CODE	NAME	DESCRIPTION
ENVR 109	Introduction to Ecology	See Biology 109.
ENVR 110	Pollutants in the Environment	Same as CHEM 110.
ENVR 111	Marine Biology of the Chesapeake Bay with Lab	Same as BIOL 111.
ENVR 199	Introduction to Biological Thinking	Same as BIOL 199.
ENVR 201	Introduction to Environmental Studies	Overview of contemporary sustainability issues, including systems thinking, justice, integration, acting for positive change, and sustainability knowledge (species extinction, resource depletion, pollution, and climate change among others). Students...
ENVR 215	Geography of the James River Watershed	See Geography 215
ENVR 220	Ecotourism	See Geography 220
ENVR 230	Environmental Economics	See Economics 230.
ENVR 250	Planet Earth: Wind, Water, Fire	Basic concepts of earth systems science and physical geography. Topics include: introduction to mapping, GIS and remote sensing; weather and climate; drought, floods, and environmental hydrology; earthquakes, volcanos, landforms and geomorphology; an...
ENVR 260	Foundations of Geospatial Analysis	See Geography 260
ENVR 269	Environmental Ethics	Introduces students to the moral issues and ethical approaches that characterize interaction with our natural environment. Topics will vary but will typically include issues such as our moral obligation to nonhuman species and to future human generat...
ENVR 280	Selected Topics	May be repeated when topics vary.
ENVR 300	Special Topics	Selected topics about the environment.
ENVR 315	Landscape Ecology	See Geography 315
ENVR 320	Directed Research	Research with a faculty member in an environmental area.
ENVR 322	The Global Impact of Climate Change	Rapid climate change is causing an increase in the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans. This is a truly global problem that requires international research and collaboration to resolve. The USA is a major producer of the atmospheric greenhouse g...
ENVR 333	Georgraphies of Amazonia	See Geography 333
ENVR 345	Global Sustainability: Society, Economy & Nature	See Geography 345
ENVR 360	Environmental Remote Sensing	See Geography 360
ENVR 362	Environmental Law and Policy	See Political Science 362.
ENVR 364	Environmental Geology	Introduces students to the global environmental impact of anthropogenic climate change and the possible impact of the way we live in the USA on poor, marginalized, and at risk communities around the world.
ENVR 365	Advanced Spatial Analysis	See Geography 365.
ENVR 366	International Environmental Law	Explores how the international community has managed and mismanaged global environmental problems since the watershed UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Involves a mix of readings, discussions, and simulations in various fields of...
ENVR 388	Individual Internship	Supervised independent field work. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units.
ENVR 390	Independent Study	Topics independently pursued under supervision of a faculty member.
ENVR 391	Environmental Senior Seminar	Close study of a current environmental problem. Student develops a project to address the problem using approaches and skills from the environmental studies core and elective courses.
ENVR 406	Summer Undergraduate Research	Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 8 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas...

Environmental Studies