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Integrated Program in the Environment

Minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Students on Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 requirements ENSUSTMIN

The curriculum of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies minor is designed to provide students a broad introduction to the complex system-scale challenges of sustainability as well as the tools needed to address problems that transcend solely social or environmental domains. It combines introductory coursework with classes on human-environment systems.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 18 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Introduction to Sustainability Studies. One (1) course:
- ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
- EAS-E 116 Our Planet and Its Future
- GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
- GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society
- SPEA-E 183 ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE
ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
How do humans relate to the environment? Addresses this question from cross-cultural, historical, scientific, and ethical perspectives. Considers current problems; examines how technical, socioeconomic and political changes transform people's use of natural resources. Students evaluate how societies vary in perceptions of nature and explore implications for behavior, decision making, and environmental change.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
EAS-E 116 Our Planet and Its Future
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
The interaction between geologic and environmental processes in the earth. Special emphasis on how these processes affect public policies and laws. Multimedia exercises and videotape presentations (made specifically for this course) are included. Two lectures and one discussion section/laboratory per week.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of EAS-E 116 or GEOL-G 116.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
How has the global environment changed? How are we influencing Earth's natural processes, now and in the future? Learn about climate change, resource consumption, and land use change.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Just as we shape the environment, the environment shapes us. From globalization to food production to climate change, learn how humans and environments interact.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
SPEA-E 183 ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None
Human-Environment Systems. One (1) course:
- ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topic: "Language Hotspots and Biodiversity")
- FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
- GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
- GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
- GEOG-G 343 Perspectives on Environmental Decisions
- GEOG-G 368 Water in the Midwest
- GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
- GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
- GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
- GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
- GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
- HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (approved topic: "Environmental History")
- HIST-W 215 Natural Disasters in World Environmental History
- INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment (approved topic: "Arctic Encounters: Animals, People and Ships")
- POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- SOAD-D 303 Green Building Concepts and Technologies
- SPEA-E 332 INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ECOLOGY
- SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
- SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
- SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS
- SPH-O 305 INTEGRATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
- SPH-V 422 ISSUES IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: INVESTIGATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS
ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
The current environmental crisis did not begin overnight and likely has roots deep in our evolutionary history. Although the scale of our effects on the biosphere has only recently shown exponential growth, it is worth examining how we got to this point today. This course explores a series of threshold moments in the history of our species that had great implications for the environment.

ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines processes of globalization and economic and cultural integration, including the origin and spread of mass-consumer society. Topics include the theories of consumption, mass media and advertising, and the relationship between modernity and consumerism. Includes examples from societies around the world.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
- Fall 2023CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE CAPPcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores traditional forms of verbal expression, music, dance, and visual art in Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone countries in the Caribbean. Examines art forms in relation to specific historical and social contexts and broader processes of colonialism, social stratification, creolization, urbanization, nationalism, and decolonization in the region.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE AHcourse
GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Can humans restore ecosystems and undo the environmental harm they have caused? To what state/extent should ecosystems be restored? What drives the ecological restoration movement? Investigates the deeply interconnected history, philosophy, ecology, geomorphology, and political economy of restoration through readings, discussions, and fieldwork.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 343 Perspectives on Environmental Decisions
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Reviews social science theoretical frameworks to explain environmental behavior and decisions, and implications for effective environmental management policies and methodologies. Topics include global changes in land/climate systems; sustainable development; property regimes; vulnerability and adaptation; integrative-interdisciplinary methods for environmental management; equity and participatory decision-making, etc.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 368 Water in the Midwest
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the science, politics, and ethics of water in the Midwest from the Bloomington campus to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins. Critically examines such water issues as pollution, environmental justice, flooding, invasive species, agricultural and urban water demand, and effective regulation.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing climate to change at an unprecedented rate. This course will explain how and why anthropogenic activity is causing climate to change, how this impacts society and options for adaptation and mitigation, plus the potential to reduce climate change through geoengineering.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
How has nature been appropriated, reworked, and produced under capitalism; conversely, how does the materiality of nature shape the conditions of capitalism? In this seminar, we will investigate how relations between capitalism and nature have evolved from the end of feudalism through the current neoliberal era.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introduction to political ecology, an approach which focuses on the political-economic context of natural resource conflicts with particular attention to issues of equity, justice, and power. Covers the theoretical lineage of political ecology, its development over the last twenty years, and current hot topics in the field.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Do we control water, or does it control us? Introduces geographic perspectives on the interaction of water and society. Takes the holistic view and asks the big questions about how water shapes, and is shaped by, social, political, and cultural dynamics.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to food production and consumption systems, emphasizing linkages to land use and social change on food/farming system sustainability. Topics include urbanization, population growth, and economic liberalization; farming livelihoods, gender, and poverty; biotechnology; agro-ecology, global health.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
HIST-J 400 Seminar in History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HIST H-270; and a major in history or secondary education social studies
Description
Develops research skills in history, focusing on the issues and sources of a broad time period and/or theme with multi-national or global scope. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
HIST-W 215 Natural Disasters in World Environmental History
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the stories that people tell about the relations between humans and the natural world and the ways that natural disasters operate as both reality and idea. Considers issues drawn from world historical cases and how environmental history and catastrophes transcend political boundaries.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 302 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Environment

