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B.Sc in Environment Studies

Course Overview

  • The course on Environment Studies impart knowledge to an aspirant about coordinating environmental efforts like investigating problems, finding solutions for it and working on it, in order to address the environmental crisps that are harming the world.
  • The study in Environment Studies includes wide areas from deforestation, soil erosion to global warming and landfills.
  • Moreover, the Environment Studies course enables candidates to know the impact and interaction of activities done by humans on nature.
  • In today’s time, the Environment Studies course is opted by ample students as with time, generation understands the importance of nature and need to preserve it for future.
  • Aspirants can opt for this course in both graduation and post-graduation.
  • The word ‘environment’ is used in different ways. We talk of the ‘home environment’, the ‘work environment’, the ‘social environment’.
  • We use the word to describe our physical surroundings, made up of air, trees, grass. This latter use is the subject of this book.
  • Our concern must be for the world as a whole, its ‘air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their inter-relations.
  • By ‘environmental Studies’ we mean keeping control of our activities so that we do what we can to conserve these physical resources and to avoid polluting them.
  • We can apply these controls in our life domestically, in what we buy and what we throw away, but it is usually in our work where the environmental impact of what we do is greatest.
  • Such impact of industrial activity that resources are becoming depleted and environmental damage is increasing.
  • we are concerned with control at the level of the business, whether that be a chemical works or a refinery, engineering, printing, transport, or even office based businesses or teaching where the environmental impacts may be smaller but are still real.

Course Highlight

  • Demonstrate disciplinary knowledge from ecological, social, physical, economic, legal fields; Appreciate the ethical, cross cultural and historical context of environmental issues and the links between human and natural systems
  • Apply systems concepts and methodologies to analyse and understand interactions between social and environmental processes; Demonstrate appropriate and advanced technical skills in investigating, analysing and synthesizing information, problems, concepts and theories within environment science
  • Clearly communicate complex analyses, interpretations and significance effectively in writing and orally to varied audiences ranging from scientific to policy and the general public; be proficient in contemporary communication tools
  • Collaborate in teams with peers and mentors and work with others in diverse group settings, developing flexibility and leadership skills. Ability to acquire knowledge and skills, including ‘learning how to learn’ for meeting changing demands of work place.

Program Outcomes

  • Apply key terminology, facts, concepts, principles, historical perspectives and theories concerning environmental Studies and global sustainability toward solving environmental challenges.
  • Manage environmental-related risk from an organization’s operation.
  • Identify environmental hazards affecting air, water and soil quality.
  • Develop controls to reduce or eliminate risk.
  • Employ project Studies processes and analytical tools to achieve a sustainable outcome to environmental problems.
  • Conduct environmental research and communicate risk from an organization’s operations.
  • Research scientific, engineering, economic, and congressional information for statutory, regulatory and sustainable approaches to environmental problems.

Scope of Program

The labour market in India for natural science or environment Studies graduates was not extremely rewarding a few years back but rising degrees of contamination, pollution in the environment, the uncontrolled human population as well as development, inappropriate waste administration in Indian urban areas has driven the government to handle these environmental issues. This has therefore triggered tremendous growth of job opportunities in the region of environment sciences. Currently the demand of environment Studies course pass outs is mainly from civic agencies, government-backed research centres and NGOs.

Indirect demand has gone upward in the field of journalism, teaching and many other such professions. There are a few MNCs as well which hire environmental Studies graduates who build sustainable buildings. The broad categories in which the opportunities can be classified are –

  • Departments/ Organizations
  • Industries, distilleries, fertilizer plants, mines, refineries, textile mills etc.
  • Research and Social Development
  • Forest and Wildlife Studies
  • NGOs , Colleges and Universities
  • Pollution Control Boards
  • Urban Planning
  • Water Resources and Agriculture

Key Features

  • Provide students with a systematic understanding of the scientific bases and socio-economic contexts of varied environmental issues ranging from aspects of climate change, global warming, pollution, to energy needs, urban planning and resource depletion
  • Provide students with conceptual understanding of physical, natural and biological processes and cycles of earth and its environment
  • Enable students to critically evaluate issues related to environmental governance, law and sustainability
  • Equip students with interdisciplinary tools and skills of analysis and evaluation through field studies in biodiversity and geology, analysing remote sensing and GIS data, and laboratory-oriented chemistry and ecology projects
  • Cultivate in students a scientific as well as socio-economic understanding of global and regional environmental issues
  • Develop in students an understanding of the relationship between humans and nature using relevant theoretical and practical frameworks to explore fundamental issues such as food security, water security, agro-ecosystems, etc.
  • Enable students to undertake qualitative and quantitative research studies and to prepare them to collect, synthesize and analyse varied types of data

Syllabus

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Internship

Environment Studies internship tasks include planning, promotion, logistics, client relations, and on-the-day support. Having job experience and a global perspective is an invaluable asset in the field of events, and will set you apart from other graduates.

Candidates can be employed as follows:

  • Environmental Scientist
  • Environmental Consultant
  • Environmental Science Manager
  • Lecturer
  • Wildlife Film-maker
  • Environment Journalists
  • Conservation Hydrologist

Placement Opportunities

Bachelor of Environment Studies students can lead to a wide range of career opportunities in the below Sectors.

  • Industries
  • Social Development.
  • Research and Development.
  • Forest and Wildlife Studies.
  • NGOs.
  • Pollution Control Boards.
  • Urban Planning.
  • Water Resources and Agriculture.

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Eligibility

An Environment Studies course is available at undergraduate level. If an individual is looking for an Environment Studies course at the undergraduate level then student must meet the following eligibility criteria:

  • Students must have completed their 10+2 from a recognized board or equivalent.
  • Students must have scored a minimum of 50% marks during their secondary education.
  • It is not compulsory but having a Science background in 10+2 gives a wider scope of options for Environment Studies courses.

Course Duration

6 Semesters spread over 3 Years.

Fee Structure

Course fee INR 5.50 Lakh per Year

Mode of Payment

  • After the step of successful document verification and allocation of seat to the desired course, the following modes of payment can be adopted.
  • Initial payment of first Semester Tuition Fees (50%) needs to be paid through either RTGS/NEFT/IMPS mode.
  • The students can also pay in the form of a Demand Draft drawn in the name of the course or through cheque payment.
  • The students shall be issued online receipts after the deposition of the Tuition fees (Semester 1)
  • In case of any discrepancies, the students should visit the Centralised Admissions Office