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The Environmental Social Sciences department will discover the causes of sustainability challenges, innovate new solutions to these challenges, and educate future scholars and leaders in how the social sciences can be used to understand and solve sustainability challenges. The department includes two areas: Environmental Behavioral Sciences and Global Environmental Policy.

Global Environmental Policy

Study the economic and political roots of sustainability challenges, and help to design and evaluate policies and practices that address sustainability challenges.

Degree Programs

Undergraduate

The Environmental Social Sciences department does not have an undergraduate degree, however many of its faculty teach in the interdisciplinary Earth Systems Program, which offers a BS and co-terminal MS degree. 

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Graduate Program

Through its courses and seminars, Environmental Social Sciences offers graduate students an opportunity to be part of an intellectual community with common or related interests and goals.

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