Dear Colleagues, I received several responses to my 24 February query (below) about 'exemplar' or 'distinguished' undergraduate programs in environmental studies. I list them below. My thanks to everyone who responded. If you intended to respond with recommendations or hunches but haven't yet done so, it's not too late! Please email your ideas to me (not to the list) and I'll include them in a revised list that I'll distribute in a couple of weeks.
Gratefully yours, Michael Listed in reverse chronological order (most recent replies to my query are at the top) 1. ES at NYU<https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fas.nyu.edu%2fenvironment%2fundergraduate%2dprogram.html&umid=75e23810-f75d-4dcc-8d3a-bc62aa0defcd&rct=1740429915&auth=6b96cc275637658c91fe2f0131f0c7214a2d4396-d595c2dddeb3fe6d26415b3b4cb9faa4434163df> 2. Oberlin College<https://www.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/environmental-studies> 3. Arizona State University<https://www.arizona.edu/degree-search/majors/environmental-studies> 4. UW Madison<https://guide.wisc.edu/undergraduate/letters-science/environmental-studies/environmental-studies-major/> 5. Univ Colorado Boulder<https://www.colorado.edu/envs/undergraduate-studies> 6. Maxwell School at Syracuse University (Environment, Sustainability, and Policy major<https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/academics/geography-and-the-environment/undergraduate-studies/environment-sustainability-and-policy>) 7. University of Kansas <https://esp.ku.edu/> 8. UC Santa Barbara<https://es.ucsb.edu/> 9. Northern Illinois University<https://www.niu.edu/clas/ese/index.shtml> 10. Colorado State University <https://warnercnr.colostate.edu/hdnr/undergraduate-study/b-s-human-dimensions-natural-resources/> 11. Two programs at UC Berkeley: Society and Environment<https://nature.berkeley.edu/advising/majors/society-and-environment>, and Conservation and Resource Studies<https://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/conservation-resource-studies/> 12. UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies<https://envs.ucsc.edu/> (perhaps with a special nod to its Agroecology program) 13. And thanks to Charlie Chester for pointing me to his slowly growing list <https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.earthweb.info%2factors%2facademia%2da2z&umid=9428c654-6e0c-4235-85dd-d127e0f86e30&rct=1740392985&auth=6b96cc275637658c91fe2f0131f0c7214a2d4396-7cbe45a790c7432a19a5b3ccfaf7af8281a4f73b> of environmental studies programs that have popped up in the course of his work From: Maniates, Michael Fields Sent: Monday, 24 February 2025 9:11 am To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Exemplar/"Strong" Undergraduate EStudies/Science programs? Dear Colleagues, I'm launching a research project that explores the treatment of theories of social change within undergraduate ES programs in the United States. My intent is to unpack publicly available curricular information from ~ 50 programs that can be reasonably understood to be leaders, exemplars and/or innovators in the field, and follow that up with selected interviews. I'm not looking for the "best" programs per se (what would even count as "the best?"), but rather programs that we are proud of or look up to as educators in the field. I have my own idiosyncratic cut on what this group of ~ 50 might look like, but I don't want to rely on my intuitions alone. Would anyone on the listserv be aware of existing attempts to compile a list of "strong," "exemplar," and/or "innovative" undergraduate EnvStudies/EnvScience/Sustainability programs in the United States? Perhaps folks could reply to me off-list. I will compile what I receive and report back with a summary. Many thanks, Michael Michael F MANIATES Forthcoming: The Living-Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism, Polity Press, 2025 Now available open access: Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life Within Sustainable Limits<Recently%20released%20(open%20access):%20%20Consumption%20Corridors:%20Living%20a%20Good%20Life%20Within%20Sustainable%20Limits,%202021>, Routledge, 2022 Yale-NUS College, Singapore | Professor of Social Sciences, Environmental Studies | Inaugural Head of Environmental Studies (2013 - 2022, 2024) | Distinguished Teaching Award - 2021 | Convener, gep-ed (Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association) | Web: http://michaelmaniates.com<http://michaelmaniates.com/> |Bluesky: @michaelmaniates | Senior Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2011 - 2013 | Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1993 - 2013 | BS (University of California), MA, PhD (Energy and Resources, University of California) | Most people are eagerly groping for some medium, some way in which they can bridge the gap between their morals and their practices. --Saul Alinsky ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/PSAPR06MB4391E5BB7D99D5E6EF7D22D68FD52%40PSAPR06MB4391.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com.
