Sustainability (Minor)

The minor is anchored in the Environmental Forum (ENVI 201 offered every spring) and Environmental Ethics (PHIL 139 offered S18, S19, S20), providing a common experience for all students electing this minor. The selection of elective courses within the minor should be undertaken in consultation with the student’s major advisor or another faculty member with an interest in issues of sustainability. The courses should form a cohesive and thematic thread of courses that complement the major. The Environmental Forum is a required two-credit course that focuses on topics related to sustainability and the environment, encourages an active dialog between students and invited expert speakers, and provides an integrative thread to the minor. In addition, this course has a service-learning component that connects sustainability to the community. Environmental Ethics, two semesters of the Environmental Forum, and a total of twenty credits, are required for the minor, with one course from each group below. Note CHEM 221 (Cultural Ecology and Sustainability: Lessons from Iceland offered May ‘19) can be used in place of one the Environmental Forum courses.

Electives for the Minor in Sustainability

Scientific Issues

BIOL 104Introduction to Environmental Science

4

BIOL 243Environmental Sustainability

3

BIOL 245Principles of Ecology

4

CHEM 227Energy & Global Warming

4

Economic and Political Issues

ECON 145Economics of Sustainability and Resource Use

4

ECON 235From Farm to Table: The Political Economy of Food Systems

3

ECON 247Environmental Economics

4

POLS 217American Public Policy

4

ECON 235/HON 335 – not open to freshmen

Social Issues

HIST 205/HON 205Global Environmental History

4

MGMT 224Socially-Minded Leadership

4

MGMT 229Corporate Social Responsibility: Managing People, Planet, & Profit

4

MGMT 348Sustainable Supply Chain

4

SOCI 220Working for Social Justice

4

SOCI 222Organizing for Social Change

4

SOCI 245Global Health

4

SOCI 249Inequalities

4

SOCI 321Sociology of Food

4

MGMT 229: part of LC – open to sophomores

MGMT 224: open to sophomores

MGMT 348: open to juniors

BIOL 104, CHEM 227, ECON 145, MGMT 229, HIST 205, MGMT 224, MGMT 348, SOCI 220, SOCI 222, SOCI 245: These courses do not have prerequisites.