Bachelor of Arts in Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Food Systems and Community

This emphasis explores complex relationships associated with food, including demands on the global ecosystem, health, and well-being of diverse communities, and the ways that bioregionalism can build more resilient populations. Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ENVST) is a STEM interdisciplinary program that offers a major with several emphases to focus your study, as well as a minor. The curriculum explores ecological systems and the impact of human-environment interactions from the perspectives of the natural sciences, the social and health sciences, and the humanities. The U's program strives to foster an understanding the multi-faceted issues of the environment and sustainability and finding solutions through systemic analysis, peer learning, and community engagement, social responsibility, leadership, and having a science-based focus on solutions and integrated problem solving.
This emphasis explores complex relationships associated with food, including demands on the global ecosystem, health, and well-being of diverse communities, and the ways that bioregionalism can build more resilient populations.

Studying ENVST will prepare you for careers in government (such as the Bureau of Land Management or as a Watershed Scientist), business (as an environmental consultant or sustainability director), education, urban planning or farming, nonprofit (as a program manager), and activism (as a lobbyist against environmental degradation). Graduates of the program have found work as policy makers, consultants, botanists, renewability coordinators, and environmental journalists. If you want to go to graduate school, programs can include fields of environmental and other sciences, business administration, public health, urban planning and law.

GPA-3.0
High school/secondary school transcripts and any post-secondary transcripts
Copy of your passport
ACT English score of 18 or higher
SAT Reading score of 27 or higher
IELTS 6.5 or higher
TOEFL IBT 80 or higher
Duolingo 105 or higher