Sustainability Minor

Minor Requirements

24 credits

Economic Geography (4 credits)

ENVS-1050

Introduction to Human Geography

4 credits

Land Geography and Systems (4 credits)

Complete one of the following and the associated lab:

BIOL-1140	Idaho Natural History	4 credits
ENVS-1001	Environmental Systems Science	4 credits
ENVS-1070	Physical Geology	4 credits

Sustainable Infrastructures and Built Environments (4 credits)

Complete one course.

ENVS-3053	Working Landscapes	4 credits
ENVS-3055	Urban Geography	4 credits

Climate and Sustainability (4 credits)

ENVS-3020

Earth's Dynamic Climate System

4 credits

Applied Sustainability (8 credits)

Complete two courses.

ANSC-2205	Topics in Anthropology and Environment	4 credits
COMM-3980	Topics in Public Controversy	4 credits
HEHP-1030	Introduction to Outdoor and Adventure Education	4 credits
POEC-2150	Power and Policy	4 credits
PSYC-3600	Environmental Psychology	4 credits

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this minor, students will be able to:

1. Analyze the way that human activity interacts with landscapes and resources to create degrees of impact on or interruption to biophysical processes; and
2. Practice combination of multiple datasets for analysis and measurement of this impact as well as approaches to reducing or managing this impact.