Sustainability

Description

If you want to follow your passion for improving your community and the world, you'll need the useful skills that employers are looking for. Pair this minor with a solid background in another field, and you'll have the ability to use a sustainability mindset to address broad social, economic and environmental challenges.

Students in the sustainability concentration learn about the concept of sustainability and how it may be used to develop solutions to pressing issues affecting society, organizations, the environment and the world.

The program introduces sustainability principles and contextualizes how sustainability can be applied to all academic disciplines and professional fields. Students explore the challenges of sustainability within human societies, economies, the environment, cultures and technology, all in local, national and international contexts.

Requirements

• Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours including 9 of upper division (300-400 level) hours for this concentration.
• All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
• Students should consult with their major advisor for upper-division sustainability-related elective course selections and approvals. Possible courses for these electives can be explored at the School of Sustainability website, https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/degrees-programs/sustainability-courses/ but still need to be approved by the student's major academic advisor.

Notes

• To request an override into any School of Sustainability (SOS), please use the following link: schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/course-override-request-form/
• Students wishing to request a course substitution in a themed area may email sosadvising@asu.edu with an explanation of why a course fits into a specific themed area and provide a copy of the syllabus. Students may be asked to ask submit a petition if a decision cannot be reached at the advising level.

Core 6 Hours Required

SOS 110: Sustainable World (SUST) (3)
SOS 111: Sustainable Cities (SUST) (3)

SOS/SFS Elective -- 12 hours including 9 upper division hours
Courses that are sustainability-related and ideally make a connection between the student's other concentration.