Environment & Sustainability Studies

The Environment & Sustainability Studies program teaches students how to think across disciplinary boundaries to address environmental challenges and to act within their communities for environmental justice. Recently created but right on time, the major provides a holistic education in Wake Forest’s finest tradition of collaborative, forward-thinking studies.

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Did You Know?

• This highly interdisciplinary major calls on the expertise of faculty in more than 15 different undergraduate departments; three academic centers; and graduate programs in Arts an Sciences, Business, Divinity and Law.
• Among those partners is the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, which seeks to benefit “environmental protection, sustainability and climate change from the jungles of Peru to the campus of Wake Forest University.”
• Offered for the first time in 2020-21, the major is part of a rapidly growing Environmental program that includes Environmental Science.

Courses

Sample courses for students studying Environment & Sustainability Studies include:

• Environmental Issues
• Leadership for Sustainability
• Genetics and Evolution
• Herpetology

View official major requirements »

Clubs & Organizations

Environment & Sustainability Studies students participate in the following clubs and organizations:

• Wake Adventure Club
• Women in STEM
• Campus Kitchen
• Campus Garden
• Bioethics Club
• Sustainable WFU

Career Outcomes

Careers that often interest Environment & Sustainability Studies majors include:

• Environmental Engineer
• Sustainability Director
• Sustainability Manager
• Sustainability Specialist

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