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Advanced topics examining pressing health and environmental challenges around the world. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the processes of social decision reconciling human demands on the natural world with the ability of nature to sustain life and living standards. Analyzes the implications for public policies in complex sequential interactions among technical, economic, social, and political systems and considers the consequences of alternative courses of action.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
SOAD-D 303 Green Building Concepts and Technologies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines topics related to green building design and technologies, including sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy efficiency, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality, and LEED Exam preparation.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
SPEA-E 332 INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ECOLOGY

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPH-O 305 INTEGRATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None

SPH-V 422 ISSUES IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: INVESTIGATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

Credits
3–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
None
Focal Area. One (1) of the following:
1. Sustainable Food Systems.
  - Core Courses. Two (2) courses:
    - ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
    - GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
    - GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
    - GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
    - SPEA-E 417 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    - SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
    ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Discussion of the economy of food production, trade and consumption on a global basis. Gives a cross-cultural and historical perspective on the development of cooking and cuisine in relationship to individual, national, and ethnic identity. Relates cuisine to modernity, migration, and forms of cultural mixing and Creolization.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Promotes understanding of the history and geographic distribution of the world's food cultures. Focuses on the material aspects of food and food's relationship to society. Increases knowledge of food and cultures through reading, discussion and cooking.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    How is the production and consumption of food related to poverty and development? Explores how global food systems affect farmers, farmworkers, retailers and consumers; the ways scientific advances changed rural economies in the Third World; and the history of famine and contemporary food security issues.
    
    Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Introduction to food production and consumption systems, emphasizing linkages to land use and social change on food/farming system sustainability. Topics include urbanization, population growth, and economic liberalization; farming livelihoods, gender, and poverty; biotechnology; agro-ecology, global health.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    SPEA-E 417 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
  - Elective Courses. Two (2) additional courses:
    - ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
    - ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
    - GEOG-G 218 Edible Education
    - GEOG-G 352 Food and Poverty in America
    - GEOG-G 357 Urban Alternative Agriculture
    - GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
    - GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
    - GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
    - SPEA-E 400 TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (approved topic: "Permaculture")
    - SPEA-E 417 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    - SPEA-E 450 SOIL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
    - SPEA-V 450 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS (approved topic: "Agriculture, Environment, and Governance")
    - Independent study, readings, research, or practicum in sustainable food systems from any department (3 cr.) with pre-approval of the Program
    ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Considers the complex connections between commodities, \"sustainable\" trade, and culture, especially for agricultural commodities. Drawing from work in anthropology and real-world case studies, asks: What makes something a commodity? What is the \"right\" way to farm, to trade, and to eat? Who decides, and why?
    ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Discussion of the economy of food production, trade and consumption on a global basis. Gives a cross-cultural and historical perspective on the development of cooking and cuisine in relationship to individual, national, and ethnic identity. Relates cuisine to modernity, migration, and forms of cultural mixing and Creolization.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 218 Edible Education
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Explores many different aspects of the food movement in a single course. Topics include organic agriculture, school lunch reform, farm-to-school programs, urban agriculture and food sovereignty using a multi-disciplinary perspective.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 352 Food and Poverty in America
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    This course examines the experience of food insecurity in the USA, the role of poverty in food production and consumption, and the current mitigation strategies and social movements challenging the global food regime. Students will learn the differences and connections between concepts of food security, food justice, and food sovereignty. Relationships between food and gender, race, and ethnicity will be explored, along with the geographical and social concepts of food deserts and food choice.
    
    Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 357 Urban Alternative Agriculture
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    From connecting with the earth to changing the food system, this course digs into the narratives surrounding community gardens and community orchards. Explores topics like sustainability, food justice, and the pastoral roots of these projects. Utilizes multimedia, speakers from community projects, and class discussion.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Promotes understanding of the history and geographic distribution of the world's food cultures. Focuses on the material aspects of food and food's relationship to society. Increases knowledge of food and cultures through reading, discussion and cooking.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    How is the production and consumption of food related to poverty and development? Explores how global food systems affect farmers, farmworkers, retailers and consumers; the ways scientific advances changed rural economies in the Third World; and the history of famine and contemporary food security issues.
    
    Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Introduction to food production and consumption systems, emphasizing linkages to land use and social change on food/farming system sustainability. Topics include urbanization, population growth, and economic liberalization; farming livelihoods, gender, and poverty; biotechnology; agro-ecology, global health.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    SPEA-E 400 TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
    
    Credits
    1–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 417 FUNDAMENTALS OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 450 SOIL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-V 413 FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-V 450 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
    
    Credits
    1–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
2. Sustainable Energy, Resources and Climate. Four (4) courses:
  - Sustainable Energy
    - INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies (approved topic: "International Energy Markets: Environmental, Economic and Health Aspects")
    - PHYS-P 310 Environmental Physics
    - BUS-L 319
    - SPEA-E 401 HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION
    - SPEA-V 437 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
    - SPH-O 305 INTEGRATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    - SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
  - Sustainable Resources
    - EAS-E 333 Sedimentation and Tectonics
    - EAS-E 351 Elements of Hydrology
    - GEOG-G 259 Water Security and Sustainability
    - GEOG-G 368 Water in the Midwest
    - GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
    - GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
    - GEOG-G 467 Ecohydrology
    - SPEA-E 416
    - SPEA-E 431 WATER SUPPLY AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT
    - SPEA-E 450 SOIL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 451 AIR POLLUTION AND CONTROL
    - SPEA-E 452 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 456 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 460 FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
  - Climate Studies
    - EAS-A 315 Climate Engineering
    - EAS-A 340 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
    - EAS-A 476 Climate Change Science
    - EAS-E 227 Earth Climate and History
    - EAS-E 488 Paleoclimatology: A Geological Record of Earth's Climate History
    - GEOG-G 304 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
    - GEOG-G 305 Current Issues in Climate, Land and Environmental Change
    - GEOG-G 405 Ecological Climatology
    - GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
    - INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development (approved topic: "Climate Disaster and Resilience")
    - INTL-I 434 International Climate Governance
    - MSCH-S 452 Communicating Climate Change
  - Policy and Development
    - EAS-A 476 Climate Change Science
    - EAS-E 430 Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
    - GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
    - BUS-L 302 SUSTAINABILITY LAW & POLICY
    - BUS-G 316 SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
    - SPEA-E 340 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
    - SPEA-E 363 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 476 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
    - SPEA-V 450 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS (approved topic: "Agriculture, Environment, and Governance")
    - SPH-T 301 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
    - Independent study, readings, research, or practicum in sustainable energy, resources and climate from any department with pre-approval from the Program
  INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course focuses on the intensive study and analysis of selected international problems and issues within an interdisciplinary format. Topics will vary but will cut across fields, regions, and periods.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  PHYS-P 310 Environmental Physics
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  PHYS-H 221, PHYS-P 201, or PHYS-P 221; and MATH-M 211; or consent of instructor
  Description
  For biological and physical science majors. Relationship of physics to current environmental problems. Energy production, comparison of sources and byproducts; nature of and possible solutions to problems of noise, particulate matter in atmosphere.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  SPEA-E 401 HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-V 437 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPH-O 305 INTEGRATED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  EAS-E 333 Sedimentation and Tectonics
  Credits
  4
  Prerequisites
  One of EAS-E 225 or GEOL-G 225; and one of EAS-E 226 or GEOL-G 226
  Description
  Integrative treatment of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and structural geology. Examines links between tectonic deformation processes and the resulting sediment that forms the stratigraphic rock record. Description of sedimentary rocks, from basic features at the bed-scale to scales of sedimentary basins. Learning and applying the facies concept and using stratigraphic principles to correlate facies across sedimentary basins.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-E 333, EAS-E 334, GEOL-G 333, or GEOL-G 334.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  EAS-E 351 Elements of Hydrology
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  P or C: MATH-M 119, MATH-M 211, MATH-S 211, or MATH-V 119; and PHYS-P 110; or consent of instructor.
  Description
  An intensive survey of Earth\'s water resources, focusing on the first principles that govern surface water and groundwater and the techniques used in the field for hydrology.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-E 351 or GEOL-G 351.
  GEOG-G 259 Water Security and Sustainability
