRAMA 4202 Theatre for Social Change
- ELIT 3113 Topics in Lit: Climate Stories: Literature and the Environment**
- ELIT 3113 Topics in Lit: River, Marsh, Coast - American Literature and the Environment**
- ENST 3034 Environmental Modernism
- ENST 3320 Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of Nuclear Era
- ENST 3410 Native American Storytelling for Healthy Land Practice
- ENST 4410 Writing Home
- HIST 2360 Urban America
- HIST 3296 Environment and Empire
- HIST 3813 Between Sand and Sea: History, Environment, and Politics in the Arabian Peninsula
- PHIL 2080 Environmental Ethics
- WRITING 3005 Writing the Natural World
- WRITING 3400 Introduction to Playwriting***
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
***Students who take this course should work with the professor to choose an environmental or sustainability topic for their project work.
- AFAS 3620 Environmental Justice & Black Lives: Decolonizing the Land
- AMCS 2270 Topics in Native American Studies: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
- ANTH 3102 Topics: Sustainability in Extractive Communities
- ANTH 3215 Food, Culture, and Power
- ANTH 3472 Global Energy and the American Dream
- ANTH 3602 Env Inequal: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
- ANTH 3610 Culture and Environment
- ANTH 4281 Ecological Anthropology
- ECON 3350 Environmental Policy
- ENST 2510 Systems Thinking
- ENST 3060 Community-based Conservation in Madagascar
- ENST 3310 Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 3520 Ecological Economics
- ENST 3530 Sustainable Cities
- ENST 3535 Sustainable Transportation
- ENST 3540 Environmental Justice
- ENST 4005 Topics in Env Studies: Political Economy of Climate Policy**
- ENST 4005 Topics in Env Studies: The Politics of Climate Adaptation**
- ENST 4050 The Social and Public Policy of St. Louis
- ENST 4350 Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review
- ENST 4510 Environmental Law
- ENST 4527 IPCC: Governance, Policy and Science
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- ENST 4720 Applications in Geospatial Intelligence
- MGT 4510 Bus & Gov: Understanding and Influencing the Regulatory Environment
- MGT 4603 Intro to Social Entrepreneurship
- POLSCI 3171 Politics of Environmental Regulation
- POLSCI 3328 Energy Politics
- POLSCI 3410 Topics in Politics: Environmental Justice
- POLSCI 3630 Quantitative Political Methodology
- POLSCI 3760 Globalization, Urbanization and the Environment
- POLSCI 3890 Power, Justice, and the City
- POLSCI 4043 Policy Analysis, Assessment and Practical Wisdom
- POLSCI 4905 Research Design and Methods
- PUBHLTHSOC 3010 Topics in PHS: Climate for All: A Solutions-Based Investigation of the Climate Crisis and PH Impact**
- PUBHLTHSOC 3280 Anthropology of Infectious Disease
- PUBHLTHSOC 3700 Introduction to Epidemiology
- PUBHLTHSOC 4010 Topics in PHS: Animals, Insects, and the Making of Modern Public Health**
- PUBHLTHSOC 4010 Topics in PHS: Epidemics, Pandemics, and Society**
- PUBHLTHSOC 4011 Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
- SOC 3170 Poverty and the New American City
- SOC 4170 Global Structures and Problems
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
- ANTH 3660 Primate Ecology, Biology and Behavior
- ANTH 3662 Primate Conservation Biology
- ANTH 4285 Environmental Archaeology
- BIOL 2970 Principles of Biology II
- BIOL 3171 Biology for Climate Change Solutions
- BIOL 3220 Woody Plants of Missouri
- BIOL 3430 Plants, People, and the Environment
- BIOL 3501 Evolution
- BIOL 3700 Animal Behavior
- BIOL 3810 Introduction to Ecology
- BIOL 3900 Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- BIOL 4193 Experimental Ecology Laboratory
- BIOL 4195 Disease Ecology
- BIOL 4196 Community Ecology
- EEPS 3150 Environmental Impacts of Human Energy Use
- EEPS 3173 Introduction to Soil Science
- EEPS 3230 Biogeochemistry
- EEPS 3420 Environmental Systems
- EEPS 3853 Earth History
- EEPS 3860 The Earth's Climate System
- EEPS 3873 Geospatial Science
- EEPS 4074 Remote Sensing (odd SP)
- ENST 3600 Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 3610 Urban Ecology
- ENST 3620 Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 3630 Arctic Climate System
- ENST 4000 Topics in Env Sci: Earth in Argument: Debating Environmental Controversies**
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- ENST 4730 Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology
- LANDARCH 5330 Landscape Ecology
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
The following courses are no longer offered or automatically included in the major or minor. They may count toward the section indicated if you have previously taken them.
