In the twenty-first century, it’s becoming essential to go green. The environmental management major prepares students to engage in the holistic, adaptive management of the health and resilience of the systems at the human-nature interface necessary to support both stewardship of the natural environment and long-term improvement in the human condition.
The major emphasizes the management of social systems at the human-nature interface, and is aimed primarily at students interested in sustainability-focused careers in business, consulting, community economic development, interest group politics, law, public administration, and related fields. Depending on their career goals, students seeking an edge in the sustainability job market or in pursuing a graduate or professional degree in fields such as business administration (M.B.A.), community economic development (M.S.), public administration (M.P.A.), or law (J.D.), may combine the environmental management major with a minor in a related field, such as business, international business, economics, finance, operations and project management, organizational leadership, political science, or sociology, or with a certificate in pre-law.
SNHU is a great setting in which to obtain this new knowledge, as sustainability is part of our mission. SNHU is the first carbon-neutral campus in New Hampshire and one of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s top national Green Power Challenge partners. Plus, our new academic center and dining hall were built with sustainability in mind.
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B.A./B.S. Core
School of Arts and Science Course Requirements
Required Courses
GEO 200 World Geography
ENV 219 Environmental Issues
BIO 315 Ecological Principles and Field Methods
PHL 363 Environmental Ethics
SOC 318 Sustainable Communities
ENV 319 U.S. Environmental Law and Politics
ENV 322 Environment and Development
ENV 325 Industrial Ecology
SCS 224 Research Methods*
MAT 240 Applied Statistics*
SCS 444 Capstone Colloquium*
Select nine credits from the following:
ENV 305 Global Climate Change
ENV 329 International Environmental Law and Negotiation
ENV 349 Comparative Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
ENV 404 Environmental Sustainability Field Experience I
ENV 405 Environmental Sustainability Field Experience II
ENV 410A Semester in Washington, D.C.: Environmental Policy Field Experience**
ENV 410B Semester in Washington, D.C.: Environmental Studies Seminar **
*Taken as part of the B.A./B.S. Core.
**Students who spend a semester in Washington, D.C. count nine of the fifteen credits awarded for ENV 410A and ENV 410B combined toward the requirements of the major, and the rest as free electives.
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