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Environmental Studies Major

The major requires 12 courses, up to eight of which may also count toward the core curriculum through appropriate course selection.

Summary of Requirements

First Year Introductory Course

This course provides an overview of environmental problems and their societal causes and effects from natural science, social science, and humanities perspectives, and introduces students to interdisciplinary methods of integrating these disciplines in policy solutions to environmental problems.

1. One course in introductory environmental studies.

First Year/Sophomore Natural Science Courses

The following natural science courses provide foundational knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology. Additional natural science courses (and/or a  minor in biological sciences ) can be taken in order to pursue  a career track in conservation biology (see  Career Tracks  on the program website) . If you have relevant AP or IB exams with a score of 4 or 5 (HL score of 6 or 7 for IBs), such exam credit might count toward the following requirements.

Note that some courses have prerequisites that must be completed. Among science courses, courses with the  NSCI  (Natural Science) and  HPLC  (Honors Program Lincoln Center) subject codes are offered at the Lincoln Center campus, while courses with the  PHYS  (Physics),  CHEM  (Chemistry and Biochemistry),  BISC  (Biological Sciences), and  HPRH  (Honors Program Rose Hill) subject codes are offered at Rose Hill campus.

Environmental Studies Natural Science courses (Physical and Life) all have the ESNS attribute.

2. One Environmental Studies Physical Science course.

Courses in this group have the ESPS attribute.

3. One Environmental Studies Life Science course.

Courses in this group have the ESLS attribute.

4. One Environmental Studies Physical Science or Life Science course.

First year/sophomore social science courses.

The following course provides foundational skills in economics. If you have relevant AP or IB exams with a score of 4 or 5 (HL score of 6 or 7 for IBs), such exam credit might count toward the following requirements.

5. One course in introductory economics.

Upper-Level Courses

The following courses provide advanced knowledge and methods in the policy areas of environmental economics, design, politics and law, history, anthropology, media and communications, and ethics and justice.  Students can make course selections in these areas in order to pursue a particular career track  (see  Career Tracks  on the program website).

6. One course in environmental history and culture.

HIST 3990 North American Environmental History  or  ANTH 4373 Environment and Human Survival  is recommended, but any course listed below may apply to this requirement. ENST 3000 Environmental Research Methods may also be used to fulfill this requirement or (with the permission of the program director) a different upper requirement.

Courses in this group have the ESHC attribute.

7. One course in environmental economics.

ECON 3850 Environmental Economics  or  ECON 4030 Environmental-Economic Policy  is recommended, but any course listed below may apply to this requirement.

Courses in this group have the ESEC attribute.

8. One course in environmental politics and law.

POSC 3307 Environmental Politics  or  POSC 3131 Politics, Urban Health, and Environment  is recommended, but any course listed below may apply to this requirement.

Courses in this group have the ESPL attribute.

9. One course in environmental ethics and justice.

PHIL 3109 Environmental Ethics ,  PHIL 3712 Global Environment and Justice ,  PHIL 3990 Environmental Worldviews and Ethics ,  PHIL 4302 Environmental Policy and Ethics ,  PHIL 4409 Environmental Ethics ,  PJST 3200 Environmental Justice , or  THEO 4008 Religion and Ecology  is recommended, but any course listed below may apply to this requirement.

Courses in this group have the ESEJ attribute.

10. One course in sustainable design.

VART 2050 Designing the City  or  VART 2055 Environmental Design  is recommended, but any course listed below may apply to this requirement.

Courses in this group have the ESSD attribute.

11. One course in research and statistical methods.

ENST 3000 Environmental Research Methods , offered only each fall and taken in the senior year, provides an overview of environmental studies methods and allows students to begin work on their senior thesis, which is completed in ENST 4000 Senior Thesis in the following semester. When taken prior to the senior year to fulfill a different upper requirement, the course must be taken a second time in the senior year to begin work on the senior thesis.

Senior Thesis Capstone

12. senior thesis.

Availability

The major in environmental studies is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill and Fordham College at Lincoln Center. Students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies may major in environmental studies only if they receive the approval of their advising dean and/or department, and their schedules are sufficiently flexible to permit them to take day courses at the Rose Hill or Lincoln Center campuses.

Fordham College at Rose Hill students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum .

Fordham College at Lincoln Center students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the Core Curriculum .

Professional and Continuing Studies students: The requirements above are in addition to those of the PCS Core Curriculum  and any additional electives that may be required to earn a minimum of 124 credits.

