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-C 301 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 one introductory level sustainability science course from the following:
  
  • GEOG-G 107 Physical Systems of the Enviroment 
  • GEOG-G 108 Physical Systems of the Environment lab 
  • GEOG-G 110 Human Geography in a Changing World
  • GEOL-G 101 Introduction to Earth Science 
  • GEOL-G 185 Global Environmental Change 
• Complete one upper-level sustainability science course from the following: 
  • GEOL-G 400 Energy: Sources and Needs
  • BIOL-L 325 Ecological Principles
• Complete two courses in the Social & Behavioral Foundations of Sustainability from the following:
  
  • AAAD-A 301 Community Planning and Development 
  • AAAD-D 3XX Minority People in the United States 
  • AAAD-A 3XX The Urban Community 
  • CHRI-C 3XX Topics in Latino Studies - Sustainability related topics
  • GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
  • POLS-Y 308 Urban Politics 
  • POLS-Y 346 Politics of the Developing World
  • SOC-S 308 Global Society
  • SUST-C 340 Social and Behavioral Foundations of Sustainability
• Complete 3 credits in Arts and Humanities and Sustainability from the following:
  
  • SUST-C 350 Sustainability in the Arts and Humanities
  • ENG-L 301 Early British Literature Survey: Through the eyes of Animals 
• 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 338 Geographic Information Science
  • GEOG-G 438 Advanced Geographical Information Science
  • SUST-C 320 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
  • ENG-W 250 Writing in Context - Nature Writing 
• Complete 3 credits in Business and Economics of Sustainability from the following:
  
  • GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
  • PHIL-P 306 Business Ethics
  • SUST-C 360 Business and Economics of Sustainability
• Complete Sustainability Capstone 
  • SUST-C 490 Capstone in Sustainability
• Sustainability Electives - Complete 6 additional credit hours from the noted lists.