Minor

Minor in Sustainability

A grade point average of 2.00 is required for all courses taken in residence that may be applied to the minor.

Requirements

Introductory Courses – 9 credits

  • Choose ONE:
    • BIOL 101C – P4 Environmental Issues (3)
    • SUST 102 – LC Issues in Sustainability (3)
  • PHIL 235 – P2 Environmental Ethics (3)
  • ECON 105C – P3 Principles of Microeconomics (3)

Electives – 9 credits

All of the following courses either provide skills that are vital to advanced critical thinking in sustainability issues or are an in-depth integration of sustainability to a specific field.

Choose THREE electives from the following group. Each elective must carry a different course prefix (with the exception of SUST), with at least one at the 200 level or above.

  • AMST/WGST 216 – P2 Feminist Theory (3)
  • ANTH 320 – Disaster, Hazard, and Risk (3)
  • BIOL 408 – Ecology (3)
  • BIOL 410 – Conservation Biology (3)
  • CHEM 315 – Analytical Chemistry (3)
  • ECON 360 – Environmental Economics (3)
  • EDUC 335 – Differentiated Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Science,  Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) (3)
  • ENGL 156 – LC Ecocomposition (3)
  • ENGL 204 – P1 Nature Writing (3)
  • ENGL 290 – Science, Rhetoric, and Public (3)
  • HIST 108 – CC History of Hunting (3)
  • MATH 170 – P4 Mathematical Modeling (3)
  • POSC 211 – Intro Public Policy (3)
  • PSJS 270 – CC Ethics & World Ecology (3)
  • PSJS 275 – P3 Sustainable Futures (3)
  • SPST 255 – Sustainability in Sport (3)
  • SUST 138 – P4 Green Chemistry (3)
  • SUST 210 – P4 Systems Thinking (3)
  • SUST 301 – Environmental Science (3)
  • SUST 310 – Topics in Sustainability (3)

Capstone Course – 1 credit

  • SUST 400 – Sustainability Minor Capstone (1)

Total: 19 credits

Sustainability


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