Undergraduate Programs
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BS in Coastal Environmental Studies
The Coastal Environmental Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to assess and address coastal environmental problems. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from physical sciences, natural sciences, and physical geography, combined with an understanding of environmental ethics, environmental policy, and environmental law.
BA in Ecosystems and Human Impact
The Ecosystems and Human Impact major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to assess and address the complex interaction of humans and natural environments. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from ecology, biology, genetics, anthropology, human ecology, geography, combined with an understanding of economics, ethics, and policy within a global perspective.
BA in Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning
The Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to understand and address complex issues related to development, land-use, urbanization, and suburban sprawl. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The goal is to address the complex scientific, legal, ethical, political, environmental, and socio-economic issues that surround the development, management, and use of the built environment.
There are no easy answers to complex environmental problems. We give you the broad background needed to understand our world's most urgent challenges, with plenty of opportunity for focused study in your particular area of interest. Through this interdisciplinary and integrated program, students delve into the ethical, legal, political, scientific, and socioeconomic perspectives that define and surround environmental issues. If you're interested in environmental conservation, environmental law, science journalism, or waste management (to name just a few of the areas covered), this major is for you.
Marine sciences is a highly interdisciplinary field that requires a strong foundation in basic science. This major gives students a comprehensive background in biology, as well as in the physics and chemistry of the ocean. Upper-division electives provide a deeper understanding of particular organisms (algae, fish, marine invertebrates, marine mammals, and micro-organisms) and of habitats (barrier islands, dunes, estuaries, open ocean, rocky intertidal, and salt marshes). This rigorous program is preparation for graduate study and research in marine sciences.
BS in Marine Vertebrate Biology
This degree offers a background in basic biology, with an emphasis on marine vertebrate organisms such as birds, fish, marine mammals, sharks, and turtles. This program includes more intensive training in zoology than the Marine Sciences degree.
The Sustainability Studies major, leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, provides the skills, knowledge, and preparation for students to understand and address the environmental, social, political, economic and ethical issues related to the transformation of our current societies to ones that are sustainable. The curriculum integrates principles and methodologies from social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.
BS in Business Management with a Specialization in Sustainable Business
The major program offers students a solid foundation of essential business concepts and applications with a focus on sustainable business practices. The major follows Stony Brook's philosophy of business education. Courses are practical and project oriented. Students are expected to develop a portfolio of projects that demonstrate their knowledge and expertise to prospective employers. We emphasize experiential learning that includes interacting with the local business community, internships, and team class projects.
Minor in Ecosystems and Human Impact
The Ecosystems and Human Impact minor is intended for students who seek to complement their chosen major with a coherent set of courses emphasizing the interaction between humans and ecosystems from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Minor in Environmental Design, Policy and Planning
The Environmental Design, Policy, and Planning minor is intended for students who seek to complement their chosen major with a foundation in complex scientific, legal, ethical, political, environmental, and socio-economic issues that surround the development, management, and use of the built environment.
Minor in Sustainability Studies
The Sustainability Studies minor is intended for students who seek to complement their chosen major with a foundation in the social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainability.
With a focus on environmental sustainability, Stony Brook Southampton's minor in Business Management can provide you with a solid foundation of essential business concepts and applications.
Stony Brook Southampton and Stony Brook's College of Business have joined together to offer you the opportunity to earn your four-year undergraduate degree and a two-year MBA in our five-year Fast Track BA/BS-MBA Program.