Sustainability

Description

The Sustainability program focuses on the concepts and principles of ecology/environment, economy, and society in an interdisciplinary context and is designed to provide students skills and knowledge with which to understand and address the environmental, social, political, economic, and ethical issues relevant to sustainable progress.

Admission to the Program

Any undergraduate student can declare this major.

Program Requirements

General Education Requirements (31-40 credits)

Students in the Sustainability major pursue a Bachelor of Science degree, and must complete its requirements.

The major requires a minimum of 41 credits of core coursework.

Academic Planning Seminar (1 or 3 credits)

Major Required Coursework (41 Credits)

• ECN 100 Contemporary Economic Issues (3 Credits)
• SUS 261 Science and Sustainability (3 Credits)
• ENV 202 Environmental Science (4 Credits)
• SUS 262 Sustainability and Society (3 Credits)
• ENV 303 Ecology (4 Credits)
• SUS 304 Sustainable Development and Planning (3 Credits)
• One of the following courses:
  • ANT 331 Environmental Anthropology (3 Credits)
  • SOC 307 Environmental Sociology (3 Credits)
  • HST 308 American Environmental History (3 Credits)
  • PLS 405 The Food System (3 Credits)
• One of the following two courses:
  • ESC 318 Sustainable Land & Water Management (3 Credits)
  • PLS 312 Public Administration (3 Credits)
• One of the following courses:
  • ECN 204 Introduction to Business Statistics (3 Credits)
  • ENV 337 Biostatistics (3 Credits)
  • MTH 243 Elementary Statistics (3 Credits)
  • PSH 202 Introductory Statistics for Psychology (3 Credits)
  • SOC 200 Social Statistics SOC (3 Credits)
• One of the following courses:
  • ESC 318 Sustainable Land & Water Management (3 Credits)
  • ESC 362 Climate Change & Global Warming Issues (3 Credits)
  • ENV 401Water Conservation & Management (3 Credits)
  • ENV 448 Restoration Ecology (3 Credits)
• One of the following courses:
  • ANT 330 Global Inequity (3 Credits)
  • BUS 345 International Business Environment (3 Credits)
  • HST 357 Modern American Dream: Economics, U. S. Society, and Culture (3 Credits)
  • SOC 323 Development & Globalization (3 Credits)
• One of the following courses:
  • ANT 465 Environmental Archaeology (3 Credits)
  • HST 407 American Environmental History (3 Credits)
  • PLS 405 The Food System (3 Credits)
  • SOC 307 Environmental Sociology (3 Credits)
  • SOC 311 Sociology of Disaster (3 Credits).
• One of the following courses:
  • ENV 497 Undergraduate Internship (3 Credits)
  • ENV 498 Collaborative Research (3 Credits)
  • ENV 499 Independent Study (3 Credits)
  • Or an equivalent course in one of the other participating departments

Electives (36-47 Credits)

Total Credits (120)

Additional Degree Requirements

Completion of all university-wide degree requirements

Student Learning Outcomes

• Understand the systems approach and use it to analyze complex problems linking ecology/environment, economy, and society.
• Know principles and methodologies of ecology, economy, and society and use them to analyze/interpret approaches/solutions for sustainable progress.
• Apply ethical principles in conjunction with social justice norms and economic equity principles.
• Acquire competency to address 21st century national and international environmental as well as cultural challenges.
• Function effectively as a member of a team and communicate effectively in a variety of contexts.
• Locate relevant data, analyze that data, and draw rational conclusions in support of sustainability projects.