Sustainable Systems - Minor (Environment and Society)

A. Required Courses (6 credits)

• ENVS 4700 - Communicating Sustainability (CI) 3 credit(s)
• LAEP 2039 - Foundations of Sustainable Systems 3 credit(s)

B. Agriculture, Food and Environment Systems (3 credits)

Select one course from the following:

• ASTE 2900 - Food Matters: Ethics, Economics, and the Environment (BSS) 3 credit(s)
• ASTE 5260 - Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Systems (CI) 3 credit(s)
• NDFS 1240 - Food Literacy 3 credit(s)
• PSC 3800 - Fundamentals of Organic Agriculture 3 credit(s)
• PSC 4070 - Agroecology 3 credit(s)
• PSC 4400 - Modern Vegetable Production 3 credit(s)
• WATS 1200 - Biodiversity and Sustainability (BLS) 3 credit(s)
• WILD 2200 - Ecology of Our Changing World (BLS) 3 credit(s)

C. Energy and Earth Systems (3 credits)

Select one course from the following:

• CCA 3070 - Unveiling the Anthropocene (DSC/QI) 3 credit(s)
• GEO 3100 - Natural Disasters (DSC) 3 credit(s)

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• GEO 3150 - Energy in the Twenty-first Century (DSC/QI) 3 credit(s) or
• PHYS 3150 - Energy in the Twenty-first Century (DSC/QI) 3 credit(s)

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• GEOG 4400 - Natural Hazards and Society 3 credit(s)
• LAEP 1030 - Introduction to Landscape Architecture (BCA) 3 credit(s)
• PHYS 1020 - Energy (BPS) 3 credit(s)
• PSC 4810 - Climate and Climate Change (DSC/QI) 3 credit(s)
• PSC 4880 - Earth System Science 3 credit(s)

D. Water Systems (3 credits)

Select one course from the following:

• LAEP 5090 - Sustainable Low Water Landscaping 3 credit(s) or
• PSC 5090 - Sustainable Low Water Landscaping 3 credit(s)

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• PSC 2010 - Soils, Waters, and the Environment (BPS) 3 credit(s)
• WATS 3700 - Fundamentals of Watershed Science (CI) 3 credit(s)
• WATS 4490 - Small Watershed Hydrology (QI) 4 credit(s)
• WATS 4530 - Water Quality and Pollution 3 credit(s)

E. Social Systems (3 credits)

Select one course from the following:

• APEC 3012 - Introduction to Natural Resource Economics (DSS) 3 credit(s)
• ENVS 2340 - Natural Resources and Society (BSS) 3 credit(s)
• ENVS 3010 - Fundamentals of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy 3 credit(s)
• ENVS 5550 - Sustainability: Concepts and Measurement 3 credit(s)
• GEOG 3100 - Human-Environment Geography (CI) 3 credit(s)
• MSLE 3855 - Sustainability Marketing 2 credit(s)
• PHIL 3530 - Environmental Ethics (DHA) 3 credit(s)
• SOC 4620 - Sociology of the Environment and Natural Resources (DSS) 3 credit(s)