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Summer problems and theses courses
May 14 - August 10,
12th Annual American Ecological Engineering Society Meeting
June 7 - 9, SUNY-ESF. Event Website
Summer Session II begins
Monday, July 2, 2012, Information and Registration
Graduate Workshop: "Ethics, Culture and Community-based Environmental Research"
August 15 - 17, TBA.
Complete Environmental Studies Calendar
ESF Graduates Look Forward to Green Futures
Honorary Degree Recipient Has Early Connection To ESF
Academic Regalia c. 2012: Former Plastic Bottles
Summer Session Offers ESF Courses Online
ESF Summer Session offers a variety of excellent online courses, several of which fulfill general education requirements. READ MORE
Land Use and Community/Individual Priorities Are Symposium Focus
Welcome to the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), in New York's beautiful fingerlake region and near the Adirondack Mountains. The department is home to the state's premier Environmental Studies undergraduate and graduate
degree programs, and ESF's outstanding writing program.
The mission of the Department of Environmental Studies is to advance knowledge of the social and cultural dynamics of ecological sustainability. It does so through interdisciplinary research and scholarship, teaching, and outreach focused on environmental policy, communication, and decision making, in productive interaction with the scientific community, government, business, non-governmental organizations and citizens, locally, regionally, and internationally.
Environmental Studies programs at ESF integrate and balance the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences in a creative, interdisciplinary learning context focused on addressing contemporary environmental issues and problems, from local to global. Departmental faculty and students engage in research, creative work, and service throughout New York, across the United States, and around the world. The department serves students, citizens, organizations, communities, and public and private institutions that want to make a difference in the world.
The department offers a variety of foundational, research, and professional degree and certificate programs including the Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Science (M.S.), and Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Environmental Studies; and graduate certificates in Environmental Decision Making and on Advanced Study in Conflict Resolution. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees supervised by departmental faculty are offered through ESF's interdepartmental Graduate Program in Environmental Science. Students benefit from the relationship between ESF and neighboring Syracuse University, which includes concurrent degree programs and mutual use of libraries and other facilities.
All our programs aim to achieve:
Environmental Studies programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels emphasizes interdisciplinary social science, humanities, and natural science approaches to environmental understanding and stewardship. The programs maintain a strong academic orientation, facilitating student and faculty engagement with fundamental environmental challenges and dynamics such as multiple and conflicting levels of environmental governance, participatory democracy, sustainable development, uses and limits of scientific prediction, discourses of environment, cultural expressions of nature, risk, and ecological sustainability.
Contact Us Department of
Environmental Studies
106 Marshall Hall
SUNY-ESF
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210-2787
Phone +1.315.470.6636
Fax +1.315.470.6915
Email: envsty@esf.edu
The Department of Environmental Studies serves as the administrative home for the writing program (general education written and oral communication, technical writing and literature courses that serve other program). The ESF Writing Program oversees a group of related activities to identify and address the literacy needs of the ESF campus. More information can be found at The ESF Writing Program.