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.

Note: Only one upper-division major requirement or major elective can be counted towards both the minor and a major.

Minor Requirements

Prerequisites - 6 credit hours

ECN 120	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
	Or
ECN 121	Principles of Microeconomics	3
ENV 182	Environmental Science	3
	Or
CE 367	Environmental Engineering	3

Upper-Division Requirements — 15 credit hours

All prerequisites for these courses must be satisfied.

Required Courses - 6 credit hours

ECN 325/ENV 325	Metrics for Sustainability: Managing for Change in the 21st Century	3
BUS 408/EGR 408/ENV 408	Innovation for Sustainability	3
	Or
ENV 314	Resilience and Policy	3

Electives - 9 credit hours

Select three courses from the following:

BUS 376	Marketing for Sustainability	3
BUS 408/EGR 408/ENV 408	Innovation for Sustainability	3
BUS 487	Social Entrepreneurship	3
CE 462/CE 562	Sustainable Design	3
CST 470	Plants, Nonhuman Animals, Food Systems, and Climate Communication	3
ECN 322	Environmental Economics and Policy	3
ECN 326	Climate Change and Clean Energy Economics: A Global Perspective	3
ECN 424	Income Inequality	3
EGR 351	Engineering Economics	3
ENG 363	Environmental Literature	3
ENV 314	Resilience and Policy	3
ENV 327/ETHS 327	Global Environmental Justice	3
ENV 324	Environmental Ethics	3
ENV 348/POL 348	Geopolitics of Energy and the Environment	3
ENV 349	Environmental Policy	3
ENV 360	The Science and Ethics of the Sustainable Gourmet	3
ENV 365	Climatology	3
ENV 367	Climate Change Negotiations: The Road to the Conference of the Parties (COP)	3
ENV 370/ETHS 370	Do or Do Not: Saving Planet A	3
HST 357	Environmental History of the Americas and the World	3
ME 434	Energy Efficiency in Buildings	3
ME 438	Renewable Energy	3
SOC 333	Social Class and Inequality	3
SW 456	Organizing for Environmental Justice	3
THE 330/THE 430	Environmental Justice and Interreligious Dialogue	3
THE 343/THE 443	Ecological Spirituality	3