Sustainability Undergraduate Minor

Program Requirements

  • Minimum of 18 credit hours
  • Minimum grade of C- required in Core Courses
  • Major in any field except B.A. in Environment & Sustainability
Core Courses9
Introduction to Environment & Sustainability
Introduction to Environment
Select one of the following Core Seminars
Topics in Ethics and Aesthetics
Topics in Development and Economics
Topics in Equity and Society
Select 3 credits from the Options in Environmental Science3
Select 6 credits from two of the three Options lists below (Equity & Society, Development & Economics, Ethics & Aesthetics) that are different from the selected Core Seminar *6
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May also include GES 488 or any Core Course or Option approved for inclusion in the B.A. in Environment & Sustainability.

 Environmental Science Options

Principles of Ecology
Ecology and Evolution Laboratory
Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles
Adv Topics in Animal Ecology
Advanced Tpcs in Plant Ecology
Marine Biology
Ecosys Ecolgy Biogeochem
Plant Diversity
Landscape Ecology Laboratory
Conservation Biology
Landscape Ecology
Aquatic Ecology
The Biosphere
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory
Animal Behavior
Invertebrate Zoology
Entomology
Disease Ecology
Vascular Plant Systematics
Global Change
Vertebrate Zoology
Environmental Physiology
Essentials of Toxicology
Introductory Organic Chemistry
Quantitative Analysis
Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry II
Environmental Hazards Assessment
Geomorphology of North America
Natural Resource Regions of North America
Physical Geography: Landscape Processes
and Physical Geography Laboratory
Weather and Climate
and Climatology Laboratory
The Water Planet
Elements of Hydrology
Geographic Information Systems
Remote Sensing of Environment
Biogeography
Advanced Weather and Climate-Synoptic Climatology

 Equity & Society Options

Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Disaster, Self, and Society
Economic Anthropology
Food and Culture in a Global Context
Environmental Anthropology
Anthropology of Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Medical Anthropology
Anthropology of Infectious Disease
Recreation, Parks, and Health
Urban Geography: Sustainable Land Use
World Population Problems
Sustainable Transport and Mobility
Research Methods in Spatial Science
Sustainable Tourism and Transportation
Sustainable Urban Planning in an Entrepreneurial Environment
Sustainable Regional Planning
National Parks and Protected Areas
Geography of Livable Cities
Global Health
Epidemiology
Environmental Health
Sugar, Soccer, Samba: History of Brazil
American Indians and Nature
United States Environmental History
Environmental Justice
Environmental Law and Policy
Natural Resources Law and Policy
Social Movements
Urban Society
Population Problems
Environmental Sociology
Green Criminology
Disaster, Self, and Society
Sem in Populatn / Urbn Studies

Development & Economics Options

Entrepreneurship in a Sustainable Global Environment
Social Entrepreneurship
Economics of a Global Sustainable Society
Ideas to Sustainable Opportunities: Feasibility Analysis
Experiences in Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Introduction to Sustainable Development
Hospitality Facilities Management
Sustainable Food and Craft Beverage
Sustainable Destination and Experience Management
Sustainable Tourism and Transportation

Ethics & Aesthetics Options

Art, Education, and Social Practice
Art and/as Social Justice
Environmental Communication
Social Movement and Social Justice Rhetorics
American Romanticism
Literature and the Environment
Introduction to Sustainable Design
Global Green: Cultures of Production and/or Consumption
Music and Environment
Ethics and International Affairs
Ethical Issues in Business
Philosophy of the Arts
Religious Traditions and Care of the Earth
The Arts as Social Change: Theory and Practice
Ecofeminism
Topics in Native American and Indigenous Studies