Liberal Arts Concentrations
EST - Environmental Studies
Concentration Advisor: Richard Shearman (01-3236, rlsgsh@rit.edu)This concentration will include an examination of some of the basic environmental problems we face, how environmental resource depletion and energy issues are related, and what kind of an environmental ethic or environmental values we have today and have had in the past. It will also explore the economics, legislative and regulatory framework within which most environmental decisions have made. Since most of the technological areas which are supplying careers for RIT graduates have significant environmental implications associated with them, it is essential that students have an understanding of, and a well thought out value orientation about such environmental consequences.
Choose three of the following:
0507-464 Environmental Disasters in American History
0508-443 Face of the Land
0508-460 Environment & Society
0508-463 Great Lakes I
0508-464 Great Lakes II
0508-482 Energy & the Environment
0508-483 Environmental Values
0508-484 Environmental Policy
0508-487 Special Topics: (Topic will vary)
0508-488 History of Ecology & Environmentalism
0508-489 History of the Environmental Sciences
0508-490 Biodiversity and Society
0508-491 Sustainable Communities
0508-500 Science, Technology and Society Classics
0508-520 Historical Perspectives on Science and Technology Seminar (Prerequisite: any two of the History of Science or Technology courses approved by the department)
0508-530 Seminar in Science, Technology, and the Environment
0508-540 Science & Technology Policy Seminar (Prerequisite: 0508-441, 0508-484, or 0521-400)
0508-570 Environmental Studies Seminar (Prerequisite: any two Environmental Science electives)
0511-481 Environmental Economics (Prerequisites: 0511-211)
0521-451 Energy Policy
