Environmental Analysis, Sustainability and the Built Environment Track, Major

Learning Outcomes for Sustainability and the Built Environment Track within the Major of Environmental Analysis

1. Understand and analyze sustainable design in a holistic manner.
2. Develop conceptual frameworks for critical inquiry and environmental problem solving.
3. Apply design concepts and skills for a sustainability and resilience.
4. Integrate scholarship and analyses to test spatial ideas.

Requirements for the Major in Environmental Analysis

The Environmental Analysis major offers four Tracks:

1. Environment and Society
2. Environmental Policy
3. Sustainability and the Built Environment
4. Environmental Science.

The Major consists of three sets of requirements:

1. A Core set of Courses and a Capstone Seminar or Thesis depending upon Track
2. A Track with Course Plan
3. An Environmental Internship for the Environment and Society, Environmental Policy, and Sustainability and the Built Environment Tracks

The number of courses required varies depending upon track, with at least 11 courses required for the Environment and Society, Environmental Policy, and Sustainability and the Built Environment tracks. Students who choose to craft a senior thesis or project are required to enroll in an additional course of independent research and writing (EA 198). Seniors with at least a 3.5 GPA who write a senior thesis or project and are awarded an A or A- on this thesis/project are eligible for Honors.

Sustainability and the Built Environment Track

1. Seven Core Courses and One Internship
   
   • EA 010 PZ - Introduction to Environmental Analysis 
   • EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice  or POLI 136 PO - Politics of Environmental Justice 
   • EA 030L KS - Science and the Environment  or EA 030 PO - Science and the Environment .
   • EA 133 PZ - Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments 
   • EA 134 PZ - Sustainable Places in Practice: Studio/Lab  (Students must take a course in area of Representation as prerequisite for enrollment)
   • One additional natural science course
   • Environmental Internship
   • Capstone: EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental Analysis 
2. Track Requirements (Five Track Courses)
   
   1. One course In Representation
      
      • Studio art or production-based media studies course as approved by adviser (e.g., ART 011 PZ - Drawing , ART 012 PZ - Painting , ART 015 PZ - Beginning Wheel Throwing , ART 016 PZ - Beginning Hand Building , ART 020 PO - Black and White Photography , ART 021 PO - Foundations of 2D Design , ART 057 PZ - Mixed Media/Sculpture , ART 075 PZ - Watercolor *, ART 113 PZ - Drawing Workshop *; ART 125 PZ - Photography Digital *, MS 093 PZ - Media Off-Screen *, MS 182 HM - Introduction to Video Production *)
      • EA 102 PO - Community Mapping (CP)
      • GEOL 111A PO - Introducttion to GIS 
        *Courses have prerequisites
   2. Four electives from the following options, generally no more than two from any group:
      
      1. History, theory and ecology of the built environment
         
         • ARHI 155 SC - The History of Gardens, East and West 
         • ARHI 179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape, Sustainability 
         • ARHI 188 SC - Representing the Metropolis 
         • CLAS 175 PZ - International Cultural Heritage : Creating the Future of the Past
         • EA 027 PO - Cities by Nature: Times, Place, Space 
         • EA 074 PZ - California’s Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystems 
         • EA 098 PZ - Urban Ecology 
         • EA 140 PZ - The Desert as a Place 
         • EA 165 PZ - Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resource Depletion 
         • EA 171 PO - Water in the West 
         • HIST 016 PZ - Environmental History 
         • HIST 017 PZ - History and Political Economy of Natural Resources /IIS 017 PZ - History and Political Economy of Natural Resources 
         • ONT 101 PZ - Critical Community Studies 
         • POLI 035 PO - City of Angels, City of Quartz 
         • SOC 124 AF - Race, Place and Space 
         • SOC 136 AF - Framing “Urban” Life 
      2. Design
         
         • ART 037 PZ - Environments and Art 
         • ART 103 PZ - Environments Workshop 
         • ART 130 PZ - Design/Build Studio 
         • ART 135 PZ - Sculptural Objects Functional Art (SOFA) 
         • EA 080 PZ - Social Engagement for Sustainable Development 
         • EA 085 PO - Food, Land & the Environment 
         • EA 124 PZ - Protecting Nature: Parks, Conservation Areas & People 
         • EA 031 PZ - Restoring Nature 
         • EA 132 PZ - Practicum in Exhibiting Nature /ART 132 PZ - Practicum in Exhibiting Nature : The Pitzer Outback
         • EA/Art 147. Community Ecology and Design
         • EA 180 PO - Green Urbanism 
         • ENGR 004 HM - Introduction to Engineering Design/Manufacturing 
      3. Policy/Planning
         
         • EA 156 PZ - Hustle and Flow: CA Water Policy 
         • EA 100 PO - Urban Planning and Environment 
         • GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment 
         • POLI 036 PO - Urban Politics & Public Policy 
         • POLI 060 PO - Global Politics of Food and Agriculture 
         • POLI 061 PO - The Global Politics of Water 
         • POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation 
         • POLI 135 SC - Political Economy of Food 
         • POLI 139 PO - Politics of Community Design 
         • PP 325 CGU. Urban Political Economy*
         • PP 338 CGU. Policy Implementation(
         • SPE 318 CGU. Cost-Benefit Analysis*
           *Contact CGU professors directly regarding prerequisites for enrollment

Students may additionally write a thesis or enroll in an advanced capstone studio for honors.

Courses listed as fulfilling each requirement are subject to change and other courses may be counted toward those requirements with approval of academic advisers.