Courses listed as electives in the SUDV minor include a significant component or unit dedicated to sustainability issues, knowledge, or applications, but may not have a predominant focus on sustainability or sustainable development. Electives do not necessarily integrate material across the three perspectives of social equity, economic development, and environmental protection.
The following courses, grouped by perspective, are currently approved for elective credits in the minor. Note that not all of these are offered every year.
Environment:
ANTH 3630 Field Experience
CHEM/BIOL 1530 Environmental Lab
CHEM 3410 Environmental Chemistry
ENSC 4600: Adv. Solar Energy
GES 1000 Climate & Vegetation
GES 2050 Digital Earth
GES 4170 Writing Place
GES 4340 Soils
GES 4410 Res Mgmt and Conservation
GES 4420 Conservation & Public Lands
GES 4450 Analysis of Environmental Systems
GES 4480 Environmental Problems of Colorado
GES 4500Water Resources & Problems
GES 4510 Applied Hydrology
GES 4650 Restoration Geographies
GES 4750 Recreation, Tourism, & Environment
MAE 2301 Thermodynamics
PES 1510 Energy Science II
PES 1600 Intro Solar Energy
PES 1620 Intro Solar Energy Lab
PES 2500 Sustainable Energy Fundamentals
Equity:
ANTH 3040 Women Around the World
GES 4460 Field Studies in Geography (Silverton)
GES 4610 Urban Geography
GES 4620 Race, Ethnicity, & Place
GES 4730 Population Geography
GES 4780 Global Migration
GES 4920 Geography of Food
HIST 395 Environmental History: The West
PHIL 3500: Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 4140 Phil, Glob & Sustainability
PSC 4290 International Environ Politics
PSC 4350 Environmental Pol & Admin
PSC 4540 Land Use Law [Colvin]
SOC 4220 Sustainable Urban Development
WEST 3150 Power, Privilege & Social Diff.
WEST 3250 Peoples & Cultures of the S.W.
WEST 3400 Race and Gender Theory
WEST 4140 Katrina: The Nation at Crossroads
WEST 4200 Sociology of Poverty
WEST 4400 Indigenous People of the S.W.
WEST 4700 Global Feminism
Economics:
ECON 3300 Environmental Econ I
ECON 4300 Environmental Econ II
MGMT: 3900 Creativity (von Breton)
