Program Requirements

B.A. in Sustainability

All required and elective courses that may apply to the major are included in the determination of the grade point average in the major.

Requirements

Required Courses - 31 credits

  • Choose ONE:
    • BIOL 101C – P4 Environmental Issues (3)
    • SUST 102 – LC Issues in Sustainability (3)
  • ECON 105C – P3 Principles of Microeconomics (3)
  • Choose ONE:
    • ENGL 290 – Science, Rhetoric and the Public (3)
    • ENGL 204 – P1 Nature Writing (3)
  • Choose ONE:
    • HIST 296D – History of Rochester (3)
    • HIST 298D – New York State History (3)
  • POSC 211 – Introduction to Public Policy (3)
  • Choose ONE:
    • PSJS 270 – CC Ethics and World Ecology (3)
    • PSJS 275 – P3 Sustainable Futures (3)
    • PHIL 235 – P2 Environmental Ethics (3)
  • STAT 160 – P4 Introduction to Data Science (3)
  • SUST 210 – P4 Systems Thinking (3)
  • SUST 301 – Environmental Science (3)
  • SUST 390 – Introduction to Community Sustainability (1)
  • SUST 490 – Sustainability Experience (3)

Elective Courses - 6 credits

Choose six electives from the following list, with three credits chosen at the 300 level or above. Only one elective may be chosen from any prefix, with the exception of SUST.

  • ANTH 320 – Disaster, Hazard, and Risk (3)
  • AMST/WGST 216 – P2 Feminist Theory (3)
  • BIOL 406 – Animal Natural History (3)
  • BIOL 408 – Ecology (3)
  • BIOL 410 – Conservation Biology (3)
  • CHEM 315 – Analytical Chemistry I (3)
  • ECON 360 – Environmental Economics (3)
  • EDUC 335 – Differentiated Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (3)
  • SPST 255 – Sustainability in Sport (3)
  • SUST 138 – P4 Green Chemistry (3)
  • SUST 310 –Topics in Sustainability (3)

Total: 37 credits

Sustainability


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