Aug 07, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Sustainability, Minor


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Can humans live in harmony with the earth? How do we balance the need for jobs and the conservation of resources? Can a modern lifestyle be sustainable? Can technology fix our environmental problems? Should all endangered species be saved? Should nature have a voice in our decisions? In the environmental sustainability minor, students tackle critical sustainability issues with the tools of different disciplines, refining and integrating multiple ways of thinking, analyzing, and problem-solving. The minor includes courses in biology, economics, environmental studies, history, philosophy, political science, and several other disciplines.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply principles of sustainability (People, Planet, Profits) to students’ primary fields of study
  • Evaluate the implications of decision making and societal practices for sustainability in time and space
  • Create sustainability narratives or other modes of representation that bridge different audiences in the context of students’ primary fields of study

Minor


(21-22 Hours)

Required Courses


Students who are Sustainability minors are required to complete one introductory course and one integrative course. (6 Hours)

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