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Environment

Environment Program

Protect, Conserve, Renew

Hurricanes, oil spills, and coastal erosion present unavoidable challenges to southeast Louisiana that foreshadow environmental quandaries elsewhere. Loyola University New Orleans offers its students a front row seat for community debates over the cost, effectiveness, and long-range consequences of engineering regional ecosystems.

The surrounding wetland, lake, river, and gulf estuaries provide unique opportunities for the exploration and study of natural resources. Urban New Orleans also surrounds the campus, offering students a place to explore dynamic cultural traditions of music, art, cuisine, gardens, and architecture celebrating the changing landscape.

Loyola’s Environment Program provides students with a broad and integrated study of the environment from a variety of academic viewpoints. As an interdisciplinary program, the curriculum represents courses from various colleges and departments that focus on understanding the relationships between humans and the natural world from biophysical, sociological, economic, literary, philosophical, and religious perspectives.

Contact the Environment Program

Phone: 504-865-2599
Location: Monroe Hall 571
Mailing Address: 6363 St. Charles Ave., Campus Box 162, New Orleans, LA 70118
Instagram: @loyolaenvironment
Facebook:@Loyola Environment Program
X: @loyolaEnva

For additional information about this program, please contact the Program Director Dr. Craig Hood at chood@loyno.edu or Office Manager Kimberly Kahn at kjkahn@loyno.edu.

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Programming

The Environment program hosts a variety of programs during the academic year designed to engage the entire Loyola community in environmental issues and to help improve sustainability efforts on campus. Environment students have the opportunity to participate and lead programming, gaining valuable field experience, meeting with experts in the industry, and making an impact in the New Orleans community. 

Earth Week

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Environmental Justice Scholars

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Environmental Roundtable Series

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World Cleanup Day

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Loyola Environment Student in Azby Greenhouse

Academic Programs

Loyola's Environment program offers three majors and a minor:

  • BS in Environmental Science
  • BA in Environmental Studies (Humanities)
  • BA in Environmental Studies (Social Science)
  • Minor in Environmental Studies

All programs are designed to provide students with a broad exposure to different perspectives on environmental issues, while also allowing students to specialize within certain disciplines to enhance their knowledge and skills.

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Campus Facilities

As an interdisciplinary program, students in the Environment Program have access to a variety of hands-on learning spaces on campus, including research laboratories and Azby Greenhouse located on the roof of Monroe Hall. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in undergraduate research at off-campus locations like Jean Lafitte National Park, Lake Pontchartrain, Mississippi River Delta Wildlife Refuge, and various locations along the Gulf Coast and elsewhere.

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