This option is available within the Environmental Sciences major at the following location:

• Corvallis

The Alternative Energy option draws from a variety of disciplines that offer courses in energy-related topics. Students in this option will be well-informed about energy alternatives for work in urban and regional planning, city government, NGOs promoting energy alternatives to fossil fuels sources, power companies working with the public, policy-making in the energy field, and law school with an aim toward environmental law.

Option Code: 842

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate a rigorous cross-disciplinary base across the biological, physical, and social sciences.
• Articulate connections between multiple components of human and natural systems, including implications for land, air, water, climate, energy, food, biodiversity, and human health.
• Investigate and diagnose interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder environmental issues to propose solutions.
• Apply the analysis of data to an environmental problem.
• Reflect on how identity, including one’s own, affects the perception of issues and the practice of environmental science.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences in writing, speech, and in graphic forms.

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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)

Option Code: 842