Updated 2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog

Sustainability minor

Required Credits: 18
Required GPA: 2.00

I REQUIRED COURSES

Note: The Sustainability Minor is not available to students pursuing the Indigenous Sustainability Studies major or the Indigenous Sustainability Studies minor.

Complete the following courses:

• ENVR 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3710 Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Perspective (3 credits)
• ENVR 4610 Sustainability: Theory and Practice (4 credits)

II REQUIRED ELECTIVES

A. Physical Systems

Choose one of the following courses:

• BIOL 2610 General Ecology (3 credits)
• BIOL 2925 People of the Environment: Biological Perspectives (3 credits)
• ENVR 2000 Introduction to Environmental Science (3 credits)
• ENVR 2925 People of the Environment: Global Pollution Perspective (3 credits)
• GEOG 2100 Introduction to Physical Geography (3 credits)
• GEOL 2925 People of the Environment: Earth Science Perspective (3 credits)
• GEOL 4300 Global Environmental Change (3 credits)

B. Political-Economic Systems

Choose one of the following courses:

• BUAD 2925 People of the Environment: Business Perspective (3 credits)
• ED 2925 People of the Environment: Education Perspective (3 credits)
• ECON 3040 Environmental Economics (3 credits)
  or ENVR 3040 Environmental Economics (3 credits)
• ENVR 4210 Environmental Law and Policy (3 credits)
  or POL 3230 Environmental Politics (3 credits)
• ENVR 4260 Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Community Development (3 credits)
• GEOG 2400 Introduction to Planning (3 credits)
• GEOG 3531 Political Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3532 Political Ecology (3 credits)
• GEOG 3570 Public Lands Planning (3 credits)
• GEOG 3870 Planning for Sustainable Cities (3 credits)
• TADT 4385 Sustainability and Emerging Technologies (3 credits)

C. Sociocultural Systems

Choose one of the following courses:

• BIOL 3339 Bioethics (3 credits)
• ENVR 3600 Environmental Justice and Sustainability (3 credits)
• ENVR 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
  or INST 3720 Food Sovereignty, Health & Indigenous Environments (3 credits)
• ENVR 3880 Environmental Controversies (2 credits)
• ENVR 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3730 Sustainable Communities: Local Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
• ENVR 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
  or INST 3740 Environment, Wellness & the Sacred Connection to Place (3 credits)
• ENVR 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
  or INST 3750 Sustainable Communities: Global Indigenous Perspective (3 credits)
• HST 3650 Environmental History (3 credits)
• INST 1107 Introduction to Turtle Island (3 credits)
• PHIL 2925 People of the Environment: Environmental Ethics Perspective (3 credits)
• PSY 2925 People of the Environment: Psychology Perspective (3 credits)

D. Additional elective credits

Choose a second course from those listed in A, B, and
C above, OR one of the following:

Students can also complete a Teaching associate for
People and the Environment in any discipline (1-2
credits). See advisor for more information.

• BUAD 3361 Marketing (3 credits)
• BUAD 3450 Indigenous Business (3 credits)
• BUAD 3520 Business Ethics (3 credits)
• BUAD 3567 Consumer Behavior (3 credits)
• BUAD 4354 Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
• BUAD 4509 Diversity and Inclusion (3 credits)
• BUAD 4550 Indigenous Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
• CRJS 1120 Criminal Justice and Society (3 credits)
• CRJS 3310 Introduction to Emergency Management (3 credits)
• CRJS 4477 Restorative Justice (3 credits)
• ED 3257 Introduction to Environmental Education and Interpretation (3 credits)
• ED 3258 Environmental Interpretation (3 credits)
• ED 4777 Field Experiences in Environmental Education and Interpretation (3 credits)
• ENVR 4970 Internship (3 credits)
• NRSG 3150 Integrative and Cultural Nursing (3 credits)
• NRSG 3400 American Indian Health Issues & Nursing (3 credits)
• NRSG 4110 Community Health Nursing (3 credits)
• NRSG 4116 Family and Population Health Nursing (4 credits)
• PHIL 2220 Ethics (3 credits)
• PHIL 2330 Philosophies of Non-Violence (3 credits)
• PSY 3367 Social Psychology (3 credits)
• SOC 2200 Social Movements and Change (3 credits)
• SOC 3310 Community Organizing for Social Change (3 credits)
• SOWK 2110 Intercultural Communication (3 credits)