Making a Difference in the World
Environment
Preserve, conserve, restore. Make a difference in the world.
Global climate change affects nearly every aspect of life on our planet. We engage you with the critical environmental issues facing the planet today, and equip you with the knowledge and problem-solving skills that will enable you to deal with real-world environmental challenges in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. We need people like you to make a difference to our environmental future.
Bachelor of Science
Our Environmental Science degrees provide you with the knowledge, experiences and problem-solving skills to solve global to local environmental issues facing the planet today. We need you to join us to engage in conservation ecology, biodiversity, ecological restoration, marine ecology, environmental monitoring, and environmental education. Our teacher certification degree qualifies you to teach middle-high school to our future generations.
Environmental Science w/Field Biology concentration
Environmental Science w/Teaching Certification
Bachelor of Arts
Our Environmental Studies degrees prepare you to use what you will learn in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences to understand human interactions with the environment. We need you to join us to confront environmental justice, policy, ethics, law, spirituality, creative expression (writing, film, arts), and to engage communities in environmental education.
Environmental Studies w/Humanities concentration
Environmental Studies w/Social Sciences concentration
This degree may be eligible for completion in three years through our Degree in Three program. Learn more and find out if you're a fit.
Minors
Minor in Environmental Studies
Our Environmental Studies minor is perfect for any student to gain foundational knowledge and skills in learning about and participating in environmental issues that will enhance your primary undergraduate major.
Showcase
See what our faculty and students are accomplishing
Leigh Adrienne Ingram, Ignatian Scholar
At Loyola, she served as a biological research assistant, assisting with research and managing the university's aquatic ecology lab; she has also worked as a special projects assistant for the Loyola Center for Environmental Communication, where she co-authored two professional presentations.
Dr. Rob Verchick, "Connect the Dots"
Environment Program faculty member and Endowed Chair of Environmental Law creates podcast, offer engaging, accessible discussions with top experts, helping listeners “connect the dots.”
Mariana Kendall, Summer Undergraduate Internship
Interns were involved in hands-on activities related to climate research that allowed them to see the direct impacts of climate variability and change on the West Texas Southern High Plains, the prairie and forest ecosystems and tribal cultures of Oklahoma, and the bayous, delta and coastline of Louisiana.
Pursue Environmental Education
You will have the opportunity to engage with people of all ages in community projects that address how humans interact with our natural and built environments.
Study Abroad and Tropical Ecology
Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (Tropical Ecology) and in India (Himalayas) or in Loyola facilitated programs throughout the world.