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Established in 2002, the Program in the Environment (PitE) continues to offer both a broad liberal arts education in environmental topics and the opportunity for students to pursue various lines of individual interest in depth. Broadly speaking, PitE’s curriculum focuses on the complex interactions of humans and their environment. To understand these interactions and learn how to create more rational and equitable forms of human habitation on the planet, PitE students develop a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates the methods and approaches of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

In addition to our Environment major and minor, we’ve added four new minors to our curriculum over the last twenty-plus years, namely, Sustainability, Food & the Environment, Energy Science and Policy, and Water and the Environment. Our minors offer many of the same opportunities that our major offers, including the ability for students to gain practical experience. PitE students engage in projects, research, internships, and field work that examine real-world problems and provide leadership immersion experiences, which enable them to integrate and apply their skills to complex environmental and sustainability problems.

In our courses, PitE faculty provide field excursions, research opportunities, and service learning experiences, which give our students the chance to develop their knowledge and test their scholarship with immediate application of what they have learned in lecture or lab. To continue PitE’s record of success and enhance its ability to offer experiential learning opportunities, we must expand our offerings for students to develop their knowledge and put into practice what they have learned in the classroom.

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