The Environmental Analysis (EA) program has intellectual roots reachingback to the early 1990s.  Beginning as a challenge to the prevalentparadigm of scientific reductionism and departmental isolation, earlyenvironmental discussions at Pomona College criticized thepervasiveness of unquestioned assumptions within academia.  Anespecially powerful example was the belief that global warming could beanalyzed and addressed within the existing set of academic departments.

At Pomona the discussion of an environmental major came against thevery ingrained beliefs of the time – that environmental topics couldonly be properly addressed at the graduate level and that environmentalstudies was a ‘hippie’ or ‘touchy-feely’ pursuit...

The EA program functions academically through a network of affiliated faculty.  Currently there is only one official EA faculty member, the EA coordinator Professor Richard Hazlett.  He relies heavily on the support, advice and intellect of the nine EA track advisors.  Track advisors are Pomona faculty who have committed to manage an EA track on a volunteer basis and are often faculty members that have been an integral part of the Pomona push for environmental education since the mid-1990s.

 

However, the majority of the courses taken by EA students are taught not by track advisors but by environmentally-interested faculty across the five Claremont Colleges.  These faculty members support the EA program indirectly by offering environmental themed and focused courses in their respective disciplines...