CEGU
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The CEGU undergraduate major prepares students to understand and confront the wide-ranging societal, historical, and spatial dimensions of contemporary planetary environmental crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and other forms of large-scale socio-environmental transformation. Such issues are explored in diverse spaces, including cities and metropolitan regions; zones of extraction, agriculture, energy production and waste; dispersed settlement spaces and village ecologies; rangeland, forest and jungle landscapes; remote wildlands; and coastlines, rivers, watersheds, and oceans. The curriculum emphasizes a plurality of theoretical approaches to the histories and geographies of socio-environmental transformation, underscoring the contested character of environmental knowledge in a polarized and turbulent world order.
CEGU is also home to additional undergraduate initiatives including Expositions Magazine↗—a student-written magazine presenting environmental and urban scholarship, creative writing, and visual art—and the Frizzell Learning and Speaker Series—a student-led endowed lecture series. CEGU also regularly hosts student activities and events, internships, and discussions with alumni, community leaders and faculty.