Program Offered:

• Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies Program at California State University San Marcos provides a collaborative setting for faculty, students, and community partners to study environmental and land-use issues. The degree provides introductory training in physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, land-use planning, geographic information systems (GIS), environmental policy and law, research methods, and environmental arts and humanities.

The multidisciplinary core of the degree comprises four general areas:

• Life and Physical Sciences provides the scientific background for the major, consisting of courses in biology, chemistry, physics, and ecology.

• Social Sciences and Policy exposes students to institutional and legal frameworks of environmental policy, and to processes by which policy is established.

• Research Methods prepares students with the quantitative tools - GIS, statistics, and research methods ? necessary for applied work in the professional arena, and also for graduate studies.

• Environmental Arts and Humanities encourages students to think critically, ethically, and aesthetically about the environment.