Environmental Studies Minor
Mount Holyoke College
Description
The Environmental Studies department offers six concentrations that allow students to: focus on the science and policy behind conserving biodiversity and ecosystem function; examine the structure and function of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; deepen their understanding of the relationship between global environmental issues and human well-being around the world; focus on the study of the political, economic, historical, and cultural forces that shape environmental politics; study the geology associated with environmental studies issues; connect the living world to the physical processes that shape the Earth and produced the geological record; and finally, study the effects of shifting cultural conceptions of nature on environmental change, how environments affect human communities and how environments are shaped through cultural and historical change.