Degree Requirements

Students receiving the Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies must complete 120 total credit hours including:

• General Education Core (30 cr.)
• Foreign Language Requirement (14 cr.)
• Bachelor of Arts Distribution Requirement (15 cr.)
• Sustainability Core (42 cr.)
• Electives as needed to complete 120 total credit hours

• A minimum of 30 credit hours at the 300- or 400-level
• Courses required for the major must be completed with a grade of C or higher
• Courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise noted
• A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required

Sustainability Core

• SUST-S 201 Foundations of Sustainability
• Complete 3 credits from the following
  • GEOG-G 107 Physical Systems of the Environment
  • GEOG-G 108 Physical Systems of the Environment - Lab (2 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 110 Intro to Human Geography
  • GEOG-G 111 Hurricanes (1 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 112 Thunderstorms and Tornadoes (1 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 113 Ozone Hole (1 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 114 Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming (1 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 123 Soil Survey
  • GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society
  • GEOL-G 135 Indiana Geology
  • GEOL-G 136 Indiana Geology - Lab (2 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 101 Intro to Earth Science
  • GEOL-G 107 Earth and our Environment
  • GEOL-G 110 How the Earth Works
  • GEOL-G 115 Intro to Oceanography
  • GEOL-G 185 Global Environmental Change
  • PHYS-P 120 Energy and Technology
• Complete 6 credits from the following (additional courses from this category will count toward Sustainability Electives)
  
  • AHLT-H 331 Environmental Health
  • GEOL-G 400 Energy: Sources and Needs
  • GEOL-G 476 Climate Change Science
  • GEOG-G 303 Weather and Climate Change
  • GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
  • GEOG-G 404 Geography of Soils
  • GEOG-G 475 Climate Change
  • BIOL-L 333 Environmental Science
  • BIOL-L 350 Environmental Biology
  • BIOL-L 325 Ecological Principles
  • PLSC-B 364 Summer Flowering Plants
  • SUST-C 330 Scientific Foundations in Sustainability
• Complete 6 credits from the following (additional courses from this category will count toward Sustainability Electives)
  
  • GEOG-G 310 Human Impact on the Environment
  • GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
  • GEOG-G 320 Population Geography
  • POLS-Y 377 Globalization
  • POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
  • POLS-Y 346 Politics in the Developing World
  • PSY-P 488 Environmental Psychology and Sustainable Living
  • SOC-S 308 Global Society
  • SUST-B 190 Sustainable Future
  • SUST-C 340 Social and Behavioral Foundations of Sustainability
• Complete 3 credits from the following (additional courses from this category will count toward Sustainability Electives)
  
  • SUST-C 350 Sustainability in the Arts and Humanities
  • GEOG-G 418 Historical Geography
• Complete 6 credits from the following
  • SOC-S 261 Research Methods in Sociology
  • SOC-S 262 Statistics for Sociology
  • ECON-E 270 Intro to Statistical Theory in Economics and Business
  • GEOG-G 336 Environmental Remote Sensing
  • GEOG-G 337 Computer Cartography and Graphics
  • GEOG-G 338 Geographic Information Science
  • GEOG-G 438 Advanced Geographical Information Science
  • PSY-K 300 Statistical Techniques
  • SUST-C 360 Methods and Applications in Sustainability
• Complete 3 credits from the following
  • ENGL-W 270 Argumentative Writing
  • ENG-W 231 Professional Writing Skills
  • ENG-W 234 Technical Report Writing
  • ENG-W 230 Science Writing
• Complete 3 credits from the following (additional courses from this category will count toward Sustainability Electives)
  
  • BUS-B 399 Human Behavior and Social Institutions
  • GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
  • GEOG-G 331 Economic Geography
  • GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, & Farming Systems
  • PHIL-P 306 Business Ethics
  • SUST-C 370 Business and Economics of Sustainability
• Complete 3 credits from the following (additional courses from this category will count toward Sustainability Electives)
  • SUST-C 490 Capstone in Sustainability
  • SUST-S 491 Internship in Sustainability
• Sustainability Electives - Complete 6 additional credit hours from the noted lists.