Gain the training, tools and hands-on experience you’ll need to help create a greener future with a degree in environmental studies from Adelphi University on Long Island.
As an interdisciplinary social science, you’ll gain important skills and knowledge applicable to many different professional fields. For example, natural resource technicians and conservation managers are employed to study, monitor, and preserve wildlife and plants in parks and on public land.
There are also many opportunities in the expanding “green economy,” including public and private sector non-profit organizations, policy developers and analysts, or in academia as environmental social scientists. You could also pursue a career as a middle school or high school earth science teacher.
In this degree program, you’ll gain valuable technical skills using geographic information systems (GIS), experience that is currently in high demand in many fields from politics to city planning or land management professions.
Recognizing the interplay of technology, culture, economics and politics involved in the issues facing the future of our planet, we take an interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. We give our environmental studies students a solid grounding in the natural and social sciences, allowing them to focus on the areas they wish to pursue.
The environmental studies minor at Adelphi offers students from every major a basic grounding in the scientific, technical, social and cultural issues presented by the interaction of human beings with their environment and the need to build a more environmentally sustainable future.
This exciting 4+1 accelerated environmental studies program gives students a solid foundation in climate and environmental studies, with a particular emphasis on human adaptations to climate change and environmental degradation or topics like green energy or promoting environmentally-friendly societies.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded Adelphi University and Principal Investigator Andrea Ward, PhD, associate provost for research and special projects, a $2.49 million grant for the “Ensuring STEM Student Success Through an Integrative Support Program.”
As part of my STEP training, I taught a course to Adelphi undergrads that examined sustainable initiatives through social, economic and environmental lenses. I loved engaging students from diverse backgrounds in hands-on activities that asked them to think critically about their impact on the environment.
Lisa Marino ’16
BA in Environmental Studies and Adelphi’s STEP program. She currently teaches earth science at a middle school on Long Island.
Classroom learning is just the beginning of your environmental studies education at Adelphi in New York on Long Island. From the nearby shores of Nassau County to destinations across the globe, providing field experience is a vital part of our curriculum. Experiential opportunities include:
Adelphi students taking part in an Alaskan field experience.
I spent the past two summers doing fieldwork alongside my professors in the Matanuska and Tanana valleys in Alaska. It made me realize how much I want to do this work professionally.
To apply for the environmental studies program, submit the appropriate application requirements:
All undergraduate students have the opportunity to apply for the following programs to expand their educational landscape:
