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Sustainability Minor

Expected Outcomes:

  • Each student will be able to:
  • Define sustainability.
  • Explain how sustainability relates to their lives and their values, and how their actions impact issues of sustainability.
  • Be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.
  • Explain how systems are interrelated – social/political/ecological/religious/environmental.
  • Learn how to apply concepts of sustainability to their campus and community.

Courses

General Education

Note: The Core should include either

BIO 111General Biology I

4
Or
BIO 115General Biology I for Majors

4
BIO 112General Biology II

4
Or
BIO 116General Biology II for Majors

4
Or
CHE 111General Chemistry I

4
CHE 112General Chemistry II

4

Required Courses (3)

SUST 101Introduction to Sustainability

3

Upper-level Sustainability Electives (15)

Choose from the following:

BIO 310Biology Seminar

2
BIO 317Marine Biology

4
BIO 318Conservation Biology

3
BIO 341Ecology

4
CHE 322Environmental Chemistry

3
ENG 421North American Nonfiction Nature Writing

3
HIS 430American Environmental History

3
HIS 433American Environment in Film

3
REL 325Introduction to Ethics

3
REL 372Social Ethics

3
REL 391Religious & Philosophical Perspectives on the Environment

3

Total Credit Hours: 18

Additional courses on offer will be added based on student needs and as additional programs request to offer a sustainability-based course. Special Topics courses may be included as well.