The Economics-Environmental Studies major allows you to explore, examine and analyze the most significant environmental issues of our times — global climate change, toxic waste, and habitat loss — through a perspective that emerges from within the field of economics as you join humanity’s efforts to find innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to environmental degradation.
The Economics- Environmental Studies major allows you to explore, examine and analyze the most significant environmental issues of our times — global climate change, toxic waste, and habitat loss — through a perspective that emerges from within the field of economics as you join humanity’s efforts to find innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to environmental degradation.
- 52 total credits; 27 credits in addition to 25 Environmental Studies credits
- Required Courses
- Economics 100 or 101, 102, 227 (or Mathematics 128 or 247), Economics 307, 308, and 477
- One additional course in economics
- One relevant Environmental Social Science Course (not in Economics) from the list above in the Environmental Studies social science foundation courses
- Other notes
- Mathematics 124 or 125 is a prerequisite to 307 & 308
- A minimum requirement of C is required in Economics 307 and 308
- No courses taken P-D-F (including Economics 493 and 494) may count toward major requirements
- Senior Requirements
- Major Field Test (MFT)
- Oral exam in economics
- Those not writing a suitably interdisciplinary honors thesis, are required to complete an oral exam in environmental studies.
- Honors
- Students submit a Honors in Major Study Application to their department
- Students must submit a proposal for their thesis or project
- Must be submitted within the first six weeks of the two-semester period in which student is eligible
- Accumulated at least 87 credits
- Completed two semesters of residency at Whitman
- Cumulative GPA of at least 3.300 on all credits earned at Whitman College
- Major GPA of at least 3.500
- Complete a written thesis or research project prepared exclusively for the satisfaction of this program
- Earn a grade of at least A- on the honors thesis or project and the honors thesis course.
- Pass the senior assessment with distinction
- The department will submit the Honors applications to the Registrar’s Office of students pursuing Honors by the specified deadline
- The department submit “Senior Assessment/Major Study Certificate” to the Registrar’s Office no later the Reading Day
- An acceptable digital copy of the Honors Thesis must be submitted to Penrose Library no later than Reading Day
Required Courses
Other notes
- Mathematics 124 or 125 is a prerequisite to 307 & 308
- A minimum requirement of C is required in Economics 307 and 308.
- No courses taken PDF (including Economics 493 and 494) may count toward major requirements
Senior Requirements
- Major Field Test (MFT)
- Oral exam in economics
- Those not writing a suitably interdisciplinary honors thesis, are required to complete an oral exam in environmental studies.
Honors
- Students submit a Honors in Major Study Application to their department
- Students must submit a proposal for their thesis or project
- Must be submitted within the first six weeks of the two-semester period in which student is eligible
- Accumulated at least 87 credits
- Completed two semesters of residency at Whitman.
- Cumulative GPA of at least 3.300 on all credits earned at Whitman College
- Major GPA of at least 3.500
- Complete a written thesis or research project prepared exclusively for the satisfaction of this program
- Earn a grade of at least A- on the honors thesis or project and the honors thesis course.
- Pass the senior assessment with distinction
- The department will submit the Honors applications to the Registrar’s Office of students pursuing Honors by the specified deadline
- The department submit “Senior Assessment/Major Study Certificate” to the Registrar’s Office no later the Reading Day
- An acceptable digital copy of the Honors Thesis must be submitted to Penrose Library no later than Reading Day
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