Environmental Psychology

ENVIR ST 402 LEC 002
6-week session | May 20 – June 30
Tuesday/Thursday, 9–10:15 a.m.
3 credits

Online course

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Course Description

Interest in environmental psychology is growing rapidly because solving issues like climate change, ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss hinge on understanding and changing human behavior.

Environmental psychology is the study of the interactions between people and the natural and physical world. In this course you will learn about theory, research, and practice within this discipline to understand how people make behavioral decisions about nature, and how to foster environmentally sustainable practices.

This course will examine the human mind, emotion, behavior, language, social patterns, biases, and other factors that generate challenges and solutions that are central to environmental psychology. Specifically, students will develop deep knowledge and reasoning skills about the circumstances around which people make decisions to protect the environment. They will also apply this knowledge to help solve natural resource management problems.

This class will be of interest to students who are broadly interested in psychology, human dimensions of natural resources, environmental studies, economics, sociology, life sciences, political science, geography, and landscape and urban planning.