Analysis & Communication
- ANTH 428W: Original Research in Environmental Anthropology
- DRAMA 4202: Theater for Social Change
Social Identity
- EDUC 4620: Neighborhoods, Schools, and Social Inequity
Humanities & Arts Electives
- AFAS 2160: Free the Land
- AFAS 3075: Recipes for Respect
- AFAS 474: Black Geographies: Space, Place and Ecologies of Power
- ARCH 2090: Design Process
- LAND 5424: Seeds
Social Science Electives
- ANTH 360: Placemaking St. Louis
- ANTH 3608: Caribbean Island Vulnerabilities: Puerto Rico
- ANTH 3613: Follow the Thing: Global Commodities & Env
- ANTH 3618: Urban Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 3740: Social Landscapes in Global View
- ANTH 3796: Meltdown: Archaeology of Climate Change
- ANTH 3880: Multispecies Worlds: Animals, GH, and Env
- ANTH 4280: Tourism & Sustainability
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel & Middle East
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics
- MPH 5323: Climate Change and Public Health
- MPH: 5002 Epidemiology
- URST 2000: The study of Cities and Metropolitan America
Natural Science & Math Electives
- ANTH 3053: Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies
- ANTH 4803: Advanced GIS Modeling & Landscape Analysis
- BIOL 3221: Research and Public Education in the Arboretum
- BIOL 3494: Microbes and the Environment
- BIOL 3730: Laboratory on the Evolution of Animal Behavior
- EEPS 219: Energy and the Environment
- EEPS 336: Minerals, & Rocks in the Environment
- EEPS 3400: Minerals, Rocks, and Resources in the Environment
- EEPS 4094: Surface Processes
- EEPS 4284: Hydrology
- EEPS 4425: Aqueous Geochemistry
- EEPS 4544: Exploration and Env Geophysics
- EEPS 4864: Paleoclimatology
Minor in Environmental Studies
The Environmental Studies Minor is a flexible, 18-credit program of study that offers exposure to interdisciplinary environmental challenges and problem solving. It is highly accessible because it includes a choice of introductory level courses and is flexible because there is a wide degree of choice in elective categories, including courses in analysis and communication. As for all ArtSci minors, students must have at least 9 units of 300+ coursework unique to this minor.
- Click here to download a PDF version of the minor tracking sheet for Spring 2026.
- Use the Arts & Sciences Course Explorer to find courses by major or minor, day of the week, IQ requirements, and other categories. Note that special topics courses listed here and on the PDF tracking sheet will not show up in Course Explorer.
- BEYOND 1001 Earth's Future: Cause & Consequences of Climate Change**
- BEYOND 1004 Beyond Sustainability: People, Planet, Prosperity*
- BIOL 2150 Introduction to Environmental Biology
- EEPS 2020 Intro to Earth, Env, and Planetary Science
- ENST 1540 Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone*
- ENST 2220 One Health: Linking Human, Animal, and Environmental Health
- ENST 2310 Introduction to Environmental Humanities
- ENST 2520 Sustainability in Business
- ENST 2530 Metropolitan Environment
- ENST 2620 Conservation Biology
- POLSCI 2000 Introduction to Environmental Policy
**These courses or course sequences for first-year students may apply to this section; students may count up to two toward the major.
