This page is to be used as a planning tool. Your degree audit is the official record of degree requirements. Updated August 2022.

Environmental Policy & Planning B.A. and B.S. Requirements

introductory courses, 17-18 s.h.

Complete all the following:

  • ECON:1100 Principles of Microeconomics (4)
  • ENVS:2010 Interdisciplinary Environmental Seminar (1)
  • GEOG:1070 Contemporary Environmental Issues (3)
  • GEOG/BUS/URP:2013 Introduction to Sustainability (3)

Choose one of the following:

  • GEOG:/ANTH/GWSS:1046 People & the Environment: Technology, Culture, and Social Justice (3)
  • ANTH:2261 Human Impacts on the Environment (3)

Choose one of the following:

  • EES/ENVS:1080 Introduction to Environmental Science (3-4)
  • EES/ENVS:1085 Fundamentals of Environmental Science (4)
  • GEOG:1020 The Global Environment (3)
Intermediate courses, 12 s.h.

Choose two of the following:

  • GEOG:3400 Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice (3)
  • GEOG/GHS:3780 U.S. Energy Policy in Global Context (3)
  • HIST:3230 American Environmental History (3)
  • POLI:1400 Introduction to Comparative Politics (3)
  • POLI:3111 American Public Policy (3)

Choose one of the following:

  • ANTH:3103 Environment and Culture (3)
  • GEOG:3300 Sustainable Development & Its Alternatives (3)
  • NAIS:1290 Native American Foods and Foodways (3)

Choose one of the following:

  • CNW:2740 The Art and Craft of Writing about the Environment (3)
  • JMC:1800 Environmental Communication (3)
  • RHET:3560 Public Policy and Persuasion (3)
  • RHET:3700 Advocacy and Sustainability: Crafting Stories of People, Place, and Resilience (3)
Methods courses, choose B.a. or b.s.

FOR THE B.A. (7-8 S.H.)

Complete the following:

  • GEOG:1050 Foundations of GIS (4)

Choose one of the following:

  • GEOG:1065 Introduction to Spatial Analysis: Patterns and Processes (3)
  • STAT/PSQF:1020 Elementary Statistics & Inference (3)
  • STAT:1030 Statistics for Business (4)
  • STAT:2010 Statistical Methods and Computing (3)
  • STAT:2020 Probability and Statistics for Engineering and Physical Sciences (3)
  • STAT/IGPI:3510 Biostatistics (3)
  • PSQF/STAT:4143 Intro to Statistical Methods (3)

FOR THE B.S. (13-14 S.H.)

Complete all the following:

  • GEOG:1050 Foundations of GIS (4)
  • GEOG:3520 GIS for Environmental Studies (3)
  • STAT:2010 Statistical Methods and Computing (3)

Choose one of the following:

  • STAT/IGPI:3120 Probability and Statistics (4)
  • POLI:3000 Analyzing Political Data (3)
  • ANTH:5110 Anthropological Data Analysis (3)
  • STAT/PSQF:4143 Introduction to Statistical Methods (3)
Capstone course / research Project, choose non-honors or honors

NON-HONORS (1 S.H.)

Choose one of the following

  • ENVS:3010/EES:3010/GEOG:3003 Interdisciplinary Environmental Seminar (1)
  • GEOG:3992 Undergraduate Research (consult advisor) (1)

HONORS (3-6 S.H.)

Choose one of these:

  • GEOG:4995 Honors Thesis (3)
  • POLI:4601 Honors Senior Thesis (3)
  • ANTH:4995 Honors Research Seminar (3)

Or, both of these

  • HIST:3995 History Honors Research Seminar (3)
  • HIST:3996 Honors Thesis (3)

Tracks

Choose one of two tracks (see below for course lists)

 

planning track, 12 s.h.

Choose one of the following:

  • ECON:3625 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3)
  • GEOG:3800 Environmental Economics and Policy (3)

Choose three of the following:

  • ECON:3640/URP:3134 Regional & Urban Economics (3)
  • GEOG:2410 Environment and Development (3)
  • GEOG:2930 Water Resources (3)
  • GEOG:3315 Ecosystem Ecology (3)
  • CPH:3400/GEOG:3210 Health, Work, and the Environment (3)
  • GEOG:3340 Ecosystem Services: Human Dependence on Natural Systems (3)
  • GEOG:3350 Urban Ecology (3)
  • GEOG:3400 Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice (3)
  • GEOG/GHS:3760 Hazards and Society (3)
  • GEOG/GHS:4770 Environmental Justice (3)
  • NAIS/AMST/GHS/HIST:1290 Native American Foods and Foodways (3)
  • URP:3001/GEOG:3920 Planning Livable Cities (3)
  • URP:3350/ECON:3750/GEOG:3940 Transportation Economics (3)
Policy Track, 12 s.h.

Choose one of the following:

  • GEOG:4750 Environmental Impact Analysis (3)
  • POLI:2417 Comparative Environmental Policy (3)

Choose three of the following:

  • ANTH/MUSM:3237 Politics of the Archaeological Past (3)
  • ANTH:3240 Cultural Resources Management Archaeology: Practices and Practicalities (3)
  • CPH:3400/GEOG:3210 Health, Work, and the Environment (3)
  • GEOG:2331 Human Dimensions of Climate (3)
  • GEOG:3400 Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice (3)
  • HIST:3230 American Environmental History (3)
  • NAIS/AMST/GHS/HIST:1290 Native American Foods and Foodways (3)
  • POLI:3100 American State Politics (3)
  • POLI:3102 The U.S. Congress (3)
  • POLI:3110 Local Politics (3)
  • POLI:3111 American Public Policy (3)
  • POLI:3117 Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration (3)
  • POLI:3118 Interest Groups (3)
  • POLI:3123 State Politics in Iowa (section EXW) (3)
  • POLI:3126 Environmental Policy (3)
  • POLI:3128 Politics of the U.S. National Park System (3)
  • POLI:3204/SOC:3525 Public Opinion (3)
  • POLI:3408 Chinese Policy and Society (3)
  • POLI:3424 Global Development (3)