The sustainability major provides scientific, socioeconomic, and philosophical background for understanding and mitigating human impact on the natural environment.

The major consists of 41-43 hours with 31-32 upper division hours.

I. Sustainability Core

Complete:

• GEOL 206 - Sustainability: Reducing our Impact on Planet Earth
• GEOG 496 - Field Experience for Sustainability
• GEOG 499 - Practicing Geography

II. Sustainability and Society

Select one course:

• FWF 320 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
• GEOG 345 - People and Environment
• PHIL 346 - Environmental Ethics *
• SOCI 342 - Globalization and Justice
• SOCI 360 - Environment and Resources

III. Sustainability and the Environment

Select one course:

• BIOL 260 - Ecology

• and

• BIOL 269 - Ecology Field-Based Laboratory
• FWF 250 - Conservation *

Select one course:

• EEB 484 - Conservation Biology
• ESS 424 - Environmental Stormwater Management
• ESS 462 - Environmental Climatology
• FORS 335 - Principles of Urban Forestry
• GEOG 433 - Landform Analysis and Landscape Planning
• GEOG 436 - Water Resources
• GEOG 443 - Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
• GEOL 454 - Environmental Restoration
• GEOL 455 - Environmental Geology
• GEOL 456 - Global Climate Change

IV. Sustainability and Development

Complete:

• ECON 201 - Introductory Economics: A Survey Course *

Select one course:

• AREC 345 - Renewable Energy Economics
• ECON 322 - The Global Economy: Trade and Development
• ECON 463 - Environmental Economics
• GEOG 451 - The Global Economy
• SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development

V. Sustainability and Policy

Select one course:

• AREC 333 - Agricultural Conservation Policy
• AREC 470 - Policy Analysis for Environmental and Natural Resource Management
• ECON 362 - Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
• FORS 422 - Forest and Wildland Resource Policy
• FWF 420 - International Natural Resource Issues
• POLS 321 - Urban Politics and Process

VI. Skills Area

Select one course:

• ESS 326 - GIS/GPS Applications in Agriculture and Environmental Science
• GEOG 311 - Geovisualization and Geographic Information Science
• GEOG 411 - Intermediate Geographic Information Science
• GEOG 413 - Remote Sensing of the Environment
• GEOG 415 - Quantitative Methods in Geography

VII. Focus Area

• Select nine credit hours of upper division courses from the above listed sub-categories.