The growing demand for Environmental Education as a key tool in the creation of sustainable societies and their institutionalization at all levels of education has attracted more and more attention to stud ies on its insertion in High School (curriculum, epistemological, etc.), with the aim to prepare future teachers to perform the role of guide in this task, not only reducing this subject to the physical and biological environ ment, but also considering economic, social and cultural issues. Thus, in this study, we verified how much the subject "environment" is inserted in the training of teachers in the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Projects are assessed the Educational Policy of Undergraduate Courses of the Higher Education Institution.
Environmental education; environment; undergraduate courses