Sustainability Dual Major
https://sustainableunh.unh.edu/sdm
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.
Requirements
SUST consists of 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 | 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 |
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Natural Biological Systems | ||
BIOL 541 | General Ecology | 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 |
SAFS 729 | Agricultural Waste Management | 4 |
Social Systems & Humanities | ||
ADMN 444 | Business for People, Planet, and Profits | 4 |
ADMN 598 | Topics | 1-4 |
ADMN 798 | Topics | 1-4 |
ANTH 695 | Globalization and Global Population Health | 4 |
CLAS 540A | Environment, Technology and Ancient Society: Sustaining Ancient Rome Ecology and Empire | 4 |
ECON 698 | Topics | 4 |
ECON 706 | Economics of Climate Change | 4 |
ENGL 521 | Nature Writers | 4 |
ENGL 747 | Studies in American Poetry | 4 |
ENGL 787 | English Major Seminar | 4 |
EREC 444 | The New Pirates of the Caribbean | 4 |
EREC 760 | Ecological-Economic Modeling for Decision Making | 4 |
GEOG 673 | Political Ecology | 4 |
HMP 715 | Environmental Health | 4 |
MGT 798 | Topics | 4 |
NR 602 | Natural Resources and Environmental Policy | 4 |
NR 701 | Ecological Sustainability and Values | 4 |
NR 720 | International Environmental Politics and Policies for the 21st Century | 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 #547 | Race and Justice in the Americas: Insights from Film, Literature, and Politics | 4 |
POLT 548 | Drug Wars | 4 |
POLT 567 | Politics of Global Resources | 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 |
SOC 444A | 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 |