The Environment and Sustainability Programs include a certificate program, undergraduate minor and graduate minor. From accountants to zoologists, these programs are designed to enhance your understanding of the complex environmental challenges humanity faces in the 21st century. It will also give you an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in an environmental area of interest to you. You will study the technical aspects of issues such as climate change and energy, and learn how our values, beliefs, and governmental policies affect how these issues are addressed. You will also learn about sustainable practices and lifestyle choices that can reduce your ecological footprint.
Certificate Program | Undergraduate Minor | Graduate Minor
Environment and Sustainability Certificate Program
The Environment and Sustainability Certificate is a 16-credit hour, multi-disciplinary program open to all undergraduate majors in good standing.
Curriculum | Download Curricula
Required Courses (4 hours):
- Introduction to Environmental Science (ENS 2103)
- Introduction to Environmental Science Lab (ENS 2101)
Electives (12 hours):
Student must take three hours from each of three categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science and Engineering. The final 3 hours course may be chosen from any category not directly related to the student’s major.
| Humanities Electives | Social Sciences Electives | Science and Engineering Electives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AN 3163 Maritime and Fishing People | AEC 2223 Sustainability Economics | ABE 2873 Land Surveying | FO/PSS/ECE/GR 4411 Remote Sensing Policy |
| AN 8123 Environmental Anthropology | AEC 2611 Environmental Economics and Sustainability Seminar | ABE 3303 Transport in Bio Engineering | GR 2313 Maps and Remote Sensing |
| AN 8523 Environmental Archaeology | AEC 3233 Intro to Environmental Economics and Policy | ABE 4163 Machinery for Agro-Ecosystems | GR 3113 Conservation of Natural Resources |
| AN/SO 4173 Environment-Society | AEC 4233 Environmental Economics | ABE 4263 Soil and Water Management | GR 4643 Physical Climatology |
| ARC 2713 Passive Building Systems | AEC 4243 Natural Resource Economics | ABE 4803 Biosystems Simulation - Env. | GR 4613 Applied Climatology |
| ARC 2723 Materials | AEC 4413 Public Problems of Agriculture | BIO 2503 Environmental Quality | GR 4813 Natural Hazards |
| HI 3183 World Environmental History | AEC 8233 Applied Welfare and Env. Economics | BIO 3104 Ecology | GG 3133 Intro Environmental Geology |
| HI 4193 US Environmental History | BL 4263 Environmental Law | BIO 4213 Plant Ecology | GG 3603 Intro to Oceanography |
| HI 4393/6393 Rural America | FO 1101 Forest Resource Survey | BIO 4224 Aquatic Botany | GG 3613 Water Resources |
| HI 8803 Special Topics Courses | FO 4343 Forest Administration and Organization | BIO 4324 Soil Microbiology (same as PSS 4314) | GG 4304 Principles Sediment Deposition I |
| HI 8973 US Environmental and Agricultural History | FO 4413 Natural Resource Policy | CE 4513 Engineering Hydrology | GG 4443 Principles Sediment Deposition II |
| HS/ID 3673 Environments for Special Needs | FO/NREC 4353 Natural Resource Law | CE 4863 Water and Wastewater Engineering | GG 4423 Chemical Hydrogeology |
| LA 4463 Community Food Systems | LA 3623 Urban Planning | CE 4893 Hazardous Waste Management | GG 8233 Environmental Geosciences |
| LA 4843 Sustainable Communities | LA 8731 Seminar in Community Based Planning | CE 2803 Environmental Engineering Issues | GG 4523 Coastal Environments |
| PHI 3313 Environmental Ethics | SO 4173 Environment-Society | CE 3501 Water Resource Engineering Lab | GG 4613 Physical Hydrogeology |
| REL 3113 Religions and Environment | SO 4703 Population Problems | CE 3503 Water Resource Engineering | LA 1333 Landscape Systems |
| CE 3801 Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Engineering Lab | LA 4514 Ecological Planting Design | ||
