Environment and Sustainability (BS)
Cornell University
Description
The interdisciplinary curriculum provides a comprehensive and integrated view of the biological, physical-chemical, ecological, human, and social dimensions of the environment. It’s designed to advance students’ ability to solve real-world environmental problems, environmental policy decisions, resource management actions, biodiversity conservation, and human health. The curriculum helps students to “compare and contrast multiple perspectives on the sustainability of human-environment relationships, including implications for food, land, air, water, energy, climate, and biodiversity,” and “critically evaluate information about how the environment influences human resource use.” As such, graduate students will be able to “formulate approaches to environmental challenges that could help build sustainable human-ecological systems,” and enter the public dialogue using effective communication strategies.