- ENST 3310 Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 3320 Fallout
- ENST 3330 Multiparty Environmental Decision Making
- ENST 3340 Writing Skills for Environmental Professionals
- ENST 3600 Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 3710 Applications in GIS
- ENST 4350 Foundations of Research: Building a Lit Review
- ENST 4410 Writing Home
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- ENST 4801: Sustainability Exchange
- ENST 4810: RESET: Decarbonizing the Grid
- ENST 4820: International Climate Negotiation Seminar
- ENST 5830: Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- AFAS 4010 Who’s Afraid of Black Marxism? The Crisis of Capitalism and Futures of Solidarity
- ART 3315 Photography: Art Practice (Art, Env, Culture & Image)
- ARTARCH 3961 Art & Ecology
- COMPLITTHT 3120 Introduction to Digital Humanities
- COMPLITTHT 4111 Pastoral Literature
- COMPLITTHT 4310 Statistics for Humanities Scholars: Data Science for the Humanities
- DRAMA 4202 Theatre for Social Change
- ELIT 3113 Topics in Lit: Climate Stories: Literature and the Environment**
- ELIT 3113 Topics in Lit: River, Marsh, Coast - American Literature and the Environment**
- ENST 3034 Environmental Modernism
- ENST 3320 Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of Nuclear Era
- ENST 3410 Native American Storytelling for Healthy Land Practice
- ENST 4410 Writing Home
- HIST 2360 Urban America
- HIST 3296 Environment and Empire
- HIST 3813 Between Sand and Sea: History, Environment, and Politics in the Arabian Peninsula
- PHIL 2080 Environmental Ethics
- WRITING 3005 Writing the Natural World
- WRITING 3400 Introduction to Playwriting***
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
***Students who take this course should work with the professor to choose an environmental or sustainability topic for their project work.
- AFAS 3620 Environmental Justice & Black Lives: Decolonizing the Land
- AMCS 2270 Topics in Native American Studies: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies
- ANTH 3102 Topics: Sustainability in Extractive Communities
- ANTH 3215 Food, Culture, and Power
- ANTH 3472 Global Energy and the American Dream
- ANTH 3602 Env Inequal: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
- ANTH 3610 Culture and Environment
- ANTH 4281 Ecological Anthropology
- ECON 3350 Environmental Policy
- ENST 2510 Systems Thinking
- ENST 3060 Community-based Conservation in Madagascar
- ENST 3310 Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 3520 Ecological Economics
- ENST 3530 Sustainable Cities
- ENST 3535 Sustainable Transportation
- ENST 3540 Environmental Justice
- ENST 4005 Topics in Env Studies: Political Economy of Climate Policy**
- ENST 4005 Topics in Env Studies: The Politics of Climate Adaptation**
- ENST 4050 The Social and Public Policy of St. Louis
- ENST 4350 Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review
- ENST 4510 Environmental Law
- ENST 4527 IPCC: Governance, Policy and Science
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- ENST 4720 Applications in Geospatial Intelligence
- MGT 4510 Bus & Gov: Understanding and Influencing the Regulatory Environment
- MGT 4603 Intro to Social Entrepreneurship
- POLSCI 3171 Politics of Environmental Regulation
- POLSCI 3328 Energy Politics
- POLSCI 3410 Topics in Politics: Environmental Justice
- POLSCI 3630 Quantitative Political Methodology
- POLSCI 3760 Globalization, Urbanization and the Environment
- POLSCI 3890 Power, Justice, and the City
- POLSCI 4043 Policy Analysis, Assessment and Practical Wisdom
- POLSCI 4905 Research Design and Methods
- PUBHLTHSOC 3010 Topics in PHS: Climate for All: A Solutions-Based Investigation of the Climate Crisis and PH Impact**
- PUBHLTHSOC 3280 Anthropology of Infectious Disease
- PUBHLTHSOC 3700 Introduction to Epidemiology
- PUBHLTHSOC 4010 Topics in PHS: Animals, Insects, and the Making of Modern Public Health**
- PUBHLTHSOC 4010 Topics in PHS: Epidemics, Pandemics, and Society**
- PUBHLTHSOC 4011 Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
- SOC 3170 Poverty and the New American City
- SOC 4170 Global Structures and Problems
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
- ANTH 3660 Primate Ecology, Biology and Behavior
- ANTH 3662 Primate Conservation Biology
- ANTH 4285 Environmental Archaeology
- BIOL 2970 Principles of Biology II
- BIOL 3171 Biology for Climate Change Solutions
- BIOL 3220 Woody Plants of Missouri
- BIOL 3430 Plants, People, and the Environment
- BIOL 3501 Evolution
- BIOL 3700 Animal Behavior
- BIOL 3810 Introduction to Ecology
- BIOL 3900 Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- BIOL 4193 Experimental Ecology Laboratory
- BIOL 4195 Disease Ecology
- BIOL 4196 Community Ecology
- EEPS 3150 Environmental Impacts of Human Energy Use
- EEPS 3173 Introduction to Soil Science
- EEPS 3230 Biogeochemistry
- EEPS 3420 Environmental Systems
- EEPS 3853 Earth History
- EEPS 3860 The Earth's Climate System
- EEPS 3873 Geospatial Science
- EEPS 4074 Remote Sensing (odd SP)
- ENST 3600 Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 3610 Urban Ecology
- ENST 3620 Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 3630 Arctic Climate System
- ENST 4000 Topics in Env Sci: Earth in Argument: Debating Environmental Controversies**
- ENST 4710 Advanced GIS
- ENST 4730 Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology
- LANDARCH 5330 Landscape Ecology
**This course will require an Academic Requirements Course Override Request after you receive a passing grade in the course. Ask your faculty advisor to initiate this request.
