Electives for Fall 2013 and May/Summer 2013!
Sustainability Studies Minor students are required to complete 9 credits from electives.
Choosing Electives
Because “sustainability” covers a broad set of ideas and the Sustainability Studies Minor is an interdisciplinary program, there are many options for completing the Minor in a way that suits your academic and professional interests. While all students in the Minor must complete the two core courses (SUST 3003 and SUST 4004), there is a lot of flexibility in choosing electives.
When choosing classes for the Minor, keep in mind that while it is required that students take electives from different sub-categories, we also encourage students, if they wish, to focus on a particular thematic issue as the examples show below.
Several Alternate Options are also available for completing your elective courses including taking the Sustainability Internship and Topics courses, studying abroad, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), petitioning for relevant courses, and directed study opportunities.
Examples of Themes for the Minor
Clean Energy
- BBE 4733: Renewable Energy Technologies (3.0 cr) [ENV] Design and Technology
- ECON 3611: Environmental Economics (3.0 cr) Economics and Policy
- ESCI 3005: Earth Resources (3.0 cr) Biophysical Sciences
Global Development
- ESPM 3251: Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development (3.0 cr) [GP] Economics and Policy
- HIST 3452: African Conservation Histories (3.0 cr) Social Science and Humanities
- GEOG 3401: Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (4.0 cr) [ENV] Biophysical Science
Land & Agriculture
- AGRO 3203W: Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (3.0 cr) [GP, WI] Biophysical Sciences
- SOC 3613W: Food, Culture, and Society (3.0 cr) [SOCS, GP, WI] Social Sciences and Humanities
- LA 3004: Regional Landscape Planning (3.0 cr) Design and Technology
Elective Categories
Choose 3 courses from the following categories, but not more than one from each.
Economics & Policy
AFEE 5361 World Development Problems (3 credits)
APEC/ECON 3611 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3 credits)
CE 5212/PA 5232 Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment (4 credits)
CE 5214 Transportation and Systems Analysis (3 credits)
EEB/FR 5146 Science and Policy of Global Environmental Change (3 credits)
ESPM 3241W Natural Resources and Environmental Policy: History, Creation, and Implementation (3 credits)
ESPM 3245 Sustainable Land Use and Planning Policy (3 credits)
ESPM/LAS 3251 Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development (3 credits)
ESPM 3261 Economics and Natural Resource Management (4 credits)
ESPM 3602/5602 Regulations and Corporate Environmental Management (3 credits)
ESPM 3603 Environmental Life Cycle Analysis (3 credits)
ESPM 3604 Environmental Management: Systems and Strategy (3 credits)
ESPM 4242 Methods for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Analysis (3 credits)
MGMT 5019 Business, the Natural Environment and the Global Economy (2 credits)
Social Science & Humanities
ANTH 3041 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits)
ANTH/GLOS 3212 Globalization, Markets, and Inequality (3 credits)
ANTH 4053 Economy, Culture, and Critique (3 credits)
ANTH 4069 Environmental Archaeology (3 credits)
ENGL 3501 Public Discourse: Coming to Terms with the Environment (3 credits)
ESPM 3011W Ethics in Natural Resources (3 credits)
GEOG 3379/GLOS 3303 Environment and Development in the Third World (3 credits)
HIST 3452 African Conservation Histories (3 credits)
HSCI 3244 History of Ecology and Environmentalism (3 credits)
ID 3592 Environmental Sustainability: Dimensions of Environmental Change (4 credits)
PHIL 3301 Environmental Ethics (4 credits)
SOC 3613W Food, Culture, and Society (3 credits)
SOC 4305 Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict (3 credits)
SOC 4311 Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature (3 credits)
Biophysical Sciences
AGRO/HORT 3131 Student Organic Farm Planning, Growing and Marketing (3 credits)
AGRO/ANSC 3203W Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen (3 credits)
AGRO/ENT 5321 Ecology of Agricultural Systems (3 credits)
BIOL 3407/3408W Ecology (3 credits)
CHEM 4601 Green Chemistry (3 credits)
EEB 3001 Ecology and Society (3 credits)
EEB 4609W Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits)
ESPM 3108 Ecology of Managed Systems (3 credits)
FW 4102 Principles of Conservation Biology (3 credits)
ESCI 3005 Earth Resources (3 credits)
ESCI 3402 Science and Politics of Global Warming (3 credits)
GEOG 3401 Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (4 credits)
ID 3591 Adaptive Ecosystem Management (4 credits)
PLPA 3002 Air Pollution, People, and Plants: The Science and the Ethics (3 credits)
RRM 3101 Nature and Heritage-Based Tourism (3 credits)
Design & Technology
ARCH 4561 Architecture and Ecology (3 credits)
BBE 4733 Renewable Energy Technologies (3 credits)
CE 3501 Environmental Engineering (3 credits)
CE 4561 Solid Hazardous Wastes (3 credits)
CHEN 5551 Survey of Renewable Energy Technologies (3 credits)
ESPM 3601 Sustainable Housing–Community, Environment, and Technology (3 credits)
HSG/DHA 3482 Sustainable Housing–Community, Environment, and Technology (3 credits)
LA 3003 Case Studies in Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design (3 credits)
LA 3004 Regional Landscape Planning (3 credits)
LA 3501 Environmental Design and its Biological and Physical Context (3 credits)
LA 4755/5755 Infrastructure, Natural Systems, and the Space of Inhabited Landscapes (3 credits)
URBS 3751 Understanding the Urban Environment (3 credits)