| CE 3823 Environmental Engineering | LA 4753 Sustainable Landscape Management | ||
| CE 4523 Open Channel Hydraulics | LA 8711 Seminar in Watershed Management | ||
| CE 4533 Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering | ME 4353 Alt Energy Sources | ||
| CE 4843 Environmental Engineering Chemistry | ME 4543 Combustion Engines | ||
| CE 4883 Engineered Environmental Systems | PSS 3133 Intro to Weed Science | ||
| CHE 4423 Fundamental of Industrial Corrosion | PSS 3303 Soils | ||
| CHE 4613 Air Pollution Control Design | PSS 4313 Soil Fertility | ||
| CHE 4683 Fund of Biofuels Production | PSS 4314 Soil Microbiology (same as BIO 4324/6324) | ||
| CHE 4990 Special Topics in CHE - Fund of Biorefineries | PSS 4333 Soil Conservation | ||
| CHE 4673 Industrial Microbiology | PSS 4153 Sustainable Agroecology | ||
| CH 4303 Environmental Chemistry | PSS 4363 Sustainable Nursery Production | ||
| CVM 4513 Environmental Toxicology | PSS/ABE 2543 Precision Agric. I | ||
| ECE 4613 Power Transmission Systems | PSS/ABE 4543 Precision Agric. II | ||
| IE 4543 Logistics Engineering | SBP 1103 Intro to Sustainable Bioproducts | ||
| FNH 4773 Intro. to Environmental Health | SBP 3123 Biomass to Bioproducts | ||
| FO 4123 Forest Ecology | SBP 4213 Deterioration and Preservation of Biomaterials | ||
| FO 4473 GIS for Natural Resource Management | SBP 4313 Bioproducts and the Environment | ||
| FO 4483 Forest Soils | SBP 8013 Advanced Wood Science and Technology | ||
| FO 8163 Nonmarket Forest Values | SBP 8133 Environmental Issues in SBP | ||
| FO 8323 Forest Ecophysiology | WFA 4183 Principles and Practices of Aquaculture | ||
| FO 8333 Silviculture for Multiple Ecosystem Services | WFA 4373 Principles of Conserv Ag | ||
| FO 8433 Ecological Silviculture | WFA 4463 Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management | ||
| FO 8443 International Forest Resources and Trade | WFA 4623 Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 3113 Forest Recreation Management | WFA 4633 Problem Solving in Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 4313 Spatial Technology for Natural Resource Management | WFA 4881 Current Topics in Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 4463 Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management | |||
Environment and Sustainability Minor
The Environment and Sustainability Minor is a 16-credit hour, multi-disciplinary program open to all undergraduate majors in good standing.
Curriculum | Download Curricula
Required Courses (4 hours):
- Introduction to Environmental Science (ENS 2103)
- Introduction to Environmental Science Lab (ENS 2101) or ENS 4102 Practicum
Electives (12 hours):
Student must take three hours from each of three categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science and Engineering. The final 3 hours course may be chosen from any category not directly related to the student’s major.
| Humanities Electives | Social Sciences Electives | Science and Engineering Electives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AN 3163 Maritime and Fishing People | AEC 2223 Sustainability Economics | ABE 2873 Land Surveying | FO/PSS/ECE/GR 4411 Remote Sensing Policy |
| AN 8123 Environmental Anthropology | AEC 2611 Environmental Economics and Sustainability Seminar | ABE 3303 Transport in Bio Engineering | GR 2313 Maps and Remote Sensing |
| AN 8523 Environmental Archaeology | AEC 3233 Intro to Environmental Economics and Policy | ABE 4163 Machinery for Agro-Ecosystems | GR 3113 Conservation of Natural Resources |
| AN/SO 4173 Environment-Society | AEC 4233 Environmental Economics | ABE 4263 Soil and Water Management | GR 4643 Physical Climatology |
| ARC 2723 Materials | AEC 4243 Natural Resource Economics | ABE 4803 Biosystems Simulation - Env. | GR 4613 Applied Climatology |
| ARC 2713 Passive Building Systems | AEC 4413 Public Problems of Agriculture | BIO 2503 Environmental Quality | GR 4813 Natural Hazards |
