Sustainability
Students in this minor will explore innovative solutions to the local and worldwide degradation of nature, associated social injustices, and discover technological, social and ethics-based approaches that can enable more harmonious and sustainable dynamics between humans and nature. Students address the essential question of sustainability: How can we best live without degrading our life-support systems, and create conditions that nurture the flourishing of other beings and future generations?
Minor Requirements
24 credits
Core Requirements
- IIENST 150 Global Environmental Change
- ENST 250 Principles of Sustainability
Interdisciplinary Electives
Select two of the following:
- IIENST 110 Food, Health, and the Environment
- IIJRN 268 Environmental Issues and the Media
- IITDS 160 Peak Oil and Sustainable Solutions
- IISPDI 360 Sustainability by Design
- INENST 381 Farming with Nature in Mind
- ISENST 382 Environmental Advocacy
- INENST 383 Rethinking Energy¹
- ISGEOG 205 Environmental Geography
Disciplinary electives
Select two of the following:
- ARCH 260 Sustainable Design and Building Science
- ARCH 360 Solar Design and Building Science II
- ARCH 370 Architectural Systems
- ENST 363 Writing in an Endangered World
- ENST 311 Environmental Health
- ENST 312 Energy Resource Science¹
- ENST 371 Environmental Ethics
- ENST 481 The Future of Energy
- ENST 393 Sustainability for Organizations
- GEOG 308 Planning for Sustainability
- GEOG 329 Applications in GIS
- GEOG 335 Sustainable Tourism
- MGT 215 Accounting for Sustainable Business
- SOC 380 Environmental Sociology
- SPDI 304 Materials: A Life Cycle View
¹ Students cannot take both INENST 383 and ENST 312.
Only two courses that are being used to meet a student’s major requirements can be used toward the minor.