You can use the CIP code to learn more about career paths associated with this field of study and, for international students, possible post-graduation visa extensions. Learn more about CIP codes and other information resources .

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Visual Arts

Fordham university, intro to art & engagement (a new class), may 23, 2024 catalina alvarez.

Art of the Interview (an Art & Engagement class)

VART 2222 has new attributes coming: History, American Studies, Theater Production and Design, Urban Studies (and it still has New Media Digital Design and Community Engaged Learning attributes).

A Program of Talks on a Very Curious Old Technology: The Interview (May 22, 2024 @2pm)

May 15, 2024 catalina alvarez.

Moments and Time: 2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

May 9, 2024 vincent stracquadanio.

2024 Senior Thesis Group Show

The Fordham University Galleries Fordham University at Lincoln Center  map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries

The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present,  Moments and Time,   a final group show of the 2024 Senior Thesis Students.

Featuring work by : Booch O’Connell, Sara Lockett, Gabrielle Gowans, Arina Medvedeva, Maureen Segota, Erin Newton, Spencer Balter, Mila Gras, Julia Boberg, Caroline Wong, and Madison Nash.A closing reception will be on  May 15 from 6-8pm.

2024 Summer Session Two Digital Photography [REMOTE]

April 21, 2024 stephan apicella-hitchcock.

As the poster says, “Study Photography—have fun!”  2024 Summer Session 2 Digital Photography [remote] . Feel free to join our merry band of image makers.

Words & Sounds #2: Poet Ama Birch

March 1, 2024 stephan apicella-hitchcock.

Professor Pix: Rose Hill Edition

Dear Visual Arts Majors, Minors, Professors, Administrators, and  Cinema Lovers ,

Each season, we ask professors in the Visual Arts Program to present significant films to the Fordham community. At screenings, we enjoy pizza together, watch a movie, and then discuss it afterward. So, we invite you to step outside your regular streaming queue, experience something different, and join our community of merry cinephiles throughout the semester. The series is called  Professor Pix , and it’s a visual and auditory blast—so join us—and bring your friends!

With  La Dolce Vita  (the Sweet Life), Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini vividly described the journeys of a protagonist through the vortex of 1960s socialites in Rome. With Paolo Sorrentino’s 2013 homage,  The Great Beauty , the meanings and messages are updated for a new generation. On  Wednesday, March 6th, at 6:30 , the  Professor Connections Program  and the  Visual Arts Program  will co-sponsor the first  Rose Hill Edition of Professor Pix!  with Paolo Sorrentino’s  The Great Beauty , selected by Professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.

Sorrentino stated that one of the inspirations for his movie was the statement by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert that he wished to write a novel about nothing. “By ‘nothing,’ he meant the rumors and gossip, the thousand ways we have of wasting time, the things that irritate us or delight us but that are so short-lived that they make us doubt the meaning of life. That ‘nothing’ makes up many people’s entire lives.” Sorrentino also wanted to depict “the great thing about life, the fact that you can be surprised by something that you’d decided was vulgar and wretched, and then suddenly what is vulgar and wretched reveals its own entirely unexpected grace.”

How could a film supposedly about nothing be so captivating and full of grace, you ask? Come find out.

Wednesday, March 6th, at 6:30, Rose Hill Campus, Keating Lower Level Visual Arts Studio B08.

Pizza and camaraderie  courtesy of the Professor Connections Program and Visual Arts.

Open to everyone.

The Muse was Life; the Medium Was Film

February 14, 2024 vincent stracquadanio.

The Muse was Life; the Medium Was Film: Films by our charming resident contrarian Ross McLaren and his students

Fordham University’s Susan  Lipani Gallery

February 12 –February 29, 2024 Opening Reception: February 16, 6 pm

Fordham University at Lincoln Center  map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 Map to the Lipani Gallery fordhamuniversitygalleries

