Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Environmental Studies] From Ramapo College of New Jersey

Founded in 1974, Ramapo?s Environmental Studies Program pioneered this new field, preparing over our 41 year history some 2,500 graduates to work for a sustainable future. Our students emerge as leaders and sound decision makers. As cross-disciplinary thinkers, able to draw upon the wisdom of many fields, they understand where we need to go and how to get there.
Following the distinctive pillars of Ramapo?s education mission, we promote an integrative interdisciplinary mode of learning, simultaneously local and global in focus, experiential in form, protecting and promoting social and ecological diversity.

Given our distinctive Social Ecological approach, our program?was a forerunner in recognizing sustainability as the central focus of study given the inseparability of environment and society (including the economy). Transcending siloed and narrow disciplinary thinking, we emphasize the interplay of ecology and society throughout a truly integrative and diverse curriculum.

After some foundational science courses, students take a core program. After our gateway course World Sustainability, they study Public Policy, Environmental History, Energy and Society, and Natural History and Field Ecology.