The Sustainability Studies Minor consists of 6 credits of required courses (two 3-credit courses) and 9-12 restricted electives (three 3-4 credit courses), for a total of 15-18 credits. Students may select various combinations of three elective courses from a range of supporting disciplines. The requirements are as follows:

1. Core course - SUST 3003, Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet (3 cr.)

Credit will also be given for:

ESPM 3480 Topics in Natural Resources/POL 4210 Topics in Political Theory: Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet

ESPM 3003/GLOS 3304 Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet.

This course has been offered under these various names for the past two years but begins this fall under its new designator of SUST 3003. It will be offered Fall of 2008 as well as Spring of 2009.

2. Capstone Course - SUST 4004, Sustainable Communities (3 cr.)

Credit will also be given for: ESPM 3480/ARCH 4150, Special Topics: Sustainable Communities (3 cr.)

This course was offered for the first time in Spring 2008. SUST 4004 will be offered again in Spring 2009.

3. Electives (9-12 cr.) Choose 1 course from the following:

Agro/AnSc 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (3 cr.) Agro/Ent 5321 - Ecology of Agricultural Systems (3 cr.)
EEB/FR 5146 - Science and Policy of Global Environmental Change (3 cr.)
ESPM 3603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis (3cr.)
ESPM 3021/5021 - Ecological Vegetation Management: A Consulting Approach (3 cr.)
ESPM 3245/5245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy (3 cr.)
ESPM 3251/LAS 3251 - Natural Res. in Sustainable International Development (3 cr.)
FW 5455 - Sustainable Aquaculture (3 cr.)
HSci 3244 - History of Ecology and Environmentalism (3 cr.)
ID 3592 - Social Dimensions of Environmental Change
Phil 3301 - Environmental Ethics (4 cr.)
Pol 4210/ESPM 5480 - Population, Equity, and Environmental Change (3-4 cr.)

AND

Choose 2 courses from the following, but no more than 1 from each category:

A. Economics & Policy

ApEc/Econ 3611 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3 cr.)
ApEc 5611 - Economic Aspects of Environmental Management (3 cr.)
ApEc 5991 - Special Topics and Independent Study in Applied Economics
AFEE 5361 - World Development Problems (3 cr.)
CE 5212/PA 5232 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment (3cr.)
CE 5214 - Transportation Systems Analysis (3cr.)
ESPM 3261W - Economics and Natural Resource Management (4 cr.)
ESPM 3602/5602 - Regulatory and Ethical Frameworks
ESPM 3241W - Natural Resources Policy: History, Creation, and Implementation (3cr.)
ESPM 3604/5604 - Environmental Management Systems (3 cr.)

B. Social Science & Humanities

Anth 3041 - Ecological Anthropology (3 cr.)
Anth 3212 - Globalization, Markets, and Inequality (3 cr.)
Anth 4053 - Economy, Culture, and Critique (3 cr.)
Anth 4069 - Environmental Archaeology (3 cr.)
EngL 3501 - Public Discourse: Coming to Terms With the Environment (3 cr.)
ESPM 3011W - Ethics and Leadership in Resource Management (3 cr.)
Geog 3379/GloS 3303 - Environment and Development in the Third World (3 cr.)
Soc 3613W - Food, Culture, and Society (3 cr.)
Soc 4305 - Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict (3 cr.)
Soc 4311 - Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature (3 cr.)

C. Biophysical Sciences

BIOL 3407/3407W - Ecology (3cr.)
EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society (3 cr.)
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology (3 cr.)
FW 4102 - Principles of Conservation Biology (3 cr.)
Geog 3401 - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (4 cr.)
Geo 3005 - Earth Resources (3 cr.)
Hort 4021 - Landscape Design and Implementation (4 cr.)
Hort 4072 - Growing Plants Organically: What It Means To Be Green (3 cr.)
ID 3591 - Adaptive Ecosystem Management (4 cr.)
PlPa 3002 - Air Pollution, People, and Plants: The Science and the Ethics (3 cr.)

D. Architecture & Technology

Arch 4561 - Architecture and Ecology (4 cr.)
BBE 4733 Renewable Energy Technologies (3 cr.)
CE 3501 - Environmental Engineering (3 cr.)
CE 4561 - Solid Hazardous Wastes (3 cr.)
CHEN 5551 - Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies (3 cr.)
ESPM 3601/DHA 3482 - Our Home, Our Environment (3 cr.)
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and its Biological and Physical Context (3 cr.)
LA 5712 - Infrastructure, Natural Sys., and the Space of Inhabited Landscapes (3 cr.)
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment

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Note: The electives list is under review and will be revised once a year. Faculty and students that would like to submit other courses for consideration should email their requests to the Sustainability Initiative Office.