Sustainability Minor
Degree Requirements
Minor in Sustainability
The minor curriculum is designed to appeal to students across South’s campus. Through coursework across the three pillars of sustainability - Social, Economics, Environment - students will develop proficiencies in sustainability and develop systems thinking skills in preparation for a wide variety of sustainability careers in government, non-profits, and the private sector. The Sustainability minor is designed following the principles of the Ponderosa model, which focuses on exposing students to a diverse set of sustainability proficiencies, and initially includes courses from over 12 academic programs across campus.
Requirements for a Minor in Sustainability include a minimum of 18 hours in Sustainability related classes. The student must take ENV 100 Gulf Environment and Society Seminar and ENV 101 Environment and Society. In addition to these core requirements, students must take 14 hours of elective courses that include at least 1 course primarily focused on each pillar of sustainability: Social (Soc), Economic (Econ), and Environmental (ENV). Other electives may be substituted pending approval by Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences (SSoMES).
If a minor is required in your degree program, at least 9 (lower and/or upper-division) hours of courses in the minor must be completed at the University.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ENV 100 | Gulf Coast Sustainability Seminar | 1 |
| ENV 101 | Principles of Sustainability | 3 |
| Electives | 14 | |
| Choose at least one elective course from the following three groups.: | ||
| Social pillar of sustainability: | ||
| Anthropology of Food | ||
| Cultural Resource Management | ||
| Native American Art | ||
| Special Topics (Global Change Biology and Psychology) | ||
| Global Health-W | ||
| Ethics-Social Respons Comm | ||
| Information Tech in Society | ||
| International Develop & Educ-W | ||
| Intern. Devel & Global Ed | ||
| Natural Resource Management | ||
| Environmental Policy | ||
| Urban Geography & Planning | ||
| Amer Environmental Hy-W | ||
| Global Issues | ||
| Info Systems in Organizations | ||
| Introductory Spanish II | ||
| Introductory German II | ||
| Reading the Environment: Literature in Translation | ||
| Organizational Comm - W | ||
| Negotiatn/Disp Resolutn in Bus | ||
| Social Ethics | ||
| Comparative Politics | ||
| Disasters and Society | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Economic pillar of sustainability: | ||
| Mgmt & Sustainability of C.I. | ||
| Current Global Economic Issues | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Special Topics (Sustainable Business Practice) | ||
| Renewable Energy | ||
| Environmental Policy | ||
| Sustainable and Eco-Tourism | ||
| Global Tourism | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Environmental pillar of sustainability: | ||
| Intro Environmental Sci | ||
| Blgy/Conserv Marine Turtles | ||
| Marine Aquaculture | ||
| Desert Biodiversity - W | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Special Topics (Coastal Zone Management) | ||
| Enviro Monitoring & Assessment and Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Lab | ||
| Sustainability in Practice-W and Sustainability in Practice Laboratory | ||
| Climate Change - W | ||
| Special Topics (Watershed Sustainability Science: From the Mountains to the Sea) | ||
ENV 499 ENV Honors | ||
| Environmental Geography and Environmental Geography Lab | ||
| People, Places, Environment | ||
| Natural Hazards and Disasters | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Field Marine Science II | ||
| Special Topics (Coastal Ecology of Alaska: Land of the Midnight Sun & Adventure Alaska: Exploring the Marine and Terrestrial Ecology of the Last Frontier or Coastal Zone Management)) | ||
| Remaining elective hours should be selected from any course in the above three groups not already taken. Only 8 credits of Special Topics (490) can be taken to count toward the degree or minor requirements. | ||
| Total Hours | 18 | |