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Coursework required for the minor

This 5-course minor will allow students to incorporate sustainability principles into their studies and their lives.

Why Minor in Sustainability?

A minor in Sustainability can inspire you to:

  • Protect the planet
  • Use resources wisely
  • Identify ways to go green
  • Work for environmental justice
  • Appreciate the beauty and complexity of nature
  • Value uniqueness of the planet’s ecosystems
  • Lower your environmental footprint
  • Conserve open spaces
  • Work with nature, the most efficient and beautiful system of all

Minor Course Requirements - 15 hours

All students are required to take courses in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Economics & Public Policy, Social & Ethical Dimensions, and Resource Management as described below. Courses can only be applied to one area.

Sustainability (1 course)

  • SUST 1000: Introduction to Sustainability

Environmental Science (choose 1 course)

One of the following courses is required:

  • BIOL 1330: Environmental Biology
  • CHEM 1010: Chemistry in the Environment and Society
  • GEOL 1010: Environmental Geology
  • GEOL 1100: Earth System Science
  • GEOG 1030: Our Dynamic Planet: Introduction to Physical Geography
  • GEOG 1050: Human-Environment Geography

Economics & Public Policy (choose 1 course)

One of the following courses is required:

  • ECON 4330: Environmental Economics and Sustainability
  • ECON 4320: Natural Resource Economics
  • ENVN 4820: Introduction to Environmental Law and Regulations
  • GEOG 4160: Urban Sustainability
  • GEOG 4350: Global Climate Change
  • PSCI 4270: Global Environmental Politics
  • PSCI 4290: International Development & Sustainability

Social & Ethical Dimensions (choose 1 course)

One of the following courses is required:

  • ENGL 4960: Ecolopgical Literature & Sustainability
  • GEOG 4160: Urban Sustainability
  • HIST 4390: American Environmental History
  • PHIL 3180: Environmental Ethics
  • PSCI 4290: International Development & Sustainability
  • SOC 4760: Environmental Sociology

Social & Ethical Dimensions (choose 1 course)

  • SOC 4760: Environmental Sociology

Natural Resource Management (choose 1 course)

One of the following courses is required:

  • GEOG 3020: Health & Medical Geography
  • BIOL 3030: Microbial Diversity and Ecology
  • CHEM 3030: Environmental Chemistry
  • GEOG 3440: Nebraska Natural Resources Management
  • BIOL 4120: Conservation Biology
  • BIOL 4180: Freshwater Ecology
  • ENVN 4310: Our Energy Future: Society, Environment, Sustainability
  • ENVN 4320: Ecological Sustainability & Human Health
  • GEOG 4330: Soil Genesis
  • GEOG 4350: Global Climate Change
  • GEOG 4010: Conservation of Natural Resources
  • GEOG 4230: Great Plains & Nebraska
  • GEOG 4340: Water Resources
  • GEOL 4640: Critical Zone Science

 

Additional courses may be substituted with the approval of the director. These include:

  • SUST 4090 | Special Topics in Sustainability
  • SUST 4800 | Internship in Sustainability
  • SUST 4900 | Independent Study
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You might be interested in the Sustainability Minor if...

  • Rooftop solar panels make intuitive sense
  • You balk at paying $2.50 for bottled water
  • You were amazed the first time you saw the stars out away from the city
  • You have ever asked yourself what happens to that old iPhone you discarded
  • The summers in Omaha seem hotter than they used to
  • You prefer to see a garden outside your window rather than a parking lot
  • You suspect that climate change might be a problem
  • You want to help improve the state of the earth and be a good environmental citizen

Contact Us

  • Contact: Dr. Dana Richter-Egger
  • Email: drichter-egger@unomaha.edu
  • Phone: 402.554.3643
  • Contact: Ms. Farrah Grant
  • Email: fgrant@unomaha.edu
  • Phone: 402.554.4023

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