Environment, Ethics & Public Policy/ General Environment, Ethics & Public Policy (B.A.)

In the 21st century it's becoming easy to go green.Public opinion, political pressure, emerging business opportunities, and ecological realities are driving the integration of environmental and sustainability concerns into nearly every sphere of life and nearly every major employment sector in the United States and abroad.

Southern New Hampshire University's innovative environment, ethics & public policy major prepares students to take their places as professionals and as citizens in this rapidly changing world.Our graduates have the knowledge and skills and are committed to cultivating the wisdom necessary to build new and better, environmentally sustainable futures for themselves and their families, their communities, and the world.

The environment, ethics & public policy major draws on faculty from throughout the School of Liberal Arts and elsewhere at SNHU.By linking a set of environment, ethics & public policy core courses with students' choice of concentration options, the major prepares students for careers or post-undergraduate study in environmental communication and public relations, environmental database or information systems management,  environmental journalism, environmental politics and policy, environmental pre-law, industrial ecology, sustainable business, or eco-entrepreneuring, sustainable development, sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, environmental field sciences, marine sciences and oceanography or general environment, ethics & public policy.

For more information about careers in these fields, see The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century and The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference:Environmental Work for a Sustainable Future, which are available in SNHU's Shapiro Library and through the web site of the Environmental Careers Organization, as well as the other sources of information listed below. For a sampling of current environmental job opportunities, see the web sites of Environmental Career.com, Green Dream Jobs, and Environmental Career Opportunities.

Major Requirements 
B.A./B.S. Core  45 credits
Liberal Arts Core 18 credits

Environment, Ethics & Public Policy Core
ENV 219 Environmental Issues  (course description)
ENV 400 Environmental Problem-Solving Colloquium (course description)
Choose one of the following: 
ENV 309  Environmental Ecology (course description)
ENV 310  Environmental Chemistry  (course description)
Choose one of the following: 
ENV 332 The Nature Writers (course description)
ENV 363 Environmental Ethics (course description)
Choose two of the following:
ENV 304 Sustainable Development in Less Developed Countries (course description)
ENV 304A Sustainable Development:  Latin American Field Experience (course description)
ENV 304B Sustainable Development:  Caribbean Field Experience (course description)
ENV 319   Environmental Politics, Public Policy, and Law (course description)
ENV 322   Political Economy of Development and the Environment (course description) 
ENV 324   Industrial Ecology (course description)

Concentration in General Environment, Ethics & Public Policy
Students interested in acquiring a general environment, ethics & public policy education to prepare either for an environmentally-oriented career not listed above or for graduate school choose as their concentration option fifteen credits of ENV courses not used to fulfill another requirement of the major.