Environmental Studies Distribution Requirements

Distribution Requirements

Courses taken to fulfill the Environmental Studies core requirements CANNOT be used to fulfill the Environmental Studies distribution requirements. 

Research Methodologies (ENVST:METHODS)

• BES 301 Science Methods & Practice
• BES 303 Environmental Monitoring Practicum
• BES 316 Ecological Methods
• BES 440 Remote Sensing of the Environment
• BIS 232 Introduction to Data Visualization
• BIS 312 Approaches to Social Research
• BIS 315 Understanding Statistics
• BIS 340 Approaches to Cultural Research
• BIS 342 Geographic Information Systems
• BIS 343 Geographic Visualization
• BIS 344 Intermediate GIS
• BIS 442 Advanced Geographic Information Systems

• BISGWS 303 Approaches to Feminist Studies

Environmental Humanities (ENVST:HUMAN)

• BIS 245 Environment and Humanities
• BIS 282 Globalization
• BIS 319 Public Arts and Environmental Restoration
• BIS 345 American Environmental Thought
• BIS 353 Human Rights Theory and Practice
• BIS 355 History of Science and Technology                                                                                                      
• BIS 356 Ethics and the Environment
• BIS 372 Representation, Colonialism, and the Tropical World
• BIS 391 Environmental History of the Pacific Northwest
• BIS 385 Art & Climate Change
• BIS 468 Human Rights and Sustainable Development    

Environment and Society (ENVST:SOCIETY)

• BIS 252 Politics of Science
• BIS 307 Environmental Justice
• BIS 304 Political Economy and the Environment
• BIS 320 Comparative Political Economies
• BIS 338 Political Institutions and Processes
• BIS 346 Topics in Environmental Policy
• BIS 359 Principles & Controversies of Sustainability
• BIS 392 Water & Sustainability
• BIS 394 Comparative Economic Development
• BIS 395 Environmental Change in Washington State
• BIS 396 Topics in Sustainability
• BIS 405 Environmental Education
• BIS 406 Urban Planning and Geography
• BIS 415 Public Policy and Law
• BIS 419 Urban Politics and Policy
• BIS 458 Energy, Environment and Society
• BIS 459 Conservation & Sustainable Development
• BIS 483 Community Organizing
• BST 445 Political Economy of Energy
• BISGST 303 History and Globalization
• BISGST 324 International Political Economy
• BISSEB 304 Institutions and Social Change

Environmental Science and Geography (ENVST:ENVSCI)

• BEARTH 155 Introduction to Climate Science
• BEARTH 201 Mapping the Earth System
• BEARTH 317 Soils in the Environment 
• BEARTH 318 Hydrogeology
• BEARTH 320 Impacts of Climate Change
• BEARTH 321 Geomorphology
• BEARTH 341 Natural Hazards and Human Disasters
• BES 312 Ecology
• BES 330 Limnology
• BES 331 Estuarine Science and Management
• BES 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology
• BES 460 Water Quality
• BES 485 Conservation Biology
• BES 488 Wetland Ecology
• BES 489 Pacific Northwest Ecosystems
• BES 490 Pacific NW Plants in Restoration & Conservation
• BIS 141 Natural History and Environmental Science
• BIS 218 Power of Maps
• BIS 306 Marine Diversity and Conservation
• BIS 360 Pollinator Diversity and Conservation 
• BIS 390 Ecology and Environment (* if not taken as core requirement)