The Fordham University Visual Arts Program would like to announce this memorial exhibition,  The Muse was Life; the Medium Was Film: Films by our charming resident contrarian Ross McLaren and his students  in our Lincoln Center Visual Arts Complex Susan Lipani gallery. Ross McLaren died in November of 2023, days short of his 70th birthday, after suffering a stroke earlier in the summer. Ross was a Canadian-born filmmaker, curator, colleague, teacher, and mentor living in New York who taught at Fordham University since 1986. This memorial exhibition highlights Ross’ dedication to the film medium and his influence on generations of Fordham University film & video students. We miss his presence and take solace in the many memories he leaves behind. If Ross were here today, he would be holding court, telling stories, quick to share a toast, and likely one of the last to leave. There was only one Ross, unique as each of his films. In life, there is an endless continuation of frames; we thank Ross for sharing the ones he pulled from it. Three monitors in the gallery space present Ross’ work. On monitor #1 is his infamous 1977 (27.75 min) film  Crash ‘n’ Burn , shot on 16mm black & white film with an overdubbed soundtrack, documenting the Toronto, Ontario, Canada punk rock scene. On monitor #2 is  Sex Without Glasses ,1983, (12.75 min), a color, 16 mm film “starring a preverbal somnambulist floating between word and object.” –RM. And on monitor #3 is a selection of films that Ross admired from other filmmakers, including a range from Chris Marker’s  La Jetée  to cartoons about Porky the Pig. Monitors #4 and #5 display nine short works (eight by Ross’ students over the years, one by a colleague): Spencer Balter, 5 am  Thoughts at 3 in the Afternoon ; Masha Bychkova,  Gag ; Alex Chambers,  Cameraless Animations ; Matt Gioia,  Quick Sand ; Liam Kenny,  Joy, and Love for All Things in the Garden ; Luke Momo,  The Stamp Collector ; Booch O’Connell,  Affirmations ; Glen Redpath (friend),  Ross’s Rooftop Garden ; Koty Vooys,  Leaving NYC . Fully circling the gallery and connecting Ross with his students are his used Super-8 film cartridges, a further reminder of Ross’ continued love of the film medium since the early days when he founded and was the first director of the Funnel Film Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A memorial event in the Susan Lipani Gallery will occur on Friday,  February 16, at 6 pm. The Visual Arts Program would like to thank the Filmmakers’ Coop, who provided the 16mm print of  Crash ‘n’ Burn  and a digitized version of  Sex Without Glasses , and special thanks to FCLC Dean Auricchio and FAS Dean Hume for funding the memorial event. Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Joseph Lawton arranged this memorial with the assistance of Gallery Programmer Vincent Stracquadanio. Anibal Pella-Woo and Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock oversaw digitizing  Crash ‘n’ Burn . Student films were collected and organized by Slav Velkov, Colin Cathcart, Eamon Redpath, and Glen Redpath, who assembled the list of Ross’ favorite movies, and Wilson Duggan installed the exhibition.

Link to the exhibition

For more information, contact  S tephan Apicella-Hitchcock

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From the Archives III: Photographs by Barbara Morgan

January 30, 2024 Vincent Stracquadanio

Barbara Morgan,  Martha Graham, Letter to the World, Swirl,  1940, gelatin silver print, courtesy of the Fordham University Library Archives and Special Collections

Fordham University’s  Ildiko Butler Gallery

January 29–February, 25, 2024

Opening Reception: February 8, 6 pm

Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Head of Visual Arts; Linda Loschiavo, Director of Libraries; and Gabriella DiMeglio, Archives and Special Collections Librarian

From the Archives: Photographs by Barbara Morgan  brings together twelve black and white photographs from the Fordham University Archives and Special Collections housed at the Rose Hill Walsh Family Library. This exhibition is the third installment of the  From the Archives  series, which aims to highlight the rich and varied nature of Fordham University’s collections.

Barbara Morgan (1900–1992) represents a significant figure in the history of photography, particularly as the scope of her practice included very different photography styles. Half the works on display are samples from her studies of American modern dancers, and half represent her investigations in Russian Constructivist-inspired experimental photomontage.

In Barbara Morgan’s 1941 book,  Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs , Graham comments,  “It is rare that even an inspired photographer possesses the demonic eye which can capture the instant of dance and transform it into timeless gesture… For to me, Barbara Morgan through her art reveals the inner landscape that is a dancer’s world.”  The timing and precision required to record the essence of a dance taking place over time and transform it into a singular, iconic photograph is extraordinary and forms a counterpoint to Morgan’s photomontage experiments, which consciously bring together different images into dialogue pertaining to constructed environments and social issues. Moreover, the photomontage technique was viewed as radical and unpopular in the United States when Morgan began making the works in this exhibition.

Occasionally, as a curator one has a specific idea for an exhibition—the themes, the participants, and the message. Alternately, there are moments where one explores with no preconceived notions and gradually, elliptically, hones in on a show. The Fordham University Library is a rich collection filled with unforeseen gems waiting for researchers and is the perfect place to engage in exploration and analysis. Furthermore, the staff that cares for our collection and facilitates such undertakings are exceptionally knowledgeable about what we have and, significantly, supportive of those interested in the unknown.

