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Dec 04, 2024
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2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Environmental Studies Major
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Environmental Studies at Ohio Wesleyan is a broad, cross-disciplinary approach to the environment, encompassing the natural and social sciences, arts, and humanities within the context of the liberal arts. Environmental Studies at Ohio Wesleyan consists of nearly 50 courses taught by more than 20 faculty throughout the university. Program strengths include sustainability, food studies, and climate studies. Students interested in majoring in Environmental Studies are urged to meet with the Director of Environmental Studies at their earliest convenience.
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Learning Objectives
• Students will be able to explain how a wide range of interdisciplinary factors (social sciences, natural sciences and humanities) contribute to environmental issues. They will also be able to explain how environmental factors connect to social and political concerns, including cultural conflicts, the built environment, ethical issues, human health, economic issues, poverty, and war.
• Students will develop skills in detecting and conceptualizing complex connections in real-world environmental issues based on their experiences with engaged projects. For example, the role of natural and social science perspectives, as well as humanities (such as ethics), methodologies, politics, and interpersonal relations. This implies a capacity to engage in real-world problem solving.
• Students will be able to connect global environmental concerns to local places and communities and address environmental problems in a global context and from diverse cultural and geographic perspectives.
• Students will gain depth in an environmental issue by choosing a track (sustainability, food, or climate studies). Within this track they will draw on practical experience from internships and projects to reflect critically on received theories.
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