专攻环境科学和公共政策旨在对当前的环境问题进行多学科介绍。尽管ESPP集中课程的所有学生都参加了生物学，化学，地球与环境科学，经济学，政府和数学课程，但集中课程为学生提供了一个专门研究与环境相关的自然科学或社会科学领域的机会。这些课程的知识将在三年级的研讨班中应用，这些研讨班被认为是集中力的重要组成部分。希望以优异的成绩毕业的学生应撰写一篇论文，运用从他们的课程经验中获得的技能和知识从事对特定环境问题的研究。
The concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary introduction to current problems of the environment. While all students in the ESPP concentration take courses in biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, economics, government, and mathematics, the concentration offers students an opportunity to specialize in a specific area of either natural or social science relating to the environment. The knowledge from these courses is applied during the junior year in seminars envisaged as a central integrating component of the concentration. Students wishing to graduate with honors are expected to write a thesis applying skills and knowledge gained from their course experience in the pursuit of research on a specific environmental issue.