Sustainability Dual Major
https://sustainableunh.unh.edu/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.
Requirements
SUST consists of 32 credits, including core and elective courses, and a capstone experience.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the following SUST courses (in order): | ||
| SUST 401 | Surveying Sustainability | 4 |
| SUST 501 | Sustainability Perspectives and Methods | 4 |
| SUST 750 | Sustainability Capstone | 4 |
| Select 20 credits of elective courses 1 | 20 | |
| Total Credits | 32 | |
| 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Biological Systems | ||
| BIOL 541 | Ecology | 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 |
| GEOG 572 | Geography of the Natural Environment | 4 |
| MEFB #515 | Marine Environmental Science and Conservation | 4 |
| MEFB 702 | Sustainable Marine Fisheries | 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 |
| MEFB 772 | Fisheries Biology: Conservation and Management | 3 |
| Social Systems & Humanities | ||
| ADMN 444 | Business for People, Planet, and Profits | 4 |
| ANTH 695 | Globalization and Global Population Health | 4 |
| CLAS 540A | Environment, Technology and Ancient Society: Sustaining Ancient Rome Ecology and Empire | 4 |
| ECON 706 | Economics of Climate Change | 4 |
| ENGL 521 | Nature Writers | 4 |
| ENGL 736 | Environmental Theory | 4 |
| ENGL #747 | Studies in American Poetry | 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 |
| 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 Internship | 8 |
| NR 602 | Natural Resources and Environmental Policy | 4 |
| NR 643 | Economics of Forestry | 4 |
| NR #701 | Ecological Sustainability and Values | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| TOUR 767 | Social Impact Assessment | 4 |
| Special Topics WS 505/798 Environmental & Food Justice are approved electives. | ||