The Occidental College Urban & Environmental Policy Department (UEP) helps you understand critical urban and environmental challenges and how to solve them. You’ll learn interdisciplinary and applied approaches that recognize that environmental and urban conditions and solutions are inextricably related.
Earn Your Urban & Environmental Policy Degree From Oxy
As an Urban and Environmental Policy major at Occidental, you’ll build strong skills in analytical and critical thinking, writing, research, policy analysis, and community organizing while studying environmental justice, social change, and urban and environmental inequality. Oxy’s UEP department emphasizes the interconnected nature of urban and environmental challenges, with courses covering housing, transportation, sustainability, and environmental justice.
Through the Occidental Urban and Environmental Policy undergraduate program, faculty and community partners collaborate directly with students on applied projects that address real-world issues across Los Angeles and beyond. This hands-on approach connects academic study with community action on the Occidental campus and throughout southern California, preparing graduates of the UEP program for careers or graduate study in urban planning, environmental sustainability, policy, law, public health, community organizing, and public service.
