Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Requirements

Prerequisites: None.

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None.

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the social and political dimensions of sustainability. Students will study the common problems created by environmental degradation and the depletion of non-renewable resources; the solutions to these problems proposed by governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations; and the processes by which competing preferences over these different solutions are reconciled. This course includes theoretical readings and case studies in order to provide an accurate survey of the rapidly changing politics of sustainability. At the conclusion of the course, student will have an increased awareness of what actions society must take in order develop in a sustainable manner.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

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Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the role of ethics in International Relations. International politics is ripe with ethical and normative issues, including when is the use of force justified. Should human rights be important for state behavior? Who should be responsible for environmental protection? This course will ask students to address these and other important questions, as well as think about the consequences and responsibilities that follow for us, our political leaders, and the world.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course introduces students to international organizations. We study their importance and effectiveness in areas such as peace and security, economic globalization, protection of the environment, and human rights. 

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

A consideration of the process of policy making from the formulation of a policy through its success or failure in becoming part of the public agenda and official policy. Students will learn to analyze and write case studies on pressing contemporary political and social issues, e.g., cloning, third-world indebtedness, poverty, health care, crime, and education.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The course offers a chronological survey of environmental social movements from the birth of the American conservation movement to recent ideas of sustainability and of stewardship. Drawing on readings, films and field trips, we will focus on individuals, organizations, values, and movement culture in our exploration of environmentalism.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the history of the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. Cultures include American Indians and European and African Americans. Natural resource development includes gathering, hunting, fishing, farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization. Changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature and past and present conservation and environmental movements are also examined.

 Offered every other year fall/spring semester (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

An examination of different conceptions of nature, and different theories about the relationship of humans to their natural environment, that have shaped current debates about environmental issues. Readings will be drawn from historically important moral theories as well as from contemporary philosophical writings in the area of environmental ethics.

Offered every other year fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The course will explore the study of the relationship between animals and humans throughout social history; how domestication has coincided with social evolution; the role of animal companions in the lives of individuals and families; treatment of animals as a reflection of culture; animals and physical/social/emotional help; visits to settings where animals are employed as therapeutic agents; the role of animals in personal and societal security; animal communication patterns and capacities.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

[Course Description]

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits).

*Easily add a minor: This course can be applied toward more than one requirement.