Undergraduate Course Catalog 2016-2017

Special University Programs

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The undergraduate sustainability dual major provides an innovative pathway for emerging leaders to gain the skills and knowledge needed to be agents of change in a complex, ever-changing global environment. Students from any UNH college or major can pair the sustainability dual major with the first major. From local to global, you’ll learn to analyze, evaluate, critique, and create new ideas and models around sustainability. As a cross-disciplinary field of study and practice, you’ll make connections across issues of science and ethics, policy and technology, and culture and history to better understand and take action on pressing issues of our time.

Study grand challenges in a flexible format
Apply your principles and passions to your academic work
Add value to your primary major
Work collaboratively across disciplines with students and faculty
Develop skills needed to create sustainability solutions in any profession
Prepare for a career in the expanding sustainability field
Hone your leadership abilities to help create a better world

Requirements
SUST consists of 32 credits, including core and elective courses, and a capstone experience.

Students are required to take three (3) SUST courses (in order)

SUST 401, Surveying Sustainability
SUST 501, Sustainability Perspectives & Methods
SUST 750, Sustainability Capstone

Students choose elective courses to complete the remaining 20 credits for the dual major. All SUST majors will take at least one (1) elective course from the natural & biological sciences list and at least one (1) elective course from the social science and humanities list.

Approved Electives

Natural Biological Systems
BIOL 541, General Ecology
CIE 781, Green Building Design
ECOG 401, Introduction to EcoGastronomy
ENE 797/CIE 896, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
ESCI 405, Global Environmental Change
NR 435, Contemporary Conservation Issues & Environmental Awareness
NR 502, Forest Ecosystems and Environmental Change
NR 507, Introduction to Our Energy Grid
NR 650, Principles of Conservation Biology
NR 703/803, Watershed Water Quality Management (WI)
NR 785/885, Systems Thinking for Sustainable Solutions
NUTR 595, Mediterranean Diet & Culture
NUTR 730/830, From Seed to Sea
SAFS 405, Sustainable & Organic Food Production
SAFS 410, A Taste of the Tropics
SAFS 502, Agroecology: Principles of Agroecosystem Science & Management
SAFS 510, Agriculture and Development in the Neotropics

Social Systems & Humanities
CLAS 540A, Sustaining Ancient Rome
ECON 698, The Social Economy
ECON 706, Economics of Climate Change
ENGL 747, Studies in American Poetry: Environmental Poetry
ENGL/AM Studies 521, The Nature Writers
ENGL/WS 787, English Major Seminar: The Writer's Cabin
EREC 444, New Pirates of the Caribbean
GEOG 650, Field Methods in Geography
GEOG 673, Political Ecology
NR 701, Ecological Sustainability and Values
NR 784/884, Ecological Ethics and Values
NR 787, Advanced Topics in Sustainable Energy
PHIL 450, Environmental Ethics
POLT 444, Politics and Policy in a Warming World
POLT 547, Race and Justice in the Americas
POLT 548, The Drug Wars: Views from the South and the North
POLT 567, Politics of Global Resources
POLT 750/850, The Politics of Poverty
POLT 751, Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy
POLT 780, International Environmental Politics, Policy and Law
RMP 511, Issues of Wilderness & Nature in American Society
SOC 444A, Society in the Arctic
SOC 565, Environment and Society
SOC 665, Environmental Sociology
SOC 730/830, Communities & the Environment
TOUR 767-RAM 867, Social Impact Assessment