Through this combined major, successful undergraduates will develop an awareness of the intrinsic connection between the environment and economics and understand how long-run economic growth is crucially dependent on policies that account for the sustainability and well-being of the environment and that are grounded on environmental science.
There are a number of interdisciplinary opportunities involving environmental and sustainability sciences. Due to curricular overlap, combinations of any environmental and sustainability sciences major, including combined majors, cannot occur with majors or minors in ecology and evolutionary biology or environmental studies or with the minor in geoscience.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
Environmental and Sustainability Sciences Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| ENVR 1400 and ENVR 1401 | Foundations in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Lab for ENVR 1400 | 5 |
| ENVR 1200 and ENVR 1201 | Dynamic Earth and Lab for ENVR 1200 | 4-5 |
| or ENVR 2200 | Earth's Changing Cycles | |
| EEMB 2302 and EEMB 2303 | Ecology and Lab for EEMB 2302 | 5 |
| ENVR 2515 | Sustainable Development | 4 |
| Complete one of the following skills courses: | 4-5 | |
| Geographic Information Systems and Lab for ENVR 3300 | ||
| Geographical Information Systems | ||
| Complete four courses from these lists: | 16 | |
| Earth Oceans and Environmental Change | ||
| Earth Materials and Lab for ENVR 2310 | ||
| Global Oceanic Change | ||
| Oceanography | ||
| Applied Hydrogeology and Lab for ENVR 4500 | ||
| Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience | ||
| Global Biogeochemistry | ||
| Conservation, Restoration, and Management | ||
| Introduction to Evolution | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Ecological and Conservation Genomics | ||
| Landscape and Restoration Ecology | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Streams and Watershed Ecology | ||
| Sustainable Planning and Development | ||
| Food Security and Sustainability | ||
| Water Resources | ||
| Climate and Atmospheric Change | ||
| Environmental Planning | ||
| Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions | ||
| Environment and Society | ||
| Applied Social-Ecological Systems Modeling | ||
| Urban Ecology | ||
| Environmental Politics and Policy | ||
| Ecological Economics | ||
| International Environmental Policy | ||
| Environment, Technology, and Society | ||
Economics Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| ECON 1115 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 4 |
| ECON 1116 | Principles of Microeconomics | 4 |
| ECON 2315 | Macroeconomic Theory | 4 |
| ECON 2316 | Microeconomic Theory | 4 |
| ECON 2350 | Statistics | 4 |
| ECON 2560 | Applied Econometrics | 4 |
| ECON 3423 | Environmental Economics | 4 |
| Supporting Courses | ||
| Calculus | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Calculus for Business and Economics | ||
or MATH 1241 | Calculus 1 | |
or MATH 1245 | Calculus with Applications | |
or MATH 1251 | Calculus and Differential Equations for Biology 1 | |
or MATH 1340 | Intensive Calculus for Engineers | |
or MATH 1341 | Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering | |
| Computer Science | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4-5 | |
| Computer Science and Its Applications and Lab for CS 1100 | ||
| Programming with Data and Data Science Programming Practicum | ||
| Fundamentals of Information Analytics | ||
| Electives | ||
| Complete two courses in the following ranges, with only one at the 1000 level: | 8 | |
ECON 1200–ECON 1999 | ||
ECON 2990 –ECON 4689 | ||
ECON 4900–ECON 4999 | ||
ECON 5200–ECON 5999 | ||
Integrative Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to College | ||
| ENVR 1000 | Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern | 1 |
| or ECON 1000 | Economics at Northeastern | |
| or INSC 1000 | Science at Northeastern | |
| Environmental and Sustainability Sciences Integrative Course | ||
| Complete one of the following (courses used as electives may not overlap with courses used as integrative): | 4 | |
| Food Security and Sustainability | ||
| Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions | ||
| Applied Social-Ecological Systems Modeling | ||
| Advanced Spatial Analysis | ||
| Economics Integrative Course | ||
| Complete one of the following (courses used as electives may not overlap with courses used as integrative): | 4 | |
| Economics of Sustainability | ||
| International Food Policy | ||
| Energy Economics | ||
| Capstone | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Solving Emerging Environmental Challenges through Capstone | ||
| Senior Thesis | ||
| Senior Economics Seminar | ||
English Requirements (First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENGW 1111 | First-Year Writing | 4 |
| or ENGW 1102 | First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers | |
| ENGW 3307 | Advanced Writing in the Sciences | 4 |
| or ENGW 3308 | Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences | |
| or ENGW 3315 | Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines | |
Major GPA/Credit Requirement
Grades in the following four economics courses must average to a minimum of C (2.000):
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 2315 | Macroeconomic Theory | 4 |
| ECON 2316 | Microeconomic Theory | 4 |
| ECON 2350 | Statistics | 4 |
| ECON 2560 | Applied Econometrics | 4 |
83 semester hours required in the major
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ECON 1115 | 4 | CS 1100, DS 2000 and DS 2001, or MISM 2510 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 or 1102 | 4 | ECON 1116 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| ENVR 1000 or ECON 1000 | 1 | ENVR 2200 or 1200 | 4 | ||||
| ENVR 1400 | 4 | ENVR elective 1 | 4 | ||||
| ENVR 1401 | 1 | ||||||
| MATH 1231, 1241, 1245, 1251, 1340, or 1341 | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ECON 2315 | 4 | ECON 2316 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Co-op | |
| EEMB 2302 | 4 | ECON 2350 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
| EEMB 2303 | 1 | ENVR 2515 | 4 | ||||
| ECON elective 1 | 4 | ENVR elective 3 | 4 | ||||
| ENVR elective 2 | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | ECON 2560 | 4 | ENVR elective 4 | 4 | Co-op | ||
| ECON 3423 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENGW 3308, 3307, or 3315 | 4 | ||||||
| ENVR 3150, 5350, 5450, or 5563 | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | ECON 1711, 3404, or 3425 | 4 | |||||
| ENVR 4050, 4997, or ECON 4692 | 4 | ||||||
| ECON elective 2 | 4 | ||||||
| ENVR elective 5 | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 131 | |||||||