Environmental Education

Major themes:

  • Education for global sustainability
  • Globalization and the study of international relations
  • Curricular innovation

GVPT courses on Harrison-related themes:

Undergraduate

  • GVPT273: Introduction to Environmental Politics
  • GVPT280: Comparative Politics
  • GVPT 306: Global Ecopolitics
  • GVPT309A: Comparative and International Environmental Politics
  • GVPT399H: Comparative Environmental Law
  • GVPT409F: Assessing Global Futures
  • GVPT419B: Advanced Topics in Environmental Policy Analysis
  • GVPT459B: Comparative Environmental Politics

Graduate

  • GVPT808A: Analyzing Future Global Futures

Environmental Science and Policy program on campus:

Established in 1997, Environmental Science and Policy (ENSP) is an exciting, four-College program sponsored by Agriculture and Natural Resources; Behavioral and Social Sciences; Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and Life Sciences.

While all ENSP students begin their academic career in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, when you declare your Area of Concentration, you will move to and graduate from the College sponsoring that Concentration. Advising is integral to ENSP, and you will get lots of help exploring and choosing an area of concentration that fits your interests and background. In addition, you will be encouraged to spend at least one semester off-campus, whether completing an internship or studying abroad or elsewhere in the United States.

The in-depth training in your concentration combined with internship experience and a broad, interdisciplinary background provides sound preparation for the job market or graduate school. This program intends to provide the best of a liberal arts college with the best of our comprehensive university to provide you with a challenging and sound education in this emerging discipline.

The Department of Government and Politics is proud to support the Environmental Politics and Policy concentration within the ENSP program. The  concentration  focuses on politics--as both a source of environmental problems and the  setting in which policy responses are framed and developed. The  concentration is designed  to give students a detailed understanding of the  forces shaping political behavior, the nature  and workings of political  institutions, and the ways in which both domestic and international  structures shape and constrain environmental policy responses. The Politics  and Policy  concentration provides a useful foundation for careers in a range  of public policy settings,  including government service, advocacy groups,  business settings, and intergovernmental  organizations. The concentration  also prepares students for graduate study in law, public  policy, public  administration, or political science.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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