Sustainability Dual Major
https://www.unh.edu/sustainability/sdm
Students from any UNH college or major can pair the sustainability dual major with their first major. From local to global, you'll learn to analyze, evaluate, and create new ideas and models around sustainability. As a cross-disciplinary and applied 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. Solving real-life problems requires the skills and perspectives of people from multiple disciplines and backgrounds. A sustainability dual major provides the skills and knowledge needed to understand these systems, identify relevant environmental and social issues, and become agents of change in a complex world.
Degree Requirements
All Major, Option and Elective Requirements as indicated.
*Major GPA requirements as indicated.
Sustainability Dual Major Requirements
The dual major requires 32 credits, including core and elective courses, and a capstone experience.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Complete the following SUST courses (in order): | ||
SUST 401 | Exploring Sustainability | 4 |
SUST 501 | Sustainability in Action | 4 |
SUST 750 | Sustainability Capstone | 4 |
Select 20 credits of elective courses 1 | 20 | |
Total Credits | 32 |
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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
Code | Title | Credits |
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Natural Biological Systems | ||
BIOL 541W | Ecology | 0 or 4 |
CEE 520 | Environmental Pollution and Protection: A Global Context | 4 |
CEE 705 | Introduction to Sustainable Engineering | 3 |
CEE 706 | Environmental Life Cycle Assessment | 3 |
CEE 719 | Green Building Design | 3 |
ECOG 401 | Introduction to Ecogastronomy | 4 |
ESCI 405 | Global Environmental Change | 4 |
ESCI 765 | Paleoclimatology | 3 |
GEOG 572 | Geography of the Natural Environment | 4 |
GEOG 670 | Climate and Society | 4 |
HLS 580 | Environmental and Human Security | 4 |
MARI 705 | Introduction to Marine Policy: Understanding US Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Policy | 3 |
MEFB 702 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries | 4 |
MEFB 772 | Fisheries Biology: Conservation and Management | 4 |
NR 435 | Contemporary Conservation Issues and Environmental Awareness | 4 |
NR 502 | Forest Ecosystems and Environmental Change | 4 |
NR 507 | Introduction to our Energy System and Sustainable Energy | 4 |
NR 650 | Principles of Conservation Biology | 4 |
NR 703 | Watershed Water Quality Management | 4 |
NR 785 | Systems Thinking for Sustainable Solutions | 4 |
NUTR 595 | Mediterranean Diet and Culture | 4 |
NUTR 730 | From Seed to Sea: Examining Sustainable Food Systems | 4 |
SAFS 405 | Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production | 4 |
SAFS 410 | A Taste of the Tropics | 4 |
SAFS 502 | Agroecology | 4 |
SAFS #510 | Agriculture and Development in the Neotropics | 4 |
SAFS 632 | Urban Agriculture | 4 |
SUST 600 | Sustainability Independent Study | 1-4 |
SUST 605 | Sustainability Internship | 1-4 |
Social Systems & Humanities | ||
ADMN 444 | Business for People, Planet, and Profits | 4 |
ANTH 695 | Globalization and Global Population Health | 4 |
ANTH 697 | Special Topics | 4 |
DS 620 | Topics in Decision Sciences (Supply Chain Management) | 1-4 |
CLAS 540A | Environment, Technology and Ancient Society: Sustaining Ancient Rome Ecology and Empire | 4 |
ECON 633 | Microfinance | 4 |
ECON 706 | Economics of Climate Change | 4 |
ENGL 521 | Nature Writers | 4 |
ENGL 736 | Environmental Theory | 4 |
ENGL 787 | English Major Seminar | 4 |
EREC 444 | The New Pirates of the Caribbean | 4 |
EREC 572 | Introduction to Natural Resource Economics | 4 |
EREC #760 | Ecological-Economic Modeling for Decision Making | 4 |
FIN 620 | Topics in Finance I | 2-4 |
FIN 720 | Topics in Finance II (The Finance of CSR and ESG Investing ) | 4 |
GEOG 405 | There Is No Planet B | 4 |
GEOG 590 | Field Research | 4 |
GEOG 673 | Political Ecology | 4 |
GEOG 685 | Population and Development | 4 |
HMP 501 | Epidemiology and Community Medicine | 4 |
HMP 715 | Environmental Health | 4 |
INCO 505A | Semester in the City Becoming a Problem Solver | 4 |
INCO 505B | Social Innovator's Toolbox | 4 |
INCO 505I | Semester in the City: Boston and SITC @ UNH Internship | 8 |
MKTG 620 | Topics in Marketing (Sustainability and Marketing ) | 4 |
NAIS 400 | Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies | 4 |
NR 602 | Natural Resources and Environmental Policy | 4 |
NR 643 | Economics of Forestry | 4 |
NR 720 | International Environmental Politics and Policies for the 21st Century | 4 |
NR 724 | Resolving Environmental Conflicts | 4 |
NR 784 | Sustainable Living - Global Perspectives | 4 |
NR 787 | Advanced Topics in Sustainable Energy | 4 |
PHIL 431 | Business Ethics | 4 |
PAUL 670 | BiP-Analytical Intelligence Topics (B-Impact Clinic, Carbon Clinic ) | 2 |
PHIL 450 | Environmental Ethics | 4 |
POLT 444 | Politics and Policy in a Warming World | 4 |
POLT 548 | Drug Wars | 4 |
POLT 750 | Politics of Poverty | 4 |
POLT 751 | Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy | 4 |
RMP 511 | Issues of Wilderness and Nature in American Society | 4 |
RUSS #425M | Topics in Russian Culture and Society in Moscow | 4 |
SOC 444A | Honors/Society in the Arctic | 4 |
SOC 565 | Environment and Society | 4 |
SOC 665 | Environmental Sociology | 4 |
SOC 730 | Communities and the Environment | 4 |
SUST 600 | Sustainability Independent Study | 1-4 |
SUST 605 | Sustainability Internship | 1-4 |
TOUR 767 | Social Impact Assessment | 4 |
WS 505 | Survey in Women's Studies | 4 |
WS 798 | Colloquium | 4 |
Comprehend grand challenges
- Students gain knowledge of the fundamental aspects of complex sustainability challenges.
Think in systems
- Students have an ability to analyze and synthesize the interconnections among environmental, social, and economic aspects of complex systems, as well as how problems manifest at different scales (local to global) and at different times (connections between past, present, and future).
Advocate for values
- Students can identify, assess, respect, and navigate the diverse values, interests, and types of knowledge inherent in sustainability challenges, while simultaneously addressing power imbalances and promoting social justice.
Apply knowledge to a lifetime of action
- Personal practice: Students understand how sustainability impacts their lives and can assess how their actions impact sustainability at personal, institutional, and societal levels.
- Professional practice: All students, regardless of major, understand how their professional work contributes to sustainable communities, can apply disciplinary and other forms of knowledge and skills to contribute to sustainable solutions.
- Collaborative practice: Students learn how to collaborate across disciplines and across sectors to jointly determine project goals, create knowledge, and develop innovative and effective solutions to sustainability challenges.