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What’s your passion for the planet?

Unity College degree programs combine field opportunities and service learning experiences with active, enthusiastic teaching. You get solid foundations for diverse careers, preparing you for a future as open as all outdoors.

Adventure Education Leadership
Prepare to manage an outdoor recreation-related organization. This experiential program includes an Outward Bound semester. Emphasis on administration means you get direct experience in planning, organizing, and directing recreation programs.

Adventure Therapy
Combine outdoor experiences with interpersonal skills to promote wellness and change. Explore leadership, group process and counseling, and a broad range of administrative issues. Includes an Outward Bound semester.

Aquaculture and Fisheries
Learn about freshwater and marine environments, controlled cultivation and harvest, and management techniques for fish and invertebrate populations. Research finfish rearing, shellfish culture, seaweed harvesting, anatomy, physiology, and pathology as you prepare for industry or graduate study.

Conservation Law Enforcement
Integrate science with law enforcement to protect natural resources. Understand biology and gain the skills for applying crime scene investigation techniques to enforce public and commercial conservation laws at the federal, state, and local levels.

Ecology
Study the interrelationships between living organisms and the environment. From a solid background in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, you can pursue many scientific disciplines while remaining committed to improving environmental quality.

Environmental Analysis
Integrate geology and chemistry with biological sciences to address chemical and geological problems in the environment. Prepare to work with environmental consulting firms, laboratories, or regulatory agencies.

Environmental Biology
Pursue this disciplined scientific course of study, including a senior thesis, and choose to serve the environment through a graduate program or careers in field biology or biological research.

Environmental Education
Learn to prepare and deliver experiential programs that foster environmental literacy and encourage environmental protection. Integrate study of teaching methods and the natural world with practice in groups of learners in community and educational settings.

Environmental Humanities
Focus on the environment as a framework to explore the traditional humanities. A broad approach and hands-on experiences prepare you for careers ranging from non-profits and government to the arts, law, communications, and social advocacy, or graduate study.

Environmental Policy
Conserve and protect our natural resources by making a difference in the political arena. Prepare for policy-oriented careers through study of the law, economics, sciences, and politics. Internships and projects with environmental organizations provide real-world experience.

Environmental Science
Investigate sciences such as ecology, chemistry, and geology. Discover current issues in scientific theory and environmental policy. Nurture individual interests and develop skills for careers in law, planning, business, medicine, environmental consulting, and regulation, or go on to
graduate study.

Environmental Writing
Explore self-expression while mastering techniques to advocate for the environment. The liberal arts serve as a base for focused experiences that prepare you for careers in creative writing, journalism, and writing for social or biological sciences.

Forestry
Build your own forestry focus within a liberal arts curriculum, including basic science and math. Put your learning to work on the campus woodlot. Study local area harvesting operations, lumber and paper facilities, private and industrial woodlands, and research forests.


General Studies
Maximize your flexibility for future careers with this three-part program that includes Unity’s environmental stewardship curriculum, the liberal learning requirement, and a self-designed component. Strengthen your ability to respond to changing goals in a changing world.

Landscape Horticulture
Learn to harmonize trees, shrubs, flowers, crops, and other plants with humans, animals, and the physical environment. Unity’s program applies principles of plant science, design, and sustainability – an important emphasis of America’s Environmental College.

Marine Biology
Explore the life of the sea. Examine topics such as oceanography, invertebrate zoology, marine ecology, ichthyology, or marine mammalogy. With this broad introduction, you are prepared for a variety of scientific marine careers or graduate studies.

Parks, Recreation, and Ecotourism
Expand your capacity to serve recreation, tourism, natural resource planning, and environmental organizations. This interdisciplinary program blends natural, social, and management sciences for career flexibility in both the public and private sectors.

Wildlife
Bring your love of wildlife to this flexible program and tailor your study with courses in science, math, wildlife, and liberal arts. Career options are yours to choose!

Wildlife Biology
Start on a career path in wildlife science when you explore ecological and biological principles. Courses in management and research concepts prepare you for the highly recommended pursuit of graduate study.


Wildlife Care and Education
Focus on the care and husbandry of captive wild species. Learn to educate the public on wildlife issues. Study biological sciences, wildlife, education, and interpretation. Then, share your knowledge by working at zoos, aquariums, rehabilitation centers, and other wildlife
education facilities.

Wildlife Conservation
Discover how wildlife conservation relates to habitat, ecosystems, and land or resource use. Study biological and ecological principles in the context of natural resource and wildlife management. Prepare for careers with non-profit and government agencies that specialize in conservation and land management.