# Academics

**Source**: https://espp.fas.harvard.edu/pages/academics
**Parent**: https://college.harvard.edu/academics/liberal-arts-sciences/concentrations

The concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary introduction to current problems of the environment.\
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While all students in the ESPP concentration take courses in biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, economics, government, and mathematics, the concentration offers students an opportunity to specialize in a specific area of either natural or social science relating to the environment. The knowledge from these courses is applied during the junior year in seminars envisaged as a central integrating component of the concentration.\
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Students wishing to graduate with honors are expected to write a thesis applying skills and knowledge gained from their course experience in the pursuit of research on a specific environmental issue.