The design of this programme will enable students to appreciate why and how perspectives from three broad disciplines: natural science, social science and humanities,  emerged as three distinct fields of scholarship, each with an ‘environmental’ prefix. The required courses seek to establish a broad landscape of Environmental Studies while responding to present-day challenges, thereby enabling students to recognize and appreciate the ‘messiness’ of the field. Students will also take a mandatory course on Communication in Environmental Studies, where they will focus on comprehension, writing, artistic expression, and critique. Along with the Environmental history course, historical perspectives will also emerge through required courses like Past, Present, and Predicted Environments, Ethics and the Environment, and Sustainability and Climate Change. Tools and Method course will prepare students to execute research for their Capstone. Ethical questions and deliberation are embedded in many required courses and electives, enabling students to understand why an ethical lens is required to view environmental issues in the 21st century. Several courses are likely to have field immersions and practicum, subject to how soon on-campus learning is restored. These offerings will provide a holistic picture of theory, primary debates, and environmental tensions around the world, in addition to a hands-on exposure to underlying research methods through practicum. 

After completing the required classes, students will choose electives that facilitate specialisation. Electives will aid disciplinary grounding, for example, in the history, politics, science, economics, data science, chemistry, or philosophy of the environment, and enable further interdisciplinary exploration through courses like Economics of the Environment, Conservation Studies, and Political Ecology of Biodiversity Conservation. Students will distill the diversity to which they have been exposed within the field to produce their capstone thesis on any topic within Environmental Studies during their final year.