The following courses are no longer offered or automatically included in the major or minor. They may count toward the section indicated if you have previously taken them.
Humanities & Arts Electives
- AFAS 2160: Free the Land
- AFAS 3075: Recipes for Respect
- AFAS 474: Black Geographies: Space, Place and Ecologies of Power
- ARCH 2090: Design Process
- LAND 5424: Seeds
Social Science Electives
- ANTH 360: Placemaking St. Louis
- ANTH 3608: Caribbean Island Vulnerabilities: Puerto Rico
- ANTH 3613: Follow the Thing: Global Commodities & Env
- ANTH 3618: Urban Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 3740: Social Landscapes in Global View
- ANTH 3796: Meltdown: Archaeology of Climate Change
- ANTH 3880: Multispecies Worlds: Animals, GH, and Env
- ANTH 4280: Tourism & Sustainability
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel & Middle East
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics
- MPH 5323: Climate Change and Public Health
- MPH: 5002 Epidemiology
- URST 2000: The study of Cities and Metropolitan America
Natural Science & Math Electives
- ANTH 3053: Nomadic Strategies and Extreme Ecologies
- ANTH 4803: Advanced GIS Modeling & Landscape Analysis
- BIOL 3221: Research and Public Education in the Arboretum
- BIOL 3494: Microbes and the Environment
- BIOL 3730: Laboratory on the Evolution of Animal Behavior
- EEPS 219: Energy and the Environment
- EEPS 336: Minerals, & Rocks in the Environment
- EEPS 3400: Minerals, Rocks, and Resources in the Environment
- EEPS 4094: Surface Processes
- EEPS 4284: Hydrology
- EEPS 4425: Aqueous Geochemistry
- EEPS 4544: Exploration and Env Geophysics
- EEPS 4864: Paleoclimatology
Minor in Interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis (no longer available to declare)
- 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
- Audience: Pairs well with disciplinary-based majors to provide interdisciplinary, applied experiences that can be leveraged for career and job preparation
Our Environmental Analysis Minor is an 18-credit minor that includes deep training in analysis, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The coursework includes opportunities for interdisciplinary, collaborative, project-based, and community-engaged learning. It is designed to pair well with disciplinary-based majors to provide interdisciplinary, applied experiences that can be leveraged for career and job preparation. 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.
- BIOL 3900: Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
- ENST 3600: Field Methods for Environmental Science
- ENST 3620: Applied Conservation Biology
- ENST 4710: Advanced GIS *
- EPSc 3860: The Earth's Climate System
- EPSC 4544: Exploration and Environmental Geophysics *
*Pre-reqs: ENST 481 (ENST 380); EPSC 454 (EPSC 201)
- ECON 4511: Environmental Policy
- ENST 3310: Beyond the Evidence
- ENST 3320: Fallout: Analyzing Texts and Narratives of the Nuclear Era
- ENST 3410: Native American Storytelling - Healthy Land Practice
- ENST 3520: Ecological Economics
- ENST 3530: Sustainable Cities
- ENST 3540: Environmental Justice
- ENST 4510: Introduction to Environmental Law
- ENST 4410: Writing Home
- HIST 3194: Environment and Empire
- ENST 340: Energy Governance in Israel and the Middle East
- ENST 341: International Energy Politics
*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
Thematic concentrations within our courses
While we don't offer formal "tracks" within our majors, students can chart a path through our coursework with an emphasis in a thematic area of their interest. The lists of courses below are offered to help students and major advisors identify courses we recommend in the various themes. In general we recommend students take courses in these order:
- 1st year: 1000 and 2000 level courses
- 2nd year: 2000 and 3000 level courses
- 3rd year: 3000 and 4000 level courses
- 4th year: 3000 and 4000 level courses