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

Prerequisites

Students who enter the program with a different natural science lab science sequence may petition to waive the prerequisite natural lab science sequence listed below.

Complete

Choose one of the following lab sequences:
GEOG 131 - Weather, Climate, and Climate Change 4 Credit Hours
GEOG 132 - Landscapes and Environmental Change 4 Credit Hours
OR
EEPS 101 - The Dynamic Earth 4 Credit Hours
EEPS 103 - The Earth’s Environments 4 Credit Hours
OR
BIOL 113 - Introductory Plant Biology I 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 114 - Introductory Plant Biology II 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 115 - Introductory Plant Biology Laboratory 2 Credit Hours
OR
BIOL 150 - Organismal and Ecological Biology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 160 - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours
BIOL 159 - Skills of Biological Investigation 2 Credit Hours

Major Requirements

Students who enter the program with a different natural science lab science sequence may petition to waive the prerequisite natural lab science sequence listed below.

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

ANTH 415 - Environmental Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
FWF 320 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hours
EEB 306 - Ecology and Society 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 *
SOCI 342 - Globalization and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 360 - Environment and Resources 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 361 - Environmental Justice 3 Credit Hours *
PSYC 444 - Sustainability Psychology 3 Credit Hours
REST 343 - Religion, Nature, and Ethics 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 463 - Community, Sustainability and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 465 - Social Values and the Environment 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and the Environment

Select one course:

EEB 330 - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours
EEB 419 - Global Change Ecology 3 Credit Hours
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 439 - Plants, People, and Climate in North America 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 443 - Sustainable Cities and Landscapes 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 454 - Environmental Restoration 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 455 - Environmental Geology 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 456 - Global Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 464 - Water Sustainability and Climate 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 466 - Water and Air Pollution 3 Credit Hours
PLSC 415 - Agroecology 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability Policy and Development

Select one course:

ALEC 485 - Global Sustainable Development Goals 3 Credit Hours
AREC 314 - Environmental Law 3 Credit Hours
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 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 363 - Southern Spaces and Places 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 440 - Global Perspectives on Urban Sustainability 3-6 Credit Hours
GEOG 446 - City and Community Sustainability Planning 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 449 - Geography of Transportation 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
POLS 350 - Sources of Political Change in the Global South: Coups, Climate, and Conflict 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Geospatial Science and Technologies

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 409 - GIS for Environmental and Socio-Economic Applications 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 420 - GIS in the Community 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 425 - Human Dimension in GIScience 3 Credit Hours

Applied Sustainability

Complete:
GEOG 496 - Field Experience for Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
OR
GEOG 490 - Internship 3 Credit Hours
AND
GEOG 499 - Practicing Geography and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours

Focus Area

Select three courses from one of the tracks (Sustainability and Society, Sustainability and the Environment, Sustainability Policy and Development, or Sustainability &Geospatial Science and Technologies)

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .

Undergraduates

Graduate Students

Sustainability Major, BA

College Requirements

Prerequisites

Complete

Major Requirements

Complete:

Select one course:

Select one course:

Select one course:

Select one course:

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

Sustainability and the Environment

Select one course:

Sustainability Policy and Development

Select one course:

Sustainability and Geospatial Science and Technologies

Select one course:

Applied Sustainability

Focus Area