Investigation of Undergraduate Students’ Environmental Attitudes

Environmental education has been viewed as an important way to educate students about
environmental issues beginning from pre-school to higher education. This study is a part
of this field- namely, undergraduate environmental education. The purpose of the study is to explore undergraduate students’ attitudes towards environment at the end of the course “Environment, Human, and Society”. In direction of this basic aim, environmental
attitudes of university students were examined according to the gender and faculty type
factors. The research was applied at Pamukkale University in School of Foreign
Languages during the spring term of 2008-2009 education years. A questionnaire
consisting of 2 parts titled “personal information” and “measuring attitude towards
environment” was utilized as the means of collecting data. As a result of the study, it could be concluded that undergraduate students had positive attitudes toward the environment
as regard to their gender and faculty types. It was emphasized that female students were
more sensitive toward environment than male students. At the end, some advices were
given in relation with environmental researches.