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores cases of water security and sustainability throughout the world, including the western United States and south Asia. Students will develop research and interpretation skills with quantitative, qualitative, and cartographic water data through engagement with research and policy documents and learn how to critique and articulate recommendations for water policy.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of GEOG-G 259 or GEOG-G 347.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  GEOG-G 368 Water in the Midwest
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the science, politics, and ethics of water in the Midwest from the Bloomington campus to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins. Critically examines such water issues as pollution, environmental justice, flooding, invasive species, agricultural and urban water demand, and effective regulation.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to hydrological processes occurring at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Principles of water resources such as infiltration, runoff, surface- and groundwater flow will be explored. Topics covered also include the environmental, economic, and social implications of floods, droughts, dams, and water usage as well as current and future issues in water quality, water pollution, and water-resource regulation.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Do we control water, or does it control us? Introduces geographic perspectives on the interaction of water and society. Takes the holistic view and asks the big questions about how water shapes, and is shaped by, social, political, and cultural dynamics.
  Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
  GEOG-G 467 Ecohydrology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor
  Description
  Introduces basic principles and concepts in forest ecohydrology, focusing on modeling perspectives. Examines processes and feedback among water, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes in application to water resources and forest management: control of climate, vegetation change, and disturbance regimes on hydrological and biogeochemical processes.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  SPEA-E 431 WATER SUPPLY AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 450 SOIL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 451 AIR POLLUTION AND CONTROL
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 452 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 456 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 460 FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  EAS-A 315 Climate Engineering
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces climate engineering from a physical science perspective, delving into how and why it works. Covers the major climate engineering proposals that have been put forward, such as stratospheric sulfate aerosols and marine cloud brightening. Explores issues of distributional justice, ethics, governance, and geopolitics related to climate engineering.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-A 315 or GEOG-G 329.
  EAS-A 340 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Any introductory science course or consent of instructor
  Description
  Provides an introduction to the physical basis of Earth\'s atmosphere and climate system from global to local scales, emphasizing physical processes and properties. Analyzes surface energy and water balances in varied landscapes. Covers issues related to climate change.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-A 340, GEOG-G 304, or GEOL-G 340.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  EAS-A 476 Climate Change Science
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: At least two college-level physical science courses or other experience reading and interpreting scientific data
  Description
  Evidence for and theories of climate change over a range of time scales. Sources of natural climate forcing are presented, historical evolution of climate change is quantified, and model tools and climate projections are presented along with analyses of climate change impacts.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-A 476, GEOG-G 475, or GEOL-G 476.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  EAS-E 227 Earth Climate and History
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Earth's climate is linked to geological processes and life on our planet. Covers climate systems in the context of changes in continents, atmospheric composition, and life on land and in the oceans. Focuses on interactions between humans and climate and how climate and its variability are tied to Earth systems.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-E 227 or GEOL-G 227.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  EAS-E 488 Paleoclimatology: A Geological Record of Earth's Climate History
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  EAS-E 227; or at least 3 EAS-prefixed courses at the 200-level or higher
  Description
  Examines how Earth's climate has varied over geological time based on evidence from rock records. Explores varied approaches to reconstruction of past climates based on evidence contained in the records from sedimentary sequences and fossil occurrences, complemented by insights provided by geochemical data.
  GEOG-G 304 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides an introduction to the physical basis of Earth\'s atmosphere and climate system from global to local scales, emphasizing physical processes and properties. Analyzes surface energy and water balances in varied landscapes. Covers issues related to climate change.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of GEOG-G 304, EAS-A 340, or GEOL-G 340.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  GEOG-G 305 Current Issues in Climate, Land and Environmental Change
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An examination of current problems concerning climate, land and environmental change from a geographical perspective. The specific topic to be considered will vary from semester to semester.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  GEOG-G 405 Ecological Climatology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys the relationship between climate and vegetation and explores the consequences of human impacts. Examines the role of climate on vegetation patterns, agricultural crops, and select ecosystems and in turn, the influence of vegetation on climate.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing climate to change at an unprecedented rate. This course will explain how and why anthropogenic activity is causing climate to change, how this impacts society and options for adaptation and mitigation, plus the potential to reduce climate change through geoengineering.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced topics examining the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; in-depth analysis of theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
  
  INTL-I 434 International Climate Governance
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of climate issues with a focus on the effect of global governance institutions and NGOs on climate policy and action. May include attendance at national and/or international climate conferences as part of official IU delegation.
  
