Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy & Planning

• Offers a unique university-wide, interdisciplinary degree.
• Managing human interaction with the natural environment, while protecting important natural systems, continues to be one of the critical challenges facing society.
• While rooted in scientific and technological fields, environmental problems and their solutions increasingly deal with public values, economics, law, policy, and planning.
• The EPP degree provides students the opportunity to study environmental problems and their solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective involving humanities, natural and social sciences, planning, and public policy.
• In addition to having significant breadth in the liberal arts tradition, the curriculum provides pre-professional skills in oral and written communications, computer applications, planning and policy analysis and problem solving to prepare students for meaningful employment.
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Curriculum

The curriculum draws from courses in 21 departments in six colleges on campus, and is held together by 10 Urban Affairs and Planning classes including two capstone courses. To enhance student choice the required hours include 14 course "bundles" in which students select from a group of courses.