Chesapeake Regional Studies
Interdisciplinary Concentration
The Chesapeake Bay is central to the history, culture, and economy of the mid-Atlantic region, and it is an attractive educational resource for exploration and integration of liberal arts studies. The concentration in Chesapeake Regional Studies allows students to assemble a coherent array of courses based on student interests that might include science courses emphasizing field and laboratory study, and humanities and social sciences courses.
To complete the concentration, students should consult with the director to select an appropriate group of four courses. The first course should be the cross-disciplinary "Society, Ecology, and the Chesapeake Bay," offered as a special topics course. The three additional courses counted toward the concentration should be from at least two academic divisions. Recommended courses include the following:
Division of Humanities
- ART 322. The Arts in America
- PHL 303. Environmental Ethics
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- BIO 104. Society, Ecology, and the Chesapeake Bay
- BIO 206. Ecology
- BIO 309. Marine and Estuarine Biology
- ENV 394. Biodiversity and Natural History of Birds of the Chesapeake Bay
Division of Social Sciences
- HIS 313. 17th- and 18th-Century America
- ECN 217. Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- ANT 305. Doing Anthropology