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Environmental Studies


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Beloit offers five different environmental studies and environmental science majors: three disciplinary majors in environmental biology, environmental chemistry, and environmental geology, and two interdisciplinary majors: Environmental Communication and Arts and Environmental Justice and Citizenship. Choose your focus, and put your passion toward changing the world.

Environmental Justice students conduct research in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness. Environmental Justice students conduct research in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness.

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Build on your talents and passions to explore different ways to protect the environment. The courses for environmental studies and environmental science majors are as diverse as the world around us. Learn about biodiversity and geological hazards. Design energy efficient machines and buildings, and sustainable communities. Prepare for environmental activism. Make your art an instrument of social and environmental change.

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At Beloit, environmental studies and environmental science majors and minors have unique opportunities to conduct field research with faculty and fellow students, study abroad, pursue internships, and engage in sustainability work on-campus as well in the community.

Alumni have gone on to careers in the arts, journalism, community-based activism, education, environmental law, environmental science, industry, and international organizations such as the United Nations.

Martu Kollie helps communities protect themselves from flooding
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Martu Kollie helps communities protect themselves from flooding

Her work was conducted during the Summer of 2022 through PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies Green Team Program in Northern New Jersey

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Nov18th

“The Science and Impact of Climate Change” - Annual Ivan Stone Lecture

Steve Vavrus, Wisconsin’s State Climatologist and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts will address the theme of Climate Change and Climate Justice. 

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Abhey Guram attends a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Abhey Guram ’25’s senior thesis to be published in undergraduate research journal

Abhey presented his thesis at the 32nd Annual Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science on Thursday, April 24th, 2025.

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