Bachelor's in Environmental Inquiry

Environmental Inquiry is a Bachelor program taught at Occidental College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

Environmental Inquiry at Occidental College supports critical and scientific perspectives on natural and human systems. Coursework spans topics tied to climate change, biodiversity, renewable energy, and environmental justice, using interdisciplinary courses across areas such as urban and environmental policy, biology, geology, and religious studies. Students can also connect their studies across departments through environmental concentrations, minors, and majors, including concentrations in environmental science and marine biology, a major in urban and environmental policy, and a minor in food studies.

Learning combines lab, lecture, internships, and fieldwork. Students also receive training in empirical research, quantitative analysis, and interdisciplinary inquiry. Participation options include undergraduate research in the Anderson Center for Environmental Science with the Moore Lab of Zoology, the Vantuna Research Group, or the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute.

Students may join student-led sustainability initiatives and clubs such as Touchdown Thrift, Biology Club, FEAST Garden, and Sunrise Oxy, and they can explore community-based learning classes and internship programs through UEPI or InternLA.

Modules

• BIO 105: Marine Biology
• BIO 110: Introductory Biology: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution
• BIO 260: Biodiversity and Organization of Marine Ecosystems
• BIO 270: Ecology
• BIO 275: Flora of Southern California
• BIO 360: Avian Biology
• BIO 372: Global Change Biology
• BIO 363: Functional Marine Ecology
• BIO 103: Topics in Biology: Ecological Enhancement and Restoration
• BLST 212: Fueling the Green Energy Revolution: The New Scramble for Africa
• BLST 218: Black Ecological Thought
• CTSJ 201: Environmental Injustice: Race, Poverty, and the Law

The minimum requirements for admission in Environmental Inquiry at Occidental College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Occidental College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Occidental College as pre-requiste for admission in Environmental Inquiry.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.oxy.edu/academics/student-success/environmental-inquiry-oxy

• Los Angeles County Zoo
• North East Trees
• City of Pasadena, Department of Water & Power
• San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
• Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI)
• Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
• RuckusRoots
• PIRG
• Roux Associates
• Applied Research Associates
• CalRecycle
• State Water Resources Control Board
• Orange County Coastkeeper/ Inland Empire Waterkeeper
• Recology
• Environment America

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.