We're still actively developing this site. If you encounter any issues, please report them! - Report an issue

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

ENVIRST/GEOG 339
Course Description

Examines major environmental conservation approaches in the U.S. and developing countries and how they are influenced by sociopolitical factors, cultural values and scientific understandings of nature. Historical and contemporary cases are explored with emphasis on biodiversity and climate change issues.

Prerequisties

Sophomore standing

Satisfies
Credits

4

Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Grade Point Average
3.42

17.42% from Historical

Completion Rate
96.77%

1.43% from Historical

A Rate
37.1%

104.25% from Historical

Class Size
62

-57.94% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

Sorted by ratings from Rate My Professors

Similar Courses

CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRST/GEOG 537

Geographic approaches to culture-nature relationships, including human perception of, use of, and adaptation to the physical environment, with emphasis on traditional subsistence systems; selected topics from contemporary and historical sources.

NATURE, POWER AND SOCIETY

ENVIRST/GEOG 337

Explores the links between nature, power and society in today's world. Considers the complex relationships between humans and the earth's resources, including food, energy, physical materials, water, biota, and landscapes. Examines issues linked to population and scarcity, resource tenure, green consumerism, political economy, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, political ecology, and environmental justice.

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

ENVIRST/GEOG 139

Explores the global and local nature of environmental problems, including issues of climate change, food, energy, globalization, deforestation, biodiversity loss, resource access, environmental justice, and population. Considers how we should analyze and act on environmental problems as we confront the apparently daunting scale of such issues. What appear to be single global environmental issues are actually composed of many smaller, context-specific, and place-dependent problems or conflicts. Through an interdisciplinary and geographic perspective, these issues can be understood and addressed at the scale of our lived lives.

AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY 460

Survey of interactions among people and natural environments from before European colonization to present. Equal attention to problems of ecological change, human ideas, and uses of nature and history of conservation and environmental public policy.

PRESERVING NATURE

ENVIRST 413

Understand the theory and practice the skills of effective, scientific, ethical, and legitimate preservation of nature (biodiversity, the atmosphere, water, etc.). Learn from global lessons in how to intervene against threats to nature, and the roles of ethics, law, and research in preserving nature. Gain mastery of terminology and usage so as to communicate professionally about nature preservation.