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