| HI 3183 World Environmental History | AEC 8233 Applied Welfare and Env. Economics | BIO 3104 Ecology | GG 3133 Intro Environmental Geology |
| HI 4193 US Environmental History | BL 4263 Environmental Law | BIO 4213 Plant Ecology | GG 3603 Intro to Oceanography |
| HI 4393/6393 Rural America | FO 1101 Forest Resource Survey | BIO 4224 Aquatic Botany | GG 3613 Water Resources |
| HI 8803 Special Topics Courses | FO 4343 Forest Administration and Organization | BIO 4324 Soil Microbiology (same as PSS 4314) | GG 4304 Principles Sediment Deposition I |
| HI 8973 US Environmental and Agricultural History | FO 4413 Natural Resource Policy | CE 4513 Engineering Hydrology | GG 4443 Principles Sediment Deposition II |
| HS/ID 3673 Environments for Special Needs | FO/NREC 4353 Natural Resource Law | CE 4863 Water and Wastewater Engineering | GG 4423 Chemical Hydrogeology |
| LA 4463 Community Food Systems | LA 3623 Urban Planning | CE 4893 Hazardous Waste Management | GG 8233 Environmental Geosciences |
| LA 4843 Sustainable Communities | LA 8731 Seminar in Community Based Planning | CE 2803 Environmental Engineering Issues | GG 4523 Coastal Environments |
| PHI 3313 Environmental Ethics | SO 4173 Environment-Society | CE 3501 Water Resource Engineering Lab | GG 4613 Physical Hydrogeology |
| REL 3113 Religions and Environment | SO 4703 Population Problems | CE 3503 Water Resource Engineering | LA 1333 Landscape Systems |
| CE 3801 Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Engineering Lab | LA 4514 Ecological Planting Design | ||
| CE 3823 Environmental Engineering | LA 4753 Sustainable Landscape Management | ||
| CE 4523 Open Channel Hydraulics | LA 8711 Seminar in Watershed Management | ||
| CE 4533 Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering | ME 4353 Alt Energy Sources | ||
| CE 4843 Environmental Engineering Chemistry | ME 4543 Combustion Engines | ||
| CE 4883 Engineered Environmental Systems | PSS 3133 Intro to Weed Science | ||
| CHE 4423 Fundamental of Industrial Corrosion | PSS 3303 Soils | ||
| CHE 4613 Air Pollution Control Design | PSS 4313 Soil Fertility | ||
| CHE 4683 Fund of Biofuels Production | PSS 4314 Soil Microbiology (same as BIO 4324/6324) | ||
| CHE 4990 Special Topics in CHE - Fund of Biorefineries | PSS 4333 Soil Conservation | ||
| CHE 4673 Industrial Microbiology | PSS 4153 Sustainable Agroecology | ||
| CH 4303 Environmental Chemistry | PSS 4363 Sustainable Nursery Production | ||
| CVM 4513 Environmental Toxicology | PSS/ABE 2543 Precision Agric. I | ||
| ECE 4613 Power Transmission Systems | PSS/ABE 4543 Precision Agric. II | ||
| IE 4543 Logistics Engineering | SBP 1103 Intro to Sustainable Bioproducts | ||
| FNH 4773 Intro. to Environmental Health | SBP 3123 Biomass to Bioproducts | ||
| FO 4123 Forest Ecology | SBP 4213 Deterioration and Preservation of Biomaterials | ||
| FO 4473 GIS for Natural Resource Management | SBP 4313 Bioproducts and the Environment | ||
| FO 4483 Forest Soils | SBP 8013 Advanced Wood Science and Technology | ||
| FO 8163 Nonmarket Forest Values | SBP 8133 Environmental Issues in SBP | ||
| FO 8323 Forest Ecophysiology | WFA 4183 Principles and Practices of Aquaculture | ||
| FO 8333 Silviculture for Multiple Ecosystem Services | WFA 4373 Principles of Conserv Ag | ||
| FO 8433 Ecological Silviculture | WFA 4463 Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management | ||
| FO 8443 International Forest Resources and Trade | WFA 4623 Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 3113 Forest Recreation Management | WFA 4633 Problem Solving in Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 4313 Spatial Technology for Natural Resource Management | WFA 4881 Current Topics in Conservation Biology | ||
| FO/NREC 4463 Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management | |||
Graduate Minor
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