Sustainability Studies Minor
This Sustainability Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program designed to help students develop a broad perspective on the issues and challenges of creation care and to acquire skills and tools for personally and collectively addressing those challenges. As an interdisciplinary minor, Sustainability Studies, connects expertise in the sciences, humanities, theology, and business as well as requires a sustainability practicum or internship experience. All of the courses in the minor will significantly address sustainability issues from the perspective of their respective disciplines.
Code | Title | Units |
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Lower-Division Requirements | ||
ESI 2050 | Introduction to Environmental Studies | 3 |
or SOC 2001 | Cultural Anthropology (GE) | |
Choose one (1) course from the following: | 4 | |
Environment and People (GE) | ||
Ecology and Conservation (GE) and Ecology and Conservation Lab (GE) | ||
Upper-Division Requirements | ||
BUS 4075 | Sustainability in Action | 3 |
THE 3005 | Christian Faith and the Natural Sciences (GE) | 3 |
or THE 3070 | Global Christianity (GE) | |
Choose two (2) courses from the following: | 6-7 | |
Theories of Economic Development | ||
Professional Writing | ||
Romantic Literature | ||
Postcolonial Literatures | ||
Advanced Environmental Studies | ||
Wilderness in the American Mind | ||
Nonprofit Organization Management | ||
Global Governance | ||
Environmental Sociology | ||
Globalization and Culture | ||
Internship, Practicum, or Research Project | ||
An Internship, Practicum, or Research Project addressing sustainability 1,2 | 0-4 | |
Total Units | 19-24 |
- 1
Minimum of 40 hours work requirement; may be taken for credit.
- 2
The project must be approved by the Sustainability Studies minor advisor. It may consist of an experience (no formal course credit) with a local NGO or business on a sustainability project, or may be a for-credit course drawn from any major’s internship, research project or practicum courses.