Undergraduate Bulletin

Requirements for the Minor in Climate Solutions (CLI)

At least 12 credits applied to the minor may not be applied to any major or other minor. Of the 6 credits that could be also applied to another major or minor, no more than one course can be from the electives list below. All courses offered for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. Completion of the minor requires 18 credits.  

1. Required core courses (9 credits):

• ATM 201 Introduction to Climate and Climate Change or ATM 237 World Climate and
  Atmosphere
• SUS 323 Environmental Justice
• CME 491 Sustainable Future through Renewable Energy

2. Elective courses (6 credits, select 1 course from each of 2 different paths): 

Natural Sciences Path

• ATM 305 Global Atmospheric Change
• BIO 319 Landscape Ecology Laboratory
• BIO 336 Conservation Biology
• BIO 351 Ecology
• BIO 385 Plant Ecology
• BIO 386/ENS 311 Ecosystem Ecology and the Global Environment
• GSS 313/314 GIS Design and Application I and Lab
• SUS 322 Human Ecology
• SUS 326 Conservation Genetics
• SUS 340 Social Dimensions of Disease
• SUS 343 Age of the Anthropocene

Engineering Path

• CIV 355 Data Analytics for Civil Engineering Systems
• CIV 407 Transportation Economics
• CIV 422 Introduction to Coastal Engineering
• CIV 423 Coastal Engineering Planning and Design
• CIV 424 Stormwater Management and Design
• EST 391 Technology Assessment

Social Sciences and Humanities Path

• COM 351 Team Collaboration
• COM 365 Talking Science
• COM 436 Environmental Communication
• ECO 335 Economic Development
• ECO 373 Economics of Environment and Natural Resources
• EGL 317 Energy Humanities and Literature
• EGL 319/SUS 321 Ecology and Evolution in American Literature
• EGL 372 Topics in Women and Literature: Ecofeminism
• GLI 320 Global, Cultural, and Environmental Issues
• HIS 365 Environmental History of North America
• JRN 438 Weathercasting & Environmental Reporting
• POL 371 Politics of Climate Change
• SOC 344 Environmental Sociology
• SUS 307 Environmental Economics and Management
• SUS 311 Disasters and Society: A Global Perspective
• SUS 317 American Environmental History
• SUS 318 American Environmental Politics
• SUS 362 Resilient Communities
• SUS 366/PHI 366 Philosophy of the Environment

3. Capstone (3 credits):

• Internship (488 course, or similar) or independent research with a faculty mentor (487 course, or
  similar), which must be approved in advance by the Climate Solutions Minor Director or Steering
  Committee.