Global Perspectives on Sustainability Minor
For information, contact the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, 118 Shideler Hall, 513-529-5811.
This interdisciplinary minor introduces students to the foundations of environmental sustainability and its complexities with an emphasis on the approaches taken by people living under different geographic and economic conditions. Of special importance in this minor is increasing student understanding of the issues and problems faced by the majority of global citizens who live in lower-income countries or less industrially-developed parts of the world.
Program Requirements
(22 semester hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Background courses | ||
| Select one from each category of the following: | 6 | |
Category I: Natural Science | ||
| Environmental Biology | ||
| Plants, Humanity, and Environment | ||
| Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation | ||
| Environmental Geology | ||
| Energy and Environment | ||
Category II: Social Science | ||
| Global Cultural Diversity | ||
| Global Forces, Local Diversity | ||
| Introduction to International Studies | ||
| Current World Problems | ||
| World Politics | ||
| Sustainability Foundation | ||
| Select the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Environment and Sustainability | ||
| Advanced courses on Environmental and Sustainability Issues | ||
| Select at least six hours of the following: | 6 | |
| Environmental Systems I | ||
| Developing Solutions in Global Health | ||
| Ecological Anthropology | ||
| Field Ecology | ||
| Conservation Education and Community Engagement | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Identity, Race, Gender, Class | ||
| Industrial Environmental Control | ||
| Pollution Prevention in Environmental Management | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Global Perspectives on Natural Disasters | ||
| Women, Gender, and the Environment | ||
| Global Periphery's Urbanization | ||
| Global Poverty | ||
| Water and Society | ||
| Geoenvironmental Field Methods | ||
| Environmental Protocols | ||
| Environment, Society & Justice | ||
| Environmental Communication | ||
| Principles and Applications of Environmental Science | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Sustainability in Practice | ||
| Sustainability Perspectives in Resources and Business | ||
| Issues in the Global South | ||
| Environmental Philosophy | ||
| Geography and Gender | ||
| Advanced Area Focus: (this course should complement the field of study) | ||
| Select at least 3 hours from the following: | 3 | |
| Native North America: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| Latin America: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| The Middle East: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| South Asia: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Family Poverty | ||
| Geography of East Asia | ||
| Indigenous Peoples and Their Sacred Lands | ||
| Geography of the Silk Road (The Heart of Asia) | ||
| Global Periphery's Urbanization | ||
| Modern Chinese History | ||
| Issues in the Global South | ||
| Race, Science, and Disease in the Americas | ||
| Politics of Eastern Europe | ||
| Politics of the Middle East | ||
| Politics of Latin America | ||
| Global Gender Politics | ||
| Indigenous Peoples and Their Sacred Lands | ||
| Field courses or internship | ||
| Students must complete appropriate field courses, or an internship, for a minimum of four hours (e.g. GEO/GLG/IES 412). Work with the minor advisor to get approval. | 4 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 22 | |