Agroecology integrates environmental science, ecology and communities to grow food in a way that sustains people and the planet. It is a science of collaboration involving working with people wherever agriculture, conservation, and policymaking converge.
Landscape design is an art and a science that supports both natural ecosystems and human livelihoods. Landscape designers create multifunctional and sustainable landscapes to improve environmental and social systems across urban to rural settings.
The flexible major offers two concentrations (Agroecology and Landscape Design) as pathways to students' career goals. In both concentrations, students gain an understanding of ecological systems through hands-on coursework, research, internships and engaging with local and global communities
Grounded in agricultural and horticultural sciences, the B.Sc. curriculum teaches students how to help transform current agri-food and land management systems with the use of ecologically sound and socially just methods.