Apr 28, 2026

2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog

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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog

Sustainability Minor

Campus: Knoxville

Minor Requirements

The minor consists of 15 hours.

Complete

GEOG 206* - Sustainability Principles and Practices 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

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 344 - Population Geography 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 360* - Environment and Resources 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 361* - Environmental Justice 3 Credit Hours

Policy and Development

Select one course:

ALEC 485* - Global Sustainable Development Goals 3 Credit Hours
AREC 270* - Economic Perspectives on Natural Resource and Environmental Issues 3 Credit Hours
AREC 314* - Environmental Law 3 Credit Hours
AREC 345 - Natural Resource Economics 3 Credit Hours
AREC 470 - Policy Analysis for Environmental and Natural Resource Management 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 440* - Global Perspectives on Urban Sustainability 3-6 Credit Hours
GEOG 441* - Cities as Economic Engines 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 442* - Urban Spaces and Urban Society 3 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

Sustainability and the Environment

Select two courses:

EEB 422 - Landscape Ecology 3 Credit Hours
FORS 335 - Principles of Urban Forestry 3 Credit Hours
SNR 250* - Conservation 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 204* - Understanding Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 331* - Natural Hazards 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 434 - Climatology 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 435 - Biogeography 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 436 - Water Resources 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 443 - Urban Ecology 3 Credit Hours (same as EEPS 443 )
EEPS 454 - Environmental Restoration 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 456 - Global Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 455 - Environmental Geology 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 464 - Water Sustainability and Climate 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 466 - Water and Air Pollution 3 Credit Hours
LAR 432 - Plants in the Landscape I 3 Credit Hours
PLSC 415* - Agroecology 3 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .