2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog

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Sustainability Minor

Expected Outcomes:

Each student will be able to:

1. Define sustainability.

2. Explain how sustainability relates to their lives and their values, and how their actions impact issues of sustainability.

3. Be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.

4. Explain how systems are interrelated – social/political/ecological/religious/environmental.

5. Learn how to apply concepts of sustainability to their campus and community.

Courses

General Education

Note: The Core should include either

BIO 115General Biology I for Majors

4
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 322Green Chemistry

4
ENG 421North American Nonfiction Nature Writing

3
HIS 430American Environmental History

3
HIS 433American Environment in Film

3
REL 325Concepts of Ethics

3
REL 372Social Ethics

3

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.

Total Credit Hours: 18