bachelors-environmental-sustainability

Requirements and Learning Outcomes

Earn your UBalt degree by majoring in Environmental Sustainability.

Degree Requirements

  • These requirements apply to students entering this program in fall 2021 and thereafter. 
    Students who enrolled earlier should consult the catalog in effect at the time they enrolled.
  • Read the course descriptions.

Environmental Sustainability Program Requirements 
(52 credits)

Note that 17 credits of the core Environmental Sustainability program requirements can be satisfied by General Education requirements. An asterisk (*) indicates that course satisfies a General Education requirement.

General Education requirements for all new students entering UBalt in fall 2022 and after.

Biological Science course (4 credits)

  • BIOL 121 Fundamentals of Biology (4)*

Environmental Science (24 credits)

  • ENVS 201 Environmental Sustainability (3)*
  • ENVS 221 Science of the Environment (4)*
  • ENVS 285 Environmental Chemistry (4)
  • ENVS 300 Greater Baltimore Urban Ecosystems: Field Investigations (4)
  • ENVS 375 Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology in Society (4)
  • ENVS 420 Research Seminar in Environmental Science (2)
  • ENVS 490 Special Projects in Environmental Sciences (3)

Social Science, Ethics, and Public Policy courses (15 credits)

  • ANTH 222 Human Environmental Adaptations (3)
  • PHIL 280 Environmental Ethics (3)*
  • PPIA 480 Environmental Politics and Policy (3)
  • PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology (3)*
  • PSYC 375 Environmental Psychology (3)

Major Electives (9 credits)

Choose three 3-credit courses (two must be from 300+ level courses).

Note: Any course on this list may be taken as a general elective as well.

Government, Policy, and International Affairs

  • PPIA 210 Introduction to International Affairs 
  • PPIA 315 Public Policy Analysis (3)
  • PPIA 322 Bureaucracy and Public Policy (3)
  • PPIA 324 American Public Policy (3)
  • PPIA 348 Legislative Process (3)
  • PPIA 425 Administrative Law and Processes (3)
  • PPIA 481 Globalization (3)

Law and Philosophy

  • HIST 340 American Legal History (3)
  • JPLA 200 Introduction to Jurisprudence (3)
  • LEST 401 Legal Foundations (3)
  • LEST 402 Legal Research and Analysis (3)
  • PHIL 250 Social and Political Philosophy (3)
  • PHIL 490 Theories of Justice (3)
  • PHIL 496 International Law and Morality (3)
  • PHIL 497 Special Topics in Philosophy (3)

Business and Economics

  • ECON 200 The economic way of thinking (3)*
  • ECON 409 International Economics (3)
  • ENTR 101 Imagination, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (3)* 
  • ENTR 300 The Entrepreneurial Experience (3)
  • MGMT 101 Business in a Changing World (3)*
  • MKTG 301 Marketing Management (3)

Additional Courses

  • ANTH 110 Cultural Anthropology (3)*
  • ANTH 410 Cultural Resource Management (3)
  • ANTH 488 Special topics in Anthropology (3)
  • ENVS 175 Ecology (3)*
  • ENVS 310 Special topics in environmental science (3)
  • ENVS 485 Internship in Environmental Sustainability (3)
  • PHSC 101 Earth in Focus (3)*
  • SOCI 303 Urban Sociology (3)
  • IDIS 101 First Year Seminar: Introduction to University Learning (freshmen only; transfer students replace this with a different elective)

Complete as many courses as necessary from any discipline to fulfill your 120-credit requirement to graduate.

 

Meet the UBalt Information Literacy graduation requirement by successfully completing one of the following options:

  • INFO 110 Introduction to Information Literacy 

Assurance of Learning

ASSURANCE OF LEARNING: B.A. IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Mission Statement

The Environmental Sustainability program focuses on the interrelationships between human beings and their environments. Exposed to a broad interdisciplinary curriculum, students concentrate either on physical/biological environment or on the cultural environment, performing activities such as field, air, and water quality assessments; molecular biological analyses; and artifact studies. We assist the University of Baltimore in its mission to find solutions to real-world problems and future challenges facing urban communities. Our graduates are prepared to work in the Baltimore area, and in communities throughout the world, in laboratory, field, and office settings, for government, private firms, and nonprofit organizations.

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes

Upon graduating from the B.A. in Environmental Sustainability program, students will be able to:

Discuss the fundamental terms and concepts of the discipline of environment science.

Employ the important laboratory, field, and analytical techniques and equipment, of the discipline of environmental science.

Relate scientific research findings in written and oral forms of communication.

Characterize human-environmental interactions as viewed from geographical, ecological, anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.