Existing Courses Relevant to the Proposed Major
Sustainabilty Minor
As reflected in the list of participating faculty, relevant undergraduate and graduate courses within CLAS exist in Biology, Anthropology, Geography/Environmental Science, Political Science, History, and Economics. Additional relevant classes exist in Engineering, Architecture and Planning and the School of Public Affairs.
Shown below are some of the courses upon which this interdisciplinary major will be built from which electives can be chosen.
Core Seminars and Courses
- Introductory Seminar: BIOL 3411 Principles of Ecology
- Capstone Seminar: P SC 4354 Global Ecological Crises
- ENVS 1342: Environment and Society.
Health and the Environment
- GEOG 4230/5230 Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment
- ANTH 4040/5040 Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
- ANTH 4010/5014 Global Health Studies I: The Biocultural Basis of Health
- ANTH 4030/5030 Ethnobiology
- ANTH 4020/5024 Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems
- ANTH 4080/5080 Global Health Practice
- ANTH 4560/5560 Human Ecology
- ANTH 4090/5090 Political Economy of Drug Culture
Sustainable Ecosystems
- ENVS 1042 Introduction to Environmental Science
- BIOL 4345 Flora of Colorado
- BIOL 3122 Natural History of Colorado
- CHEM 4700/5700 Environmental Chemistry
- BIOL 3330 Plant Diversity
- BIOL 4416 Aquatic Ecology
- BIOL 3411 Principles of Ecology
- BIOL 4910 Field Studies
- BIOL 3412 Fund of Applied Ecology
- BIOL 4974 Evolution
- BIOL 3654 Gen Microbiology
- ENVS 5010 Air Pollution
- BIOL 4053 Advanced Ecology
- BIOL 4345 Flora of Colorado
- BIOL 4154 Conservation Biology
- CHEM 4700/5700 Environmental Chemistry
- BIOL 4415 Microbial Ecology
- BIOL 4416 Aquatic Ecology
- ENVS 5030 Environmental Geology
- ENVS 5000 Biogeochemical Cycles
- ENVS 5020 Earth Environments and Human Impacts
Environmental Justice and Ethics
- P SC 5145 Indigenous Politics
- GEOG 4335/5335 Contemporary Environmental Issues
- PSC 5217 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Environmental Policy and Decision Making
- ECON 4530/5530 Economics of Natural Resources
- GEOG 4265/5265 Sustainability in Resources Manage.
- ECON 4540/5540 Environmental Economics
- GEOG 4350/5350 Environ. and Soc in the Amer. Past
- ECON 4770 Economic Development-Theory and Problem
- ANTH 3006 Economic Development and Economics
- ENGR 3400 Technology and Culture
- ANTH 4140/5140 Principles of Economic Anthropology
- P SC 4354/5354 Environmental Politics and Policy
- ANTH 4070/5070 Culture and the Environment
- P SC 5026 Global Political Economy I: Rich Countries
- ANTH 4170/5170 Culture of Develop. and Global.
- P SC 5036 Global Political Economy II: Poor Countries
- ANTH 5450 Conservation and Development: Contemporay Issues
- ANTH 4460/5460 Development and Conservation: Theory and Practice
- P SC 5276 Conflicts and Rights in International Law
- ANTH 4220/5220 Community in a Global Context
Environmental Methods and Technologies
- ANTH 6063 Qualitative Methods in Anthropology
- GEOG 4060/5060 Environmental Remote Sensing
- P SC 5468 Research Methods in Political Science
- GEOG 4080/5080 Geographic Information Systems
- ANTH 4050/5050 Quant. Methods in Anthropology
- GEOG 4090/5090 Environmental Modeling with GIS
- BIO 4474 Ecological Methods
- ENVS 5600 Applied Statistics for the Natural Sciences
- GEOG 4060/5060 Environmental Remote Sensing