environmental undergraduate programs in the College of Agricultural Sciences
- Agroecology
Penn State's Agroecology major is designed to provide you with the breadth of experience and
training you need to become a leader in the agricultural sciences.
- Community, Environment, and Development NEW!
Community, Environment, and Development is a new major that focuses on the dynamic interrelationships between human communities and the environment. The major will provide students with knowledge and tools to help design and implement programs and policies to solve environmental concerns at scales ranging from local to global.
- Environmental Resource Management Program
The Environment and Natural Resources Institute serves as the administrative home to the
Environmental Resource Management Program. This major is an interdisciplinary, science-based
major designed for students who want to use problem-solving, decision-making, and communication
skills to address environmental and resource management issues.
- Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics
Environmental and renewable resource economists use the ideas and methods of economics to
understand the forces that lead us to act in ways that either help or degrade the environment.
Armed with this knowledge, they offer information and insights to help individuals, businesses,
and policy makers improve and protect the environment.
- Environmental Soil Science
Soil links earth, atmosphere, water, and terrestrial life and controls the availability of
nearly every life-sustaining resource. In the Environmental Soil Science major you will
use biology, hydrology, chemistry, and physics to study the soil-based processes that shape,
preserve, and protect our environment.
- Forest Science
The Forest Science major provides for the education of foresters at the professional level
and is accredited by the Society of American Foresters.
- Toxicology
The Toxicology Program provides state-of-the art training in the study of the causes and prevention of adverse consequences to human and animal health that may result from environmental, occupational and clinical exposures to chemical agents.
- Wildlife and Fisheries Science
The major in Wildlife and Fisheries Science provides an integrated program of study for students
interested primarily in conservation and management of wildlife and fish species and their
environments.
- Wood Products
The nation's forests are a major renewable natural resource providing the raw material for a variety of wood products. The Wood Products major offers a specialization either in the Wood Products Processing and Manufacturing Option or the Wood Products Business and Marketing Option. Students who select Wood Products Processing and Manufacturing gain knowledge in areas of wood science and technology and in the conversion of wood into useful products for society.
