Social Justice and Sustainability Minor
This minor has the explicit goal of helping the next generation of leaders and public servants better understand and navigate the key issues facing our world today. The minor offers the following three tracks: environmental sustainability, cultural sustainability, and political and economic sustainability. These tracks allow students to strengthen their chosen major with an emphasis in Social Justice and Sustainability within a complementary discipline.
Minor Requirements (18 Credits)
Foundation course
| SJS 100 | Sustainability and Social Justice: Ethics, Equality, and Environments | 3 |
Four courses (12 credits) from one of the following Tracks (A, B, or C). At least one course must be at the 300-level. No more than two courses from any one discipline.
No more than two courses may be the same as courses taken in the student’s major(s) or minor(s)
Track A: Environmental Sustainability
| BIO 301 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| CLCS 350 | Culture and Human Rights | 3 |
| COM 352 | Environmental Discourses | 3 |
| ENV 200 | Understanding Environmental Issues | 3 |
| ENV 210 | Natural Disasters, Catastrophes, and the Environment | 3 |
| ENV 220 | Ecocritical Approaches to Literature | 3 |
| ENV 372 | Sustainability Science | 3 |
| POL 376 | International Environmental Politics | 3 |
| POL 378 | International Politics of Energy and Sustainability | 3 |
Track B: Economic and Political Sustainability
| ECN 303 | Development Economics | 3 |
| ECN 341 | International Trade | 3 |
| ECN 355 | Political Economy: Theories and Issues | 3 |
| HIS 325 | Human Rights in History | 3 |
| POL 377 | International Political Economy | 3 |
| POL 378 | International Politics of Energy and Sustainability | 3 |
| POL 398 | Human Rights in International Law and Politics | 3 |
| POL 302 | Political Philosophy | 3 |
Track C: Cultural Sustainability
| HIS 325 | Human Rights in History | 3 |
| AHT 211 | Collecting and the Art Market in the Age of Globalization | 3 |
| AHT 361 | The Visual Culture of Disaster | 3 |
| CLCS 241 | Forbidden Acts: Queer Studies and Performance | 3 |
| CLCS 242 | Representations of Poverty in Literature, Film and the Media | 3 |
| CLCS 330 | The Politics of Mobility: Exile and Immigration | 3 |
| CLCS 371 | Law and Culture | 3 |
| CLCS 350 | Culture and Human Rights | 3 |
| CLCS 360 | Critical Race Studies in a Global Context | 3 |
| COM 301 | Globalization and Media | 3 |
| FRE 324 | From Beur to Post-Beur Literature: Exile, Margins, and Re-Territorialization | 3 |
| LIT 243 | On Being Human | 3 |
| STA 235 | Sustainability and the Studio | 3 |
Internship or fieldwork or 3-credit Academic Travel (3 credits)
3-credit Academic Travel options (others may be approved by the department on request):
Environmental Sustainability
| CLCS 248T | European Food Systems: You Are Where You Eat | 3 |
| ENV 280T | Managing the New Zealand Environment | 3 |
| ENV 282T | Tourism and the Environment: Iceland | 3 |
| ENV 230T | Freshwater Conservation | 3 |
| STA 330T | Umbria: A Warm Refuge for Inspiration: Art, Music and Life in Umbria, the Heart of Italy | 3 |
Economic and Political Sustainability
| ECN 330T | Neo-liberal India: Globalization and Development | 3 |
| HIS 202T | History of Switzerland | 3 |
| POL 281T | Sustainable Development in Africa: Politics, Prospects, and Practice | 3 |
Cultural Sustainability
| CLCS 248T | European Food Systems: You Are Where You Eat | 3 |
| CLCS 253T | On Refugees: Representations, Politics and Realities of Forced Migration: Greece | 3 |
| COM 220T | Symbolizing Scottish Folk | 3 |
| STA 331T | Umbria: Sustaining Art in the Heart of Italy | 3 |