Environmental Studies
Major or Minor in
Environmental Studies
You can help save the planet. Come join an interdisciplinary, innovative team of award-winning professors and students who are working together to address today’s environmental challenges through three lenses: science, policy or the humanities. You will work hands-on in small classes and in the field. You have opportunities for internships and original research with faculty. We get dirty, think big and work with campus and community partners to restore streams, improve habitats and reduce waste and pollution.
As an environmental studies major at Linfield
you might take:
Practice strategies for changing the way we perceive, inform, and persuade others about the environmental problems we face. (ENVS 357)
Environmental Communication and Advocacy
Practice strategies for changing the way we perceive, inform, and persuade others about the environmental problems we face. (ENVS 357)
Study the ecology of Pacific Northwest forests in the lab and field including a weekend field trip to Mount Rainier. (ENVS 360)
Forest Ecology and Management
Study the ecology of Pacific Northwest forests in the lab and field including a weekend field trip to Mount Rainier. (ENVS 360)
Work with a community partner to address a local environmental problem (a recent class wrote a successful grant to restore a natural area adjacent to campus). (ENVS 470)
Senior Capstone: Environmental Project
Work with a community partner to address a local environmental problem (a recent class wrote a successful grant to restore a natural area adjacent to campus). (ENVS 470)
Studying environmental studies at Linfield
Learning Outcomes
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Select appropriate methods and correctly apply them in investigating specific environmental problems at local, regional, and/or global scales.
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Critically examine the values, assumptions and contexts that organize human communities and their relationships with the biosphere.
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Effectively communicate environmental information to diverse audiences.expand for image context information
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Collaborate with community partners and integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives in order to creatively analyze and take effective action to address issues of critical environmental concern.expand for image context information
Intern in all areas of environmental studies
Internships provide invaluable hands-on experience and further develop your professional skills. Many students in environmental studies at Linfield have completed internships with local or Portland area companies or nonprofits.
Some companies where environmental studies majors at Linfield have found internship placements include:
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In addition, the environmental studies department has permanent internships set up with the Greater Yamhill Watershed Council (GYWC) that include:
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