Dec 05, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Sustainability Major, BA - Supply Chain Management Concentration

Students who want to declare the Sustainability Major, BA - Supply Chain Management Concentration need to contact the Sustainability Program Director within the Department of Geography and Sustainability.

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.

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 159* - Skills of Biological Investigation 2 Credit Hours
BIOL 160* - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours

Major Requirements

Complete the following courses:
ACCT 200 - Foundations of Accounting 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
Select one course:
AREC 270* - Economic Perspectives on Natural Resource and Environmental Issues 3 Credit Hours
ECON 201* - Introductory Economics: A Survey Course 4 Credit Hours
ECON 211* - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours
Select one course:
BIOL 260 - Ecology 2 Credit Hours
SNR 250* - Conservation 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 204* - Understanding Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
Select one course:
GEOG 415* - Quantitative Methods in Geography 4 Credit Hours
POLS 301* - Research Methods I 3 Credit Hours

Agricultural Resource Economics

Select one course:
AREC 314* - Environmental Law 3 Credit Hours
AREC 342* - Farm Business Management 3 Credit Hours
AREC 345 - Climate Change and Renewable Energy Economics 3 Credit Hours
AREC 350* - The Food and Agricultural Marketing System 3 Credit Hours

Supply Chain Management

Complete:
BUAD 331 - CBM I: Supply Chain Management 2 Credit Hours
SCM 440 - Social and Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain Management 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:
ANTH 415* - Environmental Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 306 - Ecology and Society 3 Credit Hours
SNR 320* - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 466 - 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
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
EEPS 443 - Urban Ecology 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:
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
SNR 420* - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 362* - Sustainable Development in Appalachia 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
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:
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 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 495 - Special Topics in Geography 1-4 Credit Hours
AND
GEOG 499 - Practicing Geography and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirement.