School of Liberal Arts: Environmental Studies
2008-2009 Academic Year
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Office:
201b Alcee Fortier Hall
Phone:
(504) 862-3155
Fax:
(504) 862-8455
Website:
www.tulane.edu/~env_stud/
Program Director
William Balée, Anthropology
Faculty Advisory Committee:
Barbara Hayley, Theatre and Dance
Katharine Jack, Anthropology
Amy Koritz, English
Grant S. McCall, Anthropology
James Mackin, Communication
Christopher B. Rodning, Anthropology
Richard Watts, French and Italian
The major in environmental studies has a credit requirement, one required course,
and a distribution requirement. The major requires students to take at least 30
credits of approved course work and a minimum of ten courses in environmental
studies (EVST) or courses in associated fields listed below. The major must
include the EVST 465 Senior Colloquium in Environmental Studies to be taken in
the spring of the senior year, or spring of the junior year with special permission
from the program director. The major requires students to take one course from
each of the following five topical areas of environmental studies: Distribution and
Conservation of Living Things; Landscapes and Seascapes through Time;
Problems and Potentialities of Built Environments; Environmental Thought,
Practice, and Policy; and Civic Engagement and Local Environments. The
program does not offer a minor in environmental studies.
The Five Topical Areas of Environmental Studies (students must complete one
course from each topical area):
1. Distribution and Conservation of Living Things
EVST 205 Global Change Biology (J. Chambers) (same as EBIO 205)
EVST 208 Conservation of Biological Diversity (T. Sherry) (same as EBIO 204)
EVST 314 Primate Ecology and Behavior (K. Jack) (same as ANTH 314)
EVST 391 Special Topics in Distribution and Conservation of Living Things
(staff)
EVST 404 General Ecology (T. Sherry) (same as EBIO 404)