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Minor in Sustainability

The sustainability minor is intended as a complement to core fields of study. It focuses on sustainability as a framework for assessing social, environmental, and economic constraints and opportunities for value creation for organizations. All students minoring in sustainability will be better prepared for careers where sustainability is a major focus (e.g. sustainability managers, chief environmental officers, sustainable development specialists) and in all careers where organizations are facing rising consumer, regulatory, and competitive pressure to improve environmental and social outcomes (e.g. employees in the building, education, energy, food and transportation industries).

The minor in sustainability is open to students of all majors. It requires five upper-division courses, excluding prerequisites. Only one upper-division course can be cross-counted in both the minor and another major.

Minor Requirements

Prerequisites - 6 credit hours

ECN 120Principles of Macroeconomics

3
Or
ECN 121Principles of Microeconomics

3
ENV 182Environmental Science

3
Or
CE 367Environmental Engineering

3

Upper-Division Requirements — 15 credit hours

All prerequisites for these courses must be satisfied.

Required Courses - 6 credit hours

ECN 325/ENV 325Metrics for Sustainability: Managing for Change in the 21st Century

3
BUS 408/EGR 408/ENV 408Innovation for Sustainability

3
Or
ENV 314Resilience and Policy

3

Electives - 9 credit hours

Select three courses from the following:
BUS 376Marketing for Sustainability

3
BUS 408/EGR 408/ENV 408Innovation for Sustainability

3
BUS 487Social Entrepreneurship

3
CE 462/CE 562Sustainable Design

3
CST 470Plants, Nonhuman Animals, Food Systems, and Climate Communication

3
ECN 322Environmental Economics and Policy

3
ECN 326Climate Change and Clean Energy Economics: A Global Perspective

3
ECN 424Income Inequality

3
EGR 351Engineering Economics

3
ENG 363Environmental Literature

3
ENV 314Resilience and Policy

3
ENV 327/ETHS 327Global Environmental Justice

3
ENV 324Environmental Ethics

3
ENV 348/POL 348Geopolitics of Energy and the Environment

3
ENV 349Environmental Policy

3
ENV 360The Science and Ethics of the Sustainable Gourmet

3
ENV 365Climatology

3
ENV 367Climate Change Negotiations: The Road to the Conference of the Parties (COP)

3
ENV 370/ETHS 370Do or Do Not: Saving Planet A

3
HST 357Environmental History of the Americas and the World

3
ME 434Energy Efficiency in Buildings

3
ME 438/EE 424Renewable Energy

3
SOC 333Social Class and Inequality

3
SW 456Organizing for Environmental Justice

3
THE 330/THE 430Environmental Justice and Interreligious Dialogue

3
THE 343/THE 443Ecological Spirituality

3