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.

Course List

Code	Title	Units
Lower-Division Requirements
ESI 2050	Introduction to Environmental Studies	3
or SOC 2001	Cultural Anthropology (GE)
Choose one (1) course from the following:		4
BIO 1002	Environment and People (GE)
BIO 1005 and BIO 1005L	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
ECO 3015	Theories of Economic Development
ENG 4005	Professional Writing
ENG 4055	Romantic Literature
ENG 4075	Postcolonial Literatures
ESI 4020	Advanced Environmental Studies
HIS 3060	Wilderness in the American Mind
MGT 4070	Nonprofit Organization Management
POL 4035	Global Governance
SOC 4035	Environmental Sociology
SOC 4044	Globalization and Culture
Internship, Practicum, or Research Project
An Internship, Practicum, or Research Project addressing sustainability 1,2		0-4
Total Units		19-24

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Minimum of 40 hours work requirement; may be taken for credit.

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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.