Sustainability Major, BA - Public Policy Concentration

Prerequisites

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

• 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

• Required course:

• HBS 101 - Solving Public Problems 3 Credit Hours

Major Requirements

Public Policy

Complete HBS 301 and HBS 302 and two additional courses from the list:

• HBS 301 - Thinking Analytically 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 302 - Visualizing and Communicating Policy Data 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 303 - National Challenges 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 304 - State and Local Challenges 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 424 - Energy Markets and Economics 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 443 - Energy Transitions 3 Credit Hours
• HBS 461 - Tools for Economic Development 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

• ANTH 315 - The African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 306 - Ecology and Society 3 Credit Hours
• 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
• REST 343 - Religion, Nature, and 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
• 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 462 - Environmental Climatology 3 Credit Hours
• FORS 335 - Principles of Urban Forestry 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
• ECON 463 - Environmental Economics 3 Credit Hours
• FORS 422 - Forest and Wildland Resource Policy 3 Credit Hours
• FWF 420 - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 449 - Geography of Transportation 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 440 - Global Perspectives on Urban Sustainability 3-6 Credit Hours
• GEOG 451 - The Global Economy 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 446 - City and Community Sustainability Planning 3 Credit Hours
• POLS 350 - Sources of Political Change in the Global South: Coups, Climate, and Conflict 3 Credit Hours
• SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Geospatial Science and Technologies

Select one course: 

• 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