Are you passionate about exploring God’s creation, learning how it works, and discovering how to care for it?
Taylor University’s Environmental Science program integrates biology, chemistry, and geology with study of environmental laws and policies, economics, and ethics for an interdisciplinary understanding of the Earth and our environment.
You’ll study year-round in Taylor’s 145-acre arboretum—where we teach our courses with outdoor, field-based, hands-on learning. You’ll learn about diverse natural systems and the investigative techniques to conserve and restore the environment. And we don’t stay in Indiana. Students expand their field learning in our specialized summer field course in the western national parks, as well as international opportunities in Ecuador and Africa.
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The Environmental Science major will provide you with a broad foundation in the principles of environmental systems and appropriate technical skills to care for it.
You’ll focus on living organisms and their relationship to the earth, learn to classify plant species, and assess the integrity of ecological systems in courses such as taxonomy, anatomy, systems ecology, and vertebrate natural history.
You’ll also investigate the physical properties and processes of the earth and how to best preserve and restore natural resources through courses on soil science, hydrology, and environmental planning.
Core Environmental Science major courses will provide you with a strong foundation in the systems and principles of general environmental issues and technical skills. You can choose to concentrate further on geology or biology and explore specific environmental issues and processes:
Biology Concentration:
Focus on living organisms and their relationship to the earth. You will learn to classify plant species and assess the integrity of ecological systems in courses such as taxonomy, anatomy, systems ecology, vertebrate natural history. Learn to develop sustainable food systems with courses in sustainable agriculture and food systems.
Geology Concentration:
Investigate the earth’s physical structure and substance with the geology track. You will inspect the processes that act upon the earth and how to best preserve natural resources through courses on soil science, earth materials, geomorphology, hydrology, water resources, and resource planning.
A Taylor liberal arts education will prepare you to live and work in a fast-changing world. It also goes a step further: laying a strong spiritual foundation that cultivates wisdom. You’ll become a well-versed individual, equipped with critical thinking skills, a lifelong love of learning, and an appreciation for God’s creation.
Sam Odell
Class of 2022
Through my major, I studied Field Natural History in the Black Hills of South Dakota, assisted in caring for honeybees and restoration ecology projects like prairie restoration, and participated in wetland delineation.
Annie Stimmel
Class of 2020
My professors’ beliefs were rooted in God’s call to be good stewards and creation’s caregivers. They passed on their enthusiasm for sustainability and agriculture to me.
Emily Schmidt
Class of 2018
Opportunities like field trips and undergraduate research connected me with professionals and provided career opportunities that I wouldn’t have received at any other university.
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Brian Dewar
Department Chair and Associate Professor Biology
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Allison Hunt
Assistant to the Dean, School of Natural and Applied Sciences