Consider Environmental Studies at Western
This is what we do . . .
Inside the classroom our students:
- coordinate service projects on public lands
- complete original research in environmental monitoring and design solar panels
- complete senior capstone projcts which have ranged from a wilderness plan for the Black Canyon National Park, to a campus organic garden, to environmental education in local schools, to imagining an environmentally responsibile academic building
Outside the classroom, our students have:
- led efforts towards Western's signing of the Environmental Charter
- worked with Student Government Association to pass a Sustainability Fund to encourage campus environmental projects
- travelled to Kenya to install solar panels
- encouraged President Jay Helman to sign the President's Climate Commitment
Environmental Initiatives at Western
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The first class I took in the Environmental Studies program changed the course of my life. As an ENVS student, I have discovered who I am and how I work most effectively in a social context, while studying the various scientific and philosophical understandings of who we are and where we are going. When I graduate, I will be ready to explore my niche in a society still discovering itself and its future.
Bobby Sebastian, ENVS Senior
Founder of the WSC Sustainability Fund, Fall 2005
The hands-on opportunities for professional growth and development at Western gave me the tools and experience that I needed to transition easily from an undergraduate degree into a practicing, sustainability consultant. Western's interdisciplinary ENVS program provided me with an understanding of the complexityof sustainability issues that has helped me to communicate more effectively with our corporate clientele.
Taryn Mead ('06), Biologist at the Design Table, Biomimicry Guild, Helena, MT; Past SGA President and Founding Member of the Western Sustainabiilty Coalition
The ENVS student gains a strong interdisciplinary approach to solving todays problems. The historical, political, scientific, economic and cultural approaches are emphasized and form the foundation to understanding current issues. This education provides the tools that will be necessary to understand and solve tomorrows problems as well.
Sally Hays, ENVS Faculty Council Member, Assistant Professor of Economics
Consider becoming an Environmental Studies major at Western . . .
Western students, along with faculty from over ten disciplines on campus, have expanded the dynamic nature of both the Environmental Studies Program and the Western experience. Join us! 
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Updated 09/2007