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Twin Cities Campus
Sustainability Studies MinorCollege of Food, Agri & Natural Resource Sciences
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
One of the greatest challenges facing the 21st-century world is jointly sustaining the environment, as well as human health and well-being. The sustainability studies minor provides students from across the University with a unique opportunity to address this sustainability challenge. Students will explore the fundamental ecological, social, ethical, political, and economic forces that influence the long-term quality and viability of human society and the natural environment. The introductory core course provides a conceptual overview of various models for understanding sustainability, and uses case studies to demonstrate the challenges of putting sustainability into practice. Additional electives are chosen from courses that explore multiple disciplinary perspectives related to sustainability. Finally, the capstone experience allows students to synthesize and apply their knowledge to real sustainability problems.
For this minor, students must complete 6 credits of required courses for the core and the capstone, and 9-12 restricted electives, for a total of 15-18 credits.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Minor Requirements
Electives
Take three courses, not more than one from each of four categories. You may also petition for study abroad, summer, special topics, new, and other courses to count toward elective requirements. You may complete up to one online course as an elective. You may complete up to one 1xxx or 2xxx level elective, pending approval from the minor advisor or coordinator.
Take 3 or more course(s) from the following:
Economics and Policy
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
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APEC 3611W - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
CEGE 5212 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3241W - Natural Resource and Environmental Policy
[SOCS, CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3245 - Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3251 - Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development
[GP]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3261 - Economics and Natural Resources Management
[SOCS, ENV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3602 - Regulations and Corporate Environmental Management
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3603 - Environmental Life Cycle Analysis
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3604 - Environmental Management Systems and Strategy
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 4242 - Methods for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Analysis
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 5602 - Regulations and Corporate Environmental Management
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 3001 {Inactive}
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 3011 - Pathways to Renewable Energy
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 5008 - Policy and Science of Global Environmental Change
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
PA 5232 - Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment
(3.0 cr)
·
Social Science and Humanities
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 3041 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
ANTH 4053 - Economy, Culture, and Critique
[SOCS, GP]
(3.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3501 - Public Discourse: Coming to Terms with the Environment
[LITR, ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3011W - Ethics in Natural Resources
[CIV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 3031 - The Global Climate Challenge: Creating an Empowered Movement for Change
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3376 - Political Ecology
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3379 - Environment and Development in the Third World
[SOCS, ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 3303 {Inactive}
[SOCS, ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
[SOCS, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 3613V {Inactive}
[SOCS, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 4305 {Inactive}
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GLOS 4311 - Power, Justice & the Environment
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
HSCI 3244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
[HIS, ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
HECU 3592 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
PHIL 3301 - Environmental Ethics
[ENV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating
[SOCS, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
SOC 3613V {Inactive}
[SOCS, GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
SOC 4305 - Environment & Society: An Enduring Conflict
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
SOC 4311 - Power, Justice & the Environment
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
SUST 3017 - Environmental Justice
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
Biophysical Sciences
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
·
AGRO 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
[GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
AGRO 5321 - Ecology of Agricultural Systems
(3.0 cr)
·
ANSC 3203W - Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
[GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
BIOL 1052 - Environmental Biology: Science and Solutions
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
BIOL 1055 - Environmental Biology: Science and Solutions with Laboratory
[BIOL, ENV]
(4.0 cr)
·
CHEM 4601 - Green Chemistry
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 3001 - Ecology and Society
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 3407 - Ecology
(3.0 cr)
·
EEB 3408W - Ecology
[WI]
(4.0 cr)
·
EEB 4609W - Ecosystem Ecology
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 3005 - Earth Resources
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 3402 - Science and Politics of Global Warming
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESCI 5402 - Science and Politics of Global Warming
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3108 - Ecology of Managed Systems
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
FNRM 3101 - Park and Protected Area Tourism
(3.0 cr)
·
FW 4102 - Principles of Conservation Biology
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 1403 - Biogeography of the Global Garden
[BIOL, ENV]
(4.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change
[ENV, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
HECU 3591 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
HORT 3131 - Student Organic Farm Planning, Growing, and Marketing
(3.0 cr)
·
Design and Technology
Take no more than 1 course(s) from the following:
·
ARCH 4561 - Architecture and Ecology
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
BBE 2201 - Renewable Energy and the Environment
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
BBE 4733 - Renewable Energy Technologies
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
CEGE 3501 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
CEGE 4160 - Special Topics
(1.0-4.0 cr)
·
CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes
(3.0 cr)
·
EE 1701 - Climate Crisis: Implementing Solutions
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
ESPM 3601 - Sustainable Housing--Community, Environment, and Technology
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 3005 - Innovation for Changemakers: Design for a Disrupted World
[GP]
(3.0 cr)
·
HSG 3482 {Inactive}
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 5005 - Innovation for Changemakers: Design for a Disrupted World
[GP]
(3.0 cr)
·
GCC 5501 - Knowledge to Impact: Creating Action with Your Grand Challenge Project Idea
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 1001 {Inactive}
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 3003 - Climate Change Adaptation
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 3004 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
LA 3501 - Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 3514 {Inactive}
[CIV]
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 4755 {Inactive}
[TS]
(3.0 cr)
·
LA 5514 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
PA 5743 {Inactive}
(1.5 cr)
·
URBS 3751 - Understanding the Urban Environment
[ENV]
(3.0 cr)
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 3304/Sust 3003 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | CEGE 5212/PA 5232 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3241W/ESPM 5241 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3245/ESPM 5245 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3251/ESPM 5251/LAS 3251 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3261/ESPM 5261 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3602/ESPM 5602 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3603/ESPM 5603 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3604/ESPM 5604 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 4242/ESPM 5242 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Fall Even Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3602/ESPM 5602 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GCC 3011/GCC 5011 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | EEB 5146/FNRM 5146/GCC 5008/P |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | CEGE 5212/PA 5232 |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Anth 4053/8205 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GCC 3031/GCC 5031 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 3379/GloS 3303 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 4311/Soc 4311 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | HSci 3244/5244 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 4305/Soc 4305 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | GloS 4311/Soc 4311 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Agro/Ent 5321 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Agro/AnSc 3203/AgUM 2224 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Biol 1050/Biol 1055 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Biol 3407//Biol 3807/EEB 3407 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Summer |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Biol 3407//Biol 3807/EEB 3407 |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Fall Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESci 3402/ESci 5402 |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESci 3402/ESci 5402 |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3108/ESPM 5108 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | FNRM 3101/FNRM 5101 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Fall Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Prerequisites: | introductory biology course |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 1403/Geog 1403H |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Geog 3401W/5401W |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | HORT 3131 / HORT 5131 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Arch 4501/Arch 4561/Arch 5501 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | BBE 4733/CEGE 4513/ChEn 5551 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | ESPM 3601/Hsg 3482 |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | CEGE 5571/GCC 3005/GCC 5005 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | CEGE 5571/GCC 3005/GCC 5005 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | LA 3003/LA 5003 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |