Sustainability Major, BA

The sustainability major provides scientific, socioeconomic, and philosophical background for understanding and mitigating human impact on the natural environment.

College Requirements

Arts and Sciences

Major Requirements

The major consists of 39-42 credit hours at 200-level or above with 27-28 at 300-level or above.

I. Complete

13-14 credit hours

ECON 201 - Introductory Economics: A Survey Course 4 Credit Hours * or
ECON 211 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours * or
AREC 270 - Economic Perspectives on Natural Resource and Environmental Issues 3 Credit Hours *
FWF 250 - Conservation 3 Credit Hours * or
GEOG 204 - Understanding Climate Change 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 202 - Effective Science Communication for Geography and Sustainability Professionals 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 206 - Sustainability Principles and Practices 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 216S - Sustainability Service-Learning 1 Credit Hours

II. Applied Sustainability

7 credit hours

GEOG 496 - Field Experience for Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 499 - Practicing Geography and Sustainability 4 Credit Hours

Complete

21 credit hours

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

FWF 320 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 336 - Political Ecology 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 345 - People and Environment 3 Credit Hours
PHIL 346 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours *
PSYC 444 - Sustainability Psychology 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 342 - Globalization and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 360 - Environment and Resources 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 361 - Environmental Justice 3 Credit Hours *

Sustainability and the Environment

Select one course:

EEB 422 - Landscape Ecology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 425 - Communicating the Science of Climate Change Biology 3 Credit Hours *
EEB 484 - Conservation Biology 3 Credit Hours
ESS 424 - Environmental Stormwater Management 3 Credit Hours *
ESS 462 - Environmental Climatology 3 Credit Hours *
FORS 335 - Principles of Urban Forestry 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 333 - Climate Change and Human Response 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 430 - Global Environments of the Quaternary 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 433 - Landform Analysis and Landscape Planning 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 435 - Biogeography 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 436 - Water Resources 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 443 - Sustainable Cities and Landscapes 3 Credit Hours
GEOL 454 - Environmental Restoration 3 Credit Hours
GEOL 456 - Global Climate Change 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability Policy and Development

Select one course:

AREC 345 - Climate Change and Renewable Energy Economics 3 Credit Hours
AREC 470 - Policy Analysis for Environmental and Natural Resource Management 3 Credit Hours
ECON 322 - The Global Economy: Trade and Development 3 Credit Hours
ECON 362 - Environmental and Natural Resource Policy 3 Credit Hours
FORS 422 - Forest and Wildland Resource Policy 3 Credit Hours
FWF 420 - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 446 - City and Community Sustainability Planning 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 451 - The Global Economy 3 Credit Hours *
HTM 484 - Critical Sustainable Tourism 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours

Skills Area

Select one course:

ESS 326 - GIS/GPS Applications in Agriculture and Environmental Science 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 311 - Geovisualization and Geographic Information Science 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 411 - Intermediate Geographic Information Science 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 412 - Environmental Modeling and Geospatial Analysis 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 413 - Remote Sensing of the Environment 4 Credit Hours
GEOG 415 - Quantitative Methods in Geography 4 Credit Hours *
GEOG 420 - GIS in the Community 3 Credit Hours

Focus Area

Select nine credit hours of upper division courses from the above listed sub-categories.

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .

Undergraduates

Graduate Students

Sustainability Major, BA

College Requirements

Major Requirements

I. Complete

II. Applied Sustainability

Complete

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

Sustainability and the Environment

Select one course:

Sustainability Policy and Development

Select one course:

Skills Area

Select one course:

Focus Area