Environmental Social Sciences

Catalog description

Overview of social science approaches to environmental issues, with problem-based and topical approaches to the study of interactions between society and the environment. This course teaches students to integrate concepts and the qualitative and quantitative methods of the social sciences (primarily anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, political science, and sociology) in interdisciplinary analyses of environmental issues. Satisfies a requirement for the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.