Who we are in the Environmental Studies Program
The Environmental Studies Program is a small interdisciplinary academic program within the College of Arts & Sciences. We are a team of 7 full-time Teaching Track faculty, 4 PT faculty, and a Tenured Director who is housed in one of our partner departments. We also have 2 current and 1 future faculty members with positions split with a disciplinary home department who contribute 25% or 33% of their teaching effort to environmental teaching and advising with our program. Our two full-time staff members include our Academic & Administrative Coordinator and our Community Engagement Manager. We offer one popular and robust interdisciplinary major and a popular interdisciplinary minor. We currently host one Ampersand Program in Environmental Leadership and will soon host a second Ampersand Program in One-Health. Many of our courses are interdisciplinary, small to medium-size enrollment, and feature active, collaborative, experiential, project-based, or community-engaged learning. We have strong partnerships with Office of Sustainability and Tyson Research Center to support student engagement with internships and research. We offer courses, projects, and paid internships with community partners through our Impact Internship Program and the Sustainability Exchange Capstone course. We have a strong networkw with collaborators in The Center for Environment, Living Earth Collaborative, Center for Humanities, and off-campus organizations, as well as in departments such as Anthropology, Earth, Environment & Planetary Sciences, and Biology. Our students are creative, inquisitive, interdisciplinarily-minded people who are passionate about working collaboratively to solve environmental challenges of today and tomorrow.