Offered by the Sustainability Council
Sustainability Council: Kathleen F. Bush, Brian W. Eisenhauer, Patrick May, Mary Ann McGarry, Maria A. Sanders, Amy M. Villamagna, Stephen W. Whitman
Sustainability perspectives and practices are emerging as essential tools in the 21st century at local, national, and global scales. To prepare graduates from all fields to create and work in a more sustainable world, this interdisciplinary minor allows all students the opportunity to develop a solid mastery of the fundamental components of sustainability and its applications across multiple disciplines. Students are provided opportunities through course selection and capstone experiences to develop a focus that compliments the content of their major curriculum and provides them with skills to directly apply to their future professional and personal practices.
The program allows for student choice while maintaining a focus that ensures all students learn core sustainability concepts. Within the minor all students must take the Issues in Sustainability and the Capstone courses, and no more than six credits in the minor can be double counted with a student’s major. Four of the six classes taken in the minor must be at the 3000 or 4000 level. Students interested in the minor are encouraged to contact a member of the Sustainability Council for assistance in planning their studies.
Please see complete information on all of the requirements to earn a minor at Plymouth State University.
Course | Title | Credits |
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Minor Requirements | ||
SU 2111 | Introduction to Sustainability Studies | 3-4 |
or ISDI 2100 | Issues in Sustainability (SSDI) | |
Complete two credits of | ||
SU 3113 | Conversations in Sustainability 2 | 2 |
Sustainability Core | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3-4 | |
SU 3333 | Environmental Humanities (WRCO) (Complete one course from the following:) | |
SU 3112 | Social Science Perspectives on Sustainability (DICO,GACO) | |
SU 3115 | Economic and Ecological Sustainability (GACO,QRCO) | |
PBH 2000 | Foundations of Public Health | |
EPL 3270 | Sustainability in Residences | |
SO 3605 | Sustainability in Practice (WECO) | |
SU 4111 | Sustainability Project Design | |
Environmental Systems | ||
Complete one course from the following: | 3-4 | |
BI 2070 | Botany | |
BI 3240 | Conservation (DICO,GACO,INCO,INCP) 1 | |
BI 4050 | Ecology (QRCO,WRCO) 1 | |
BI 4800 | Current Environmental Issues 1 | |
CH 3600 | Environmental Chemistry (INCO,INCP) 1 | |
EPL 3150 | Introduction to Permaculture | |
ESDI 2500 | Environmental Science (SIDI) | |
ESDI 2610 | Earth Systems Science: The Hazardous Earth (SIDI) | |
ESP 3200 | Energy and Society | |
GEDI 1200 | Environmental Geography (SIDI) | |
MT 2000 | Fundamentals of Meteorology and Climatology (GACO) | |
MT 4440 | Climate Change (INCO,INCP) 1 | |
Social and Economic Systems | ||
Complete one of the following: | 3-4 | |
SU 4111 | Sustainability Project Design | |
SU 3333 | Environmental Humanities (WRCO) | |
SU 3115 | Economic and Ecological Sustainability (GACO,QRCO) | |
AR 3575 | Art and Sustainability | |
BU 3220 | Business and the Environment | |
EPL 3100 | Environmental Planning 1 | |
EPL 3270 | Sustainability in Residences | |
ESP 3270 | Sustainable Structures | |
HIDI 1212 | The American West (PPDI) | |
PY 3310 | Environmental Ethics (INCO,INCP,WECO) | |
PY 3330 | Business Ethics (DICO,INCO,INCP) | |
PY 3610 | Philosophy of Technology (INCO,INCP,TECO) | |
SO 3605 | Sustainability in Practice (WECO) | |
SU 3112 | Social Science Perspectives on Sustainability (DICO,GACO) | |
Total Credits | 14-18 |
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Course has prerequisites
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This course is taken twice as part of a speaker series. Must be taken with a different speaker.
Four of the required six courses must be taken at the 3000/4000 level. No more than six credits may double count with the student’s major.