Sustainability Major, BA

Choose one of the following lab sequences:

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

• 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

Complete:

• 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 207* - Honors: Introductory Economics 4 Credit Hours
• ECON 211* - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours

Select one course:

• BIOL 260 - Ecology 2 Credit Hours
• GEOG 204* - Understanding Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
• SNR 250* - Conservation 3 Credit Hours

Select one course:

• ESM 250* - Applied Statistical Concepts for Decision Makers 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 415* - Quantitative Methods in Geography 4 Credit Hours
• POLS 301* - Research Methods I 3 Credit Hours

Sustainability and Society

• ANTH 415* - Environmental Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 306 - Ecology and Society 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 344 - Population Geography 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 345 - People and Environment 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours

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• PHIL 346* - Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours or
• PHIL 348* - Honors: Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours

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• REST 343* - Religion, Nature, and Ethics 3 Credit Hours
• SNR 320* - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources 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 or
• EEB 330S* - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours

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• 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
• 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
• 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 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 435 - Biogeography 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 436 - Water Resources 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 439 - Plants, People, and Climate in North America 3 Credit Hours

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• GEOG 443 - Urban Ecology 3 Credit Hours or
• EEPS 443 - Urban Ecology 3 Credit Hours

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• 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 - Natural Resource 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
• 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 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
• POLS 350 - Sources of Political Change in the Global South: Coups, Climate, and Conflict 3 Credit Hours
• SNR 420* - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours

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• SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours or
• AFST 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 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 499 - Practicing Geography and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours

• And

• Choose one:

• GEOG 490 - Internship 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 496* - Field Experience for Sustainability 3 Credit Hours

Focus Area

Select three additional courses (9 to 12 credit hours) from any of the Sustainability and Society, Sustainability and the Environment, Sustainability Policy and Development, or Sustainability & Geospatial Science and Technologies tracks.