专业概况
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The Environmental and Sustainability Sciences (ESS) major is offered in collaboration with the College of Arts & Sciences, where you can explore additional classes. Students in the ESS major will gain a comprehensive and integrated view of the biological, physical-chemical, ecological, and social dimensions of environmental and natural resource issues. This interdisciplinary and integrated major seeks to advance students’ critical abilities to solve real-world environmental problems, manage social-ecological systems in a sustainable manner, and affect decisions involving environmental policy, resource management, and biodiversity conservation and human health. The ESS core curriculum provides fundamental knowledge of the biological, chemical and physical sciences, mathematics and quantitative analysis, and social sciences and humanities.
The curriculum prepares students during their freshmen and sophomore years to pursue a concentration in-depth. Fundamental knowledge of all dimensions of the interdisciplinary curriculum, allows students to understand where their selected concentration fits together with the larger set of disciplinary skills needed to derive sustainable solutions to environmental challenges.
Concentrations include
- Environmental Biology and Applied Ecology
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Humanities
- Environmental Policy and Governance
- Land, Air and Water Resources
- An individualized concentration that is student-designed
Employment Fields
- Agriculture, farming
- Biotechnology
- Business
- Climate action
- Communication
- Education
- Energy
- Environmental consulting
- Food production, security
- Forestry, fisheries, wildlife
- Government, non-governmental agencies
- Healthcare
- International development
- Law
- Natural resource conservation, management
- Policy analysis
- Research
- Sustainable design, urban planning
- Water resources
所属院系
进入哪个院系学习? College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
中国学生入学要求
为来自中国的学生设计 Other English Language Requirements: 600 (paper exam) on TOEFL.
课程信息
学制:全日制(120 学分)
学费:US$56,550.00 (¥ 366,099) /年
开学时间:预计在八月 2022
申请截止日期:
留学地点:College of Agriculture and Life Sciences177 Roberts Hall,ITHACA,New York,14853, United States