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 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
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 | Sustainable Design | 3 |
| CST 470 | Plants, Nonhuman Animals, Food Systems, and Climate Communication | 3 |
| ECN 322 | Environmental Economics | 3 |
| ECN 326 | Climate Change Economics and Policy: 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 | 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 | 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/EE 424 | Renewable Energy | 3 |
| SOC 333 | Social Class and Inequality | 3 |
| SW 456 | Organizing for Environmental Justice | 3 |
| THE 330 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| THE 343/THE 443 | Ecological Spirituality | 3 |