BS in Environmental Science

Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College's (NHSC) Environmental Science Program focuses on integrating local Fort Berthold environmental issues with Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara cultures. The program provides a solid foundation in a range of specialties, including water, air, soil quality, wildlife, range, fisheries management, toxicology, and resource conservation, allowing you to work in a wide range of natural resource-related areas. The program will prepare you for employment in fish and wildlife management, recreation management, resource management, environmental quality, and range/grasslands management. You will study a range of specialties but specialize in one field by choosing your electives, student internship, and field research.

Career paths available with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences include:

• Amenity horticulturist

• Commercial horticulturist

• Environmental consultant

• Environmental education officer

• Environmental engineer

• Environmental manager

• Horticultural consultant

• Horticultural therapist

The Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) is tribally chartered by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation headquarters at New Town, North Dakota. NHSC is tribally controlled by a Board of Directors, which consists of seven members. The College was founded May 2, 1973, as the agency responsible for higher education on the Fort Berthold Reservation.

The values of NHS College are modeled in a similar structure to the earth lodge, the common home of the Nueta, Hidatsa, and Sahnish people. Unity, our key value, is in the center – similar to the central position of the fire pit in earth lodges. Just as a fire radiates energy, so too does Unity usher in the surrounding principles of Spirituality, People, Culture, and Future. These four domains stand in the position where posts of the earth lodge support its roof.