BS Environmental and Urban Studies

The major and minor program in Environmental and Urban Studies encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the study of environment, geography, and urbanization grounded in theoretical frameworks and research methods from the social sciences and humanities, complemented by approaches from environmental sciences, urban planning and design, and urban science. The major fosters the interrogation of the limits and possibilities of inherited approaches to the study of society and environment across space and time, and explores new epistemologies, conceptual frameworks, and research methods for the analysis of socio-environmental dynamics, especially in relation to the cascade of environmental emergencies that are reshaping the conditions for social existence across the planet.