The School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) seeks to prepare students to meet today’s pressing environmental challenges. Using an interdisciplinary approach within a framework of sustainability, students will be led in innovative research leading to the knowledge and understanding needed to approach and solve problems of the human-environment interaction. SoGES’ vision encompasses laying the foundation and defining the principles and practices that will ensure long-term environmental sustainability, while continuing to meet the needs of people around the earth.
Effective Fall 2023
Students must satisfactorily complete the total credits required for the minor. Minors and interdisciplinary minors require 12 or more upper-division (300- to 400-level) credits.
Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| GES 101 | Foundations of Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| GES 470 | Applications of Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| Selected Courses | ||
| Select one course from each Group A, B, and C. At least 3 credits of these courses must be upper-division (300- to 400-level). Courses may not fulfill two categories. | ||
| Group A: Society and Social Processes | 3 | |
| Plants and Civilizations (GT-SS3) | ||
| Cultures and the Global System (GT-SS3) | ||
| Human Ecology | ||
| Indigenous Ecologies and the Modern World | ||
| Indigenous Environmental Stewardship | ||
| Impacts on Ancient Environments | ||
| Border Crossings--People/Politics/Culture (GT-SS3) | ||
| Global Environmental Justice Movements | ||
| Introduction to Geography (GT-SS2) | ||
| Cultural Geography | ||
| American Environmental History | ||
| World Environmental History, 1500-Present | ||
| Topics in Organic Agriculture | ||
| Natural Resources History and Policy | ||
| Natural Resource Policy and Sustainability | ||
| Ethics of Sustainability | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy | ||
| Global Environmental Politics | ||
| Air, Climate, and Energy Policy Analysis | ||
| Environmental Politics in Developing World | ||
| Globalization, Sustainability, and Justice | ||
| Environmental Psychology | ||
| Environment, Food, and Social Justice (GT-SS3) | ||
| Population-Natural Resources and Environment | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Food, Agriculture and Global Society | ||
| Environmental and Natural Resource Sociology | ||
| Water and Social Justice | ||
| Sociology of Disaster | ||
| Group B: Biological and Physical Processes | 3 | |
| Impacts on Ancient Environments | ||
| Ecology and Management of Weeds | ||
| Theory of Population and Evolutionary Ecology | ||
| Stream Biology and Ecology | ||
| Environmental Chemistry | ||
| Environmental Health--Water Quality | ||
| Human Disease and the Environment | ||
| Environmental Contaminants | ||
| Physical Geography | ||
| The Blue Planet - Geology of Our Environment (GT-SC2) | ||
| Introduction to Geography (GT-SS2) | ||
| Sustainable Watersheds (GT-SC2) | ||
| Climate Change: Science, Policy, Implications | ||
| Environmental Issues in Agriculture (GT-SS3) | ||
| Fundamentals of Ecology (GT-SC2) | ||
| Design and Nature | ||
| Ecology of Landscapes | ||
| Ecology | ||
| Environmental Conservation (GT-SC2) | ||
| Global Environmental Systems (GT-SC2) | ||
| Wildland Ecosystems in a Changing World | ||
| Microbiology for Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Composting Principles and Practices | ||
| Pedology | ||
| Group C: Economy and Profitability | 3 | |
| Agricultural and Resource Economics (GT-SS1) | ||
| Issues in Environmental Economics (GT-SS1) | ||
| Introduction-Economics of Natural Resources | ||
| Economics of Outdoor Recreation | ||
| International Agricultural Trade | ||
| Water Resource Economics | ||
| Ag- and Resource-Based Economic Development | ||
| Economics of the Forest Environment | ||
| Social and Sustainable Venturing | ||
| Natural Resource Policy and Sustainability | ||
| Group D: Skills | ||
| Select at least one upper-division course (minimum of 3 credits) from Group D not taken in another category: | 3 | |
| Water Resource Economics | ||
| Art and Environment | ||
| Theory of Population and Evolutionary Ecology | ||
| Sustainable Civil/Environmental Engineering | ||
| Travel Abroad-Sustainable Building | ||
| Sustainable Practice-Design and Construction | ||
| Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation | ||
| Spatial Analysis with GIS | ||
| Organic Greenhouse Production | ||
| Diagnosis and Treatment in Organic Fields | ||
| Landscape Irrigation and Water Conservation | ||
| Design and Nature | ||
| Introduction to Geospatial Science | ||
| Population-Natural Resources and Environment | ||
| Sociology of Disaster | ||
| Pedology | ||
| Upper-Division Elective | ||
| Select 3 upper-division credits from Groups A-D with a subject code not previously taken or any upper-division GES course | 3 | |
| Program Total Credits: | 21 | |