In an age where many read PDFs on devices, levels removed from the authentic experience of turning a book page, nothing is more refreshing and surprising than holding items from a different century in their hands. Archives have a slightly dusty but not unpleasant smell and a palpable feeling of history and mystery. That one doesn’t always know what they will encounter on the next shelf or in that box over there underneath another box, are not problems to be solved, but rather encouragements to engage with the spirit of inquiry. Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock  

Linda, LoSchiavo, MLIS, MA, Director of Fordham University Libraries:

My introduction to the Barbara Morgan photographs came in the late 1980s when I first saw them being exhibited in Butler Hall at Marymount College, in Tarrytown, NY. Fordham’s relationship with Marymount had begun in 1976, when the University began to offer several graduate programs on Marymount property. The Morgan photos were among the more than 150 works of art donated to the College by an alum, Mary Furey, Class of 1968. The gift also included works by Salvador Dali, Marcel Marceau, as well as other 20th century American and European photographs and prints. The College was committed to displaying works of art on the campus, so items from the collection were dispersed to various campus locations.  Unfortunately, this well-intentioned gesture resulted in the bulk of the collection being lost and/or irretrievable by the time Fordham ended its relationship with Marymount and sold the College to EF Education in 2008.  The remains of the collection are now in Fordham University’s Special Collections, and consist primarily of the Barbara Morgan dance photos.

Gabriella DiMeglio, MLIS, Archives and Special Collections Librarian, Fordham University:

One of the core principles in archival work is the balance between preservation and access. When materials enter the archives to be preserved and protected for future generations, our access to them inevitably decreases. Archival materials can go untouched and unseen for decades at a time, often for the simple reason that people don’t know they exist. The goal with this series is to highlight some of Fordham’s more hidden gems — providing the public of today with access to these materials while also prolonging and preserving that same access for future generations.  

The previous exhibitions from the series are:

From the Archives II: Photographs by William Fox from the Fordham University Archives and Special Collections , 2014. This exhibition brought together seventeen contemporary digital prints from the original negatives housed in the Archives at the Rose Hill campus’ Walsh Family Library. William Fox was a professional photographer who worked for Fordham University freelance for over twenty years, generating photographs that span a range of topics from commencements to classrooms and from campus architecture to student life. The images represent the beginnings of Fordham University’s self-awareness, from a publicity and photographic point of view, documenting the growth of Fordham University over an extended period and giving shape to aspects that the university valued up to and through the tumultuous times of World War Two. Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock.  Link

From the Archives I: Half-Frames , 2013. Half-Frames brought together twenty-one prints made from the original color transparencies held in the personal archive of J. Joseph Lynch, S.J., a mathematics and seismology professor at Fordham University from 1950 to 1967. The photographs highlighted his spontaneous approach to documenting travels, events, people, and places. The criteria for image selection stemmed from our mutual enthusiasm for his images, which resonated with contemporary directions in photography from the period, such as the snapshot aesthetic and interests in the vernacular within the medium of photography. Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Anibal Pella-Woo.  Link

Words & Sounds : Poetry Reading and Performance 7pm on January 26th by Theo LeGro + AUDG

January 23, 2024 vincent stracquadanio.

WORDS & SOUNDS

Poetry Reading and Performance by Theo LeGro and AUDG

Fordham University’s  Lipani Gallery 7pm January 26, 2024 Fordham University at Lincoln Center  map 113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue New York, NY 10023 Map to the Lipani Gallery fordhamuniversitygalleries

The Fordham University Department of Theatre and Visual Arts is pleased to announce the inaugural Words & Sounds event featuring FCLC Alum poet Theo LeGro and FCLC Alum musician AUDG on Friday, January 26, at 7 pm in the Visual Arts Complex Susan Lipani Gallery. There will be light refreshments, poetry, music, bumper stickers, and community. This event is hosted in the Susan Lipani Gallery by the Hayden Hartnett Project Space and has been made possible by Professor Connections funding through FCLC Dean Auricchio. The second installment of Words & Sounds will feature poet Ama Birch on March 7 at 6 pm, with support from Fordham’s Center for Community Engaged Learning.

For more information, contact  S tephan Apicella – Hitchcock

The Senior Thesis Exhibitions Ildiko Butler Gallery and Susan Lipani Gallery

The Fordham University Department of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the start of the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibitions.

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