Environmental Studies (BA)
Vassar College
Date Posted: Jan. 14, 2019
Submitted by: Claire Pope
Sustainability Topic:
Curriculum
Content Type:
Academic Programs
Discipline:
Environmental Studies & Sciences
Tags:
environmental studies
Program Type: Baccalaureate degree
Description
Environmental Studies is a multidisciplinary program that involves the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities. It explores the relationships between people and the totality of their environments—natural, built, and social. As part of that exploration, environmental studies concerns itself with the description and analysis of natural systems; with interspecies and species-environment relationships and the institutions, policies and laws that affect those relationships; with aesthetic portrayals of nature and how these portrayals affect human perceptions and behavior toward it; and with ethical issues raised by the human presence in the environment.