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Sustainability Minor

Beginning Fall 2009, the University of Denver now offers a minor in sustainability.  Geography professor Michael Keables, who serves on the Sustainability Council, helped lead a faculty team that inventoried DU's course offerengs and organized them into a new minor.  The minor is based in the Department of Geography under the Natural Sciences and Mathematics division and requires 24 quarter hours of coursework, including GEOG 2500: Sustainability and Human Society.

Learn more about the sustainability minor.

DU courses that include sustainability content

Environmental sustainability
BIOL 2010: General Ecology
BIOL 2050: Conservation Biology
BIOL 3060: Tropical Ecology
BIOL 3070: Ecological Field Methods
CHEM 2240: Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 3412: Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
GEOG 2700: Contemporary Environmental Issues
GEOG 3320: Global Change - Human Dimensions
GEOG 3610: Climatology
GEOG 3700: Environment and Development
GEOG 3720: Mountain Environments and Sustainability
GEOG 3870: Water Resources and Sustainability
GEOL 3100: Environmental Geology

Economic sustainability
ECON 2140: Economics of Social Issues
GEOG 2410: Economic Geography
GEOG 2510: Ecological Economics
GEOG 3430: Land Use: Planning, Policy, and Urban Growth
GEOG 3420: Urban and Regional Planning
GEOG 3425: Urban Sustainability

Social equity
GEOG 3310: Culture, Nature, Economy
GEOG 3730: International Environmental Policy
GEOG 3740: Environmental Justice and the City
MGMT 3100: Ethics and Social Responsibility
PHIL 2785: Environmental Ethics
PLSC 2840: International Law & Human Rights
SOCI 2450: Environment and Society

Other Sustainability
ANTH 3010: World Food/World Hunger
ANTH 3485: Anthropology and Underdevelopment
ANTH 3880: Technology and Adaptation
CHEM 3410: Atmospheric Chemistry or ENME 3860: Introduction to Air Pollution
CORE 2401: The Human Population
CORE 2408: U.S. Environmental History
CORE 2411: Natural Environment and Human Values
CORE 2413: Global Environmental History
CORE 2418: Environmental Challenges
CORE 2464: The Politics of Public Land Management
CORE 2465: Environmental Controversies
CORE 2468: Global Environmental Politics
CORE 2472: UN & Sustainable Development
CORE 2473: Climate Science and Policy
CORE 2485: Sustainable Living
CORE 2624: Politics of the Environment
EALC 2001: Local and Regional Environmental Issues
EALC 2002: The Impact of Development on the Environment
EALC 2003: Biodiversity: Regional and Global Issues
ENVI 2801: Water Quality in the West
ENVI 3000: Environmental Law
GEOG 2420 Geography of Tourism
GEOG 3840: Water Resource Analysis
GEOG 3880: Cleantech and Sustainability
HIST 2710: North American Environmental History
INTS 1500: Contemporary Issues in the Global Economy
INTS 2050: Ethics & International Politics
INTS 2150: Global Environment
INTS 2270: Sustainable Energy and Transportation
INTS 2520: Development, Rights, and Freedom
PHIL 2180: Ethics
SJUS 2010: Social Justice