Pitzer College
AC-3: Undergraduate Program

The Environmental Analysis major offers students four tracks, including Sustainability and the Built Environment. Student Learning Outcomes for All Majors in Environmental Analysis: Understand and describe the complex social, scientific and humanistic aspects of environmental issues Understand and apply both disciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis to environmental issues Critically analyze, evaluate, and interpret scholarly arguments and popular discourse and be able to communicate this analysis to a variety of communities Develop well-reasoned solutions to environmental predicaments, testing them against relevant criteria and standards Be able to craft well-researched, informative and effective scholarly presentations Contribute knowledge and action regarding environmental issues to the public through service learning, internships, community-based-research, and other activities Additional Specific Student Learning Outcomes for the Separate Tracks within the major of Environmental Analysis Sustainability and the Built Environment Track Understand and analyze sustainable design in a holistic manner. Develop conceptual frameworks for critical inquiry and environmental problem solving. Apply design concepts and skills for sustainability and resilience. Integrate scholarship and analyses to test spatial ideas.

A Minor in Environmental Analysis will be awarded upon completion of a minimum of seven courses, including EA 010 PZ -Introduction to Environmental Analysis, EA 086 PZ -Environmental Justice, and EA 030L KS -Science and the Environment (or EA 030 PO -Science and the Environment ). A relevant internship or field research project is also required. In accordance with College policy, there normally should be no overlap between the courses comprising a student’s major and minor.