Sustainability Minor

The minor in sustainability is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the three pillars of sustainability-economic growth, environmental stewardship, and social progress, allowing graduates to fully understand, articulate, and implement sustainable practices that will help our society face sustainability-related challenges.

Program outcomes:
- Explain the interdependency of nature and society and of the fundamental linkages between ecological, political, social, and economic systems
- Analyze and make decisions regarding the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs associated with sustainability challenges
- Identify the interaction between the key concepts of ecology, economics, political science, sociology, and other disciplines central to sustainability
- Come to see themselves are global citizens and understand the wide variety of perspectives, preferences, and priorities among stakeholders, and of the need for communication and collaboration among them to influence the sustainability of our society
- Value to interaction between experts in disciplines central to sustainability in leading the world to a sustainable state
- Formulate useful questions about the sustainability of a practice or product. Be able to identify important sources of information to evaluate new practices and their sustainability