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环境、社会, and Sustainability Department
Contribute to the Global Health of People and the Environment
Welcome to the 环境、社会 and Sustainability Department. Join us for interactive classes where you’ll learn how to combat the most pressing issues facing our planet and you’ll prepare for a successful and meaningful career across a wide range of professions.
You’ll understand how physical and natural aspects of the world integrate with the social, 文化, 经济, and political aspects of the world to recognize and redress issues related to environmental racism and climate justice.
Our programs offer a rich integrative experience thanks to a diverse group of faculty trained in a wide range of disciplines, 包括城市规划, 地质, 天文学, 地理信息系统, 物理, 工程, human 文化 diversity and environmental justice.
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You can choose from the following majors that represent the spectrum of science and policy, 包括:
- 环境科学 – Focus on how science can improve the natural world. This major offers concentrations in 环境科学与政策, 地球与行星系统, and Secondary Education in 地球与行星系统.
- Environmental Studies and Social Justice- Examine the connections between the science and policy aspects of global environmental problems and issues of equity and justice.
- 地理空间与数据分析 – 应用 advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to solve complex problems.
- 前期项目 - This two- or three-year Pre-Engineering program provides pathways to 工程 degrees at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 麻省海事学院, 和伍斯特理工学院.
作为一名毕业生, you will be ready to embark in professional employment in governmental agencies, 私营企业, 非营利组织, 咨询公司.
You will also be prepared to pursue a graduate degree in a specialized 场 including 环境科学, 保护生物学, 资源管理, 环境规划, 环境工程, 环境法律, 及环境教育.
环境、社会, and Sustainability Department
- 生物学
- Chemistry and Food Science Department
- 计算机科学
- 环境、社会, and Sustainability Department
- 数学
- 护理部
- 营养与健康研究
- 学前健康研究课程
- Advancing Early Career AGEP Population
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The mission of the Department of 环境、社会, and Sustainability is to provide students with an integrated learning experience encompassing the major social-environmental problems of our planet. 独特的, we approach such problems-including the climate crisis, 生物多样性丧失, 土地系统利用的变化, and rising social inequality and conflict-through the natural and social sciences as well as considerations of justice and ethics.
The interdisciplinary nature of the department offers students a strong foundation in the physical sciences; broad training in geospatial technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 全球定位系统(GPS), and remote sensing; and environmental policy applications through experiential, 协作, 实验室, 场, 顶石, 以及研讨会学习的机会.
We offer students the opportunity to examine the human-natural relationship at multiple scales: the local and regional explorations of human and natural diversity, the planet-scale impacts of human civilization on the biophysical systems that maintain life on Earth, and Earth as part of the solar system and the universe.
此外, we offer students the ability to integrate physical and natural aspects of the world with the social, 文化, 经济, and political aspects of the world to recognize and redress issues related to environmental racism and climate justice.
Through faculty trained in multiple disciplines, 从城市规划到地质学, from 天文学 to geographical information systems, from 物理 and 工程 to human 文化 diversity and environmental justice, our programs offer a rich integrative experience to students that matches the transdisciplinary nature of the world’s most challenging problems.
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珍妮Melara-Valle, ’23, 环境科学
"I’ve worked alongside my professor to study the impacts of Climate Change off the coast of Maine and earned an internship at Princeton University where I learned from scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
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瑞秋DeFronzo, ’15, EARTH Education Coordinator, Southwick's Zoo
"I love educating the public about wildlife conservation. I've always been passionate about wildlife, and I was able to complete my 顶石 project at FSU on black bear movement in Massachusetts."