The Environmental Studies major at Yale-NUS College seeks to combine academic breadth and analytic depth to foster deep learning of and critical engagement with a variety of environmental challenges to human and planetary well-being. Our goal is to prepare students to be knowledgeable, resourceful, curious, creative, and reflexive agents of solutions or adaptation in the emerging Anthropocene era.
Learn about our Special Programme with the Yale School of the Environment.
Alumni Voices
PETER LEWIS (CLASS OF 2018)
Environmental Studies allows me to apply my love of science towards urgent and thought-provoking problems of our times. I am fascinated how this field integrates diverse disciplines, challenging me to examine my role as member of a global ecosystem.
Alumni Voices
ALAINE JOHNSON (CLASS OF 2018)
It seems crucial to apply an interdisciplinary focus to tackle issues currently shaping our world. I am amazed by how societies globally have adapted to diverse environments, more so of humans as a driving force of global environmental change.
Alumni Voices
CRYSTAL YONG (CLASS OF 2019)
Brought up acquainted with the outdoors, I developed a fondness for nature and care for it a lot.I am very interested in the sciences, and seek to be well-versed in thinking holistically about the environment both as a scientist and social scientist.
