2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Climate Change Studies, Minor

The Climate Change Studies Minor provides an interdisciplinary understanding of global climate change and its impacts. This versatile 18-credit minor requires 6 credits of foundational courses and 12 credits of electives that can be tailored to fit students' academic and career goals. Electives may be selected from the list below or upon the approval of a Climate Change Studies program advisor.

Of these 12 credits, no more than 7 may be from the same course designator.

Minor Requirements (18 credits)

Foundational Courses (6 cr)

GEOG 109/CCS 109/SUST 109Introduction to Climate Change

3

CCS 121Introduction to Climate Change Science

3

CCS 122Climate Change Impacts

3

CCS 209/GEOG 209/SUST 209Climatology

3

Select 6 credits from the list of courses above.

Elective Courses (12 cr)

BIO 132Introductory Ecology

3

BIO 133Laboratory in Introductory Ecology

1

BIO 436Environmental Resources and Management

3

CE 376Environmental Engineering

3

CHEM 406Environmental Chemistry

3

CM 110The Built Environment and Global Society

3

COMM 451Environmental Communication

3

ECON 380Food Economics

3

GSCI 102Environmental Justice in the 21st Century

3

GSCI 129Introduction to Meteorology

4

GSCI 131Environmental Geoscience

3

GSCI 135Environmental Geoscience Laboratory

1

GSCI 141Earth and Life History

3

GSCI 145Earth and Life History Laboratory

1

GSCI 424Geomorphology

4

GSCI 425Glacial and Quaternary Geology

3

GSCI 431Introduction to Hydrogeology

4

GSCI 441Environmental Geochemistry

3

GSCI 455Energy Science and Technology

3

GEOG 433Issues in Environmental Protection

3

GEOG 445Environmental Planning

3

GEOG 275/SUST 275Soils and Vegetation Sustainability

3

SUST 275/GEOG 275Sustainable Soils & Vegetation

3

PHIL 241Environmental Ethics

3

PS 455Environmental Politics and Policy

3

PSY 125Environment & Behavior

3

SOC 355The Culture and Politics of Food

4

SUST 100Search in Sustainability

3

SUST 140Introduction to Sustainability

3

SUST 442Field Methods in Sustainability

3

SUST 459Field Studies in Sustainability

3

SUST 469Readings in Sustainability

1-3

SUST 472Topics in Sustainability

3

SUST 475/GEOG 475Sustainable Energy & Climate Change

3

Select 12 credits from the list of courses above.

Total Credit Hours: 18