  MSCH-S 452 Communicating Climate Change
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides an overview of public opinion on climate change, introduces different theoretical perspectives on the barriers to public engagement with the topic, and examines the effectiveness of different methods of climate change communication designed to foster public engagement.
  EAS-A 476 Climate Change Science
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Notes
  R: At least two college-level physical science courses or other experience reading and interpreting scientific data
  Description
  Evidence for and theories of climate change over a range of time scales. Sources of natural climate forcing are presented, historical evolution of climate change is quantified, and model tools and climate projections are presented along with analyses of climate change impacts.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of EAS-A 476, GEOG-G 475, or GEOL-G 476.
  Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
  EAS-E 430 Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the practical applications of scientific and technical expertise to U.S. foreign policy. Part of the State Department's "Diplomacy Lab," which engages university classes as consultants to State Department offices/embassies to address current issues in environmental and energy policy.
  GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  How has nature been appropriated, reworked, and produced under capitalism; conversely, how does the materiality of nature shape the conditions of capitalism? In this seminar, we will investigate how relations between capitalism and nature have evolved from the end of feudalism through the current neoliberal era.
  Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
  BUS-L 302 SUSTAINABILITY LAW & POLICY
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  BUS-G 316 SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 340 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 363 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-E 476 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPEA-V 450 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
  
  SPH-T 301 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
  
  Credits
  3–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  None
3. Environmental Ethics and Justice.
  - Core Courses. Two (2) courses:
    - ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
    - ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    - GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    - GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    - INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment (approved topic: "Environmental Justice")
    - SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS
    - SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    - SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
    ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
    
    Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Can humans restore ecosystems and undo the environmental harm they have caused? To what state/extent should ecosystems be restored? What drives the ecological restoration movement? Investigates the deeply interconnected history, philosophy, ecology, geomorphology, and political economy of restoration through readings, discussions, and fieldwork.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    An introduction to political ecology, an approach which focuses on the political-economic context of natural resource conflicts with particular attention to issues of equity, justice, and power. Covers the theoretical lineage of political ecology, its development over the last twenty years, and current hot topics in the field.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Interdisciplinary study of comparative environmental justice issues around the world.
    Repeatability
    May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
    
    SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
  - Elective Courses. Two (2) additional courses:
    - ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
    - ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    - ENG-L 389 Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism (program approval required; see academic advisor)
    - ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
    - GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    - GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    - GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
    - GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    - GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    - HPSC-X 340 Scientific Methods: How Science Really Works
    - HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    - INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
    - INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment (approved topic: "Environmental Justice")
    - SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS
    - SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    - SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    - Independent study, readings, research, or practicum in environmental ethics and justice from any department (3 cr.) with pre-approval of the Program
    ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
    ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
    
    Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    ENG-L 389 Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Selected critical approaches to the issue of gender over time and in various cultural settings. Topics vary, but may include feminist criticism and popular culture, the history of feminist expository prose, or deconstructionism and feminism.
    
    Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE AHcourse
    ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
    Repeatability
    Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Can humans restore ecosystems and undo the environmental harm they have caused? To what state/extent should ecosystems be restored? What drives the ecological restoration movement? Investigates the deeply interconnected history, philosophy, ecology, geomorphology, and political economy of restoration through readings, discussions, and fieldwork.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    How has nature been appropriated, reworked, and produced under capitalism; conversely, how does the materiality of nature shape the conditions of capitalism? In this seminar, we will investigate how relations between capitalism and nature have evolved from the end of feudalism through the current neoliberal era.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    An introduction to political ecology, an approach which focuses on the political-economic context of natural resource conflicts with particular attention to issues of equity, justice, and power. Covers the theoretical lineage of political ecology, its development over the last twenty years, and current hot topics in the field.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Introduction to global environmental change (GEC), focusing on the human causes and consequences of biophysical transformations of land systems. Emphasis on socioeconomic, political, institutional, and environmental dimensions of land change; tropical forests, grasslands, and urbanizing areas; international environmental regimes; spatial methodologies in GEC research, and integrated approaches.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    HPSC-X 340 Scientific Methods: How Science Really Works
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Science is governed by methods: methods for performing experiments, analyzing data, testing hypotheses, and writing scientific papers. This course frames the philosophical and historical debates about scientific methods and introduces the conceptual tools to discuss and reflect on the rules and procedures that make the pursuit of knowledge scientific.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Examines trees and forests as conspicuous natural objects that play a multivalent role in human imagination, thinking, and emotion. Explores the intertwined natural and cultural trajectory of trees along scientific, historical, and psychological dimensions. Topics include ecosystem services, human uses and attitudes, deforestation, IU\'s woodland campus, and ecological ethics.
    
    Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE AHcourse
    INTL-I 202 Global Health and Environment
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Examination of pressing health and environmental challenges around the world, such as deforestation, climate change and the spread of infectious diseases. Focuses on the interaction of health and environmental problems that cross national borders and require a multinational or global effort to solve.
    
    Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE GCCcourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    INTL-I 428 Social Justice and the Environment
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Interdisciplinary study of comparative environmental justice issues around the world.
    Repeatability
    May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
    
    SPEA-V 424 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, JUSTICE, AND POLITICS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
4. Biodiversity and Sustainability.
  - Core Courses. Two (2) courses:
    - BIOL-L 307 Biodiversity
    - BIOL-L 326 Biodiverse-City. The Art and Science of Green Infrastructure
    - GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    - GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    - HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    - SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
    - SPH-O 310 ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
    BIOL-L 307 Biodiversity
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111
    Description
    Provides a strong framework and hands-on experience studying biodiversity. Course transitions between introductory materials considered in BIOL-L 111 and BIOL-L 112 and more advanced courses focused on specific groups of organisms (for example, vertebrate zoology). Includes field and lab components where local biodiversity is sampled and analyzed.
    
    BIOL-L 326 Biodiverse-City. The Art and Science of Green Infrastructure
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    100-level Biology; or consent of instructor
    Description
    An interdisciplinary, place-based approach to understanding biological diversity and its relationship to flourishing human societies, and to developing associated skills and values (e.g. interdisciplinary thinking and action, stewardship).
    GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    A survey of the present and past distributions of the world's plants and animals, emphasizing ecological explanation of species distributions. Topics include evolution and distribution of major plant and animal groups, world vegetation, plant and animal domestication, introduction of plant and animal pests, destruction of natural communities, and extinction.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Examines trees and forests as conspicuous natural objects that play a multivalent role in human imagination, thinking, and emotion. Explores the intertwined natural and cultural trajectory of trees along scientific, historical, and psychological dimensions. Topics include ecosystem services, human uses and attitudes, deforestation, IU\'s woodland campus, and ecological ethics.
    
    Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE AHcourse
    SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 310 ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
  - Elective Courses. Two (2) additional courses:
    - ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
    - ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    - BIOL-B 300 Vascular Plants
    - BIOL-B 364 Summer Flowering Plants
    - BIOL-L 307 Biodiversity
    - BIOL-L 326 Biodiverse-City. The Art and Science of Green Infrastructure
    - BIOL-L 369 Heredity, Evolution, and Society
    - BIOL-L 376 Biology of Birds
    - BIOL-Z 373 Entomology
    - BIOL-Z 374 Invertebrate Zoology
    - BIOL-Z 406 Vertebrate Zoology
    - BIOL-Z 460 Animal Behavior
    - BIOL-Z 476 Biology of Fishes
    - EAS-E 341 Natural History of Coral Reefs
    - GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    - GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    - GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    - GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
    - GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    - GEOG-G 467 Ecohydrology
    - HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    - SPEA-E 332 INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ECOLOGY
    - SPEA-E 363 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 416
    - SPEA-E 422 URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 456 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
    - SPEA-E 460 FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
    - SPEA-E 476 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
    - SPEA-E 482 OVERSEAS TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    - SPH-O 310 ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
    - SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    - SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    - SPH-T 301 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
    - Independent study, readings, research, or practicum in biodiversity and sustainability from any department (3 cr.) with pre-approval of the Program
    ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    The current environmental crisis did not begin overnight and likely has roots deep in our evolutionary history. Although the scale of our effects on the biosphere has only recently shown exponential growth, it is worth examining how we got to this point today. This course explores a series of threshold moments in the history of our species that had great implications for the environment.
    ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
    
    Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE DUScourse
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    BIOL-B 300 Vascular Plants
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisites
    One introductory biology course
    Description
    Survey of the ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants, including their morphology, classification, ecology, evolution, and economic importance.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    BIOL-B 364 Summer Flowering Plants
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisites
    One introductory biology course
    Description
    For those desiring a broad, practical knowledge of common wild and cultivated plants.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    BIOL-L 307 Biodiversity
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111
    Description
    Provides a strong framework and hands-on experience studying biodiversity. Course transitions between introductory materials considered in BIOL-L 111 and BIOL-L 112 and more advanced courses focused on specific groups of organisms (for example, vertebrate zoology). Includes field and lab components where local biodiversity is sampled and analyzed.
    
    BIOL-L 326 Biodiverse-City. The Art and Science of Green Infrastructure
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    100-level Biology; or consent of instructor
    Description
    An interdisciplinary, place-based approach to understanding biological diversity and its relationship to flourishing human societies, and to developing associated skills and values (e.g. interdisciplinary thinking and action, stewardship).
    BIOL-L 369 Heredity, Evolution, and Society
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    Junior or senior standing
    Notes
    Not open to biology majors
    Description
    Basic concepts and principles of evolution, heredity, and individual development. Problems of the individual and society raised by present and future genetic knowledge and technology.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    BIOL-L 376 Biology of Birds
    
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111; and BIOL-H 111 or BIOL-L 112
    Notes
    Intended for biology majors
    Description
    Avian systematics, distribution, evolution, ecology, and behavior, emphasis on migration and orientation, territoriality, communication, and reproductive behavior. Field trips will concentrate on identification, interpretation of behavior, and research methods.
    
    BIOL-Z 373 Entomology
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    One introductory biology course
    Description
    Insects, with emphasis on evolution, distribution, behavior, and structure.
    
    BIOL-Z 374 Invertebrate Zoology
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111
    Description
    Ecology, evolution, and phylogeny of major invertebrate groups, with emphasis on current controversies and concepts.
    
    BIOL-Z 406 Vertebrate Zoology
    
    Credits
    5
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111 and junior or senior standing
    Description
    Morphology, evolution, adaptations, and general biology of vertebrates.
    
    BIOL-Z 460 Animal Behavior
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    Junior or senior standing
    Description
    Introduction to the zoological study of animal behavior. Emphasizes both internal and external factors involved in the causation of species-typical behavior of animals (protozoa-primates) in their natural environment.
    
    BIOL-Z 476 Biology of Fishes
    
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    BIOL-L 111; and junior or senior standing
    Description
    Introduces diversity of extant fishes with respect to evolutionary relationships, classification, structure, function, behavior, ecology and biogeography.
    EAS-E 341 Natural History of Coral Reefs
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    One course from the General Education Natural and Mathematical Sciences course list or one course from the General Education Social and Historical Studies course list
    Description
    Evolutionary history of reef ecosystems through geologic time inclusive of reef composition and global distribution, modern reef development, conservation and management practices, and the persistence of the reef ecosystem through climate change scenarios. Covers biologic, ecologic, and geologic principles as they pertain to coral reef ecosystems.
    Repeatability
    Credit given for only one of EAS-E 341 or GEOL-G 341.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    A survey of the present and past distributions of the world's plants and animals, emphasizing ecological explanation of species distributions. Topics include evolution and distribution of major plant and animal groups, world vegetation, plant and animal domestication, introduction of plant and animal pests, destruction of natural communities, and extinction.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Explores the environmental impact of global population growth, natural resources utilization, and pollution. Examines current problems relating to energy consumption, farming practices, water use, resource development and deforestation from geologic and ecological perspectives. Strategies designed to avert predicted global catastrophe will be examined to determine success potential.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Can humans restore ecosystems and undo the environmental harm they have caused? To what state/extent should ecosystems be restored? What drives the ecological restoration movement? Investigates the deeply interconnected history, philosophy, ecology, geomorphology, and political economy of restoration through readings, discussions, and fieldwork.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Introduction to hydrological processes occurring at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Principles of water resources such as infiltration, runoff, surface- and groundwater flow will be explored. Topics covered also include the environmental, economic, and social implications of floods, droughts, dams, and water usage as well as current and future issues in water quality, water pollution, and water-resource regulation.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Introduction to global environmental change (GEC), focusing on the human causes and consequences of biophysical transformations of land systems. Emphasis on socioeconomic, political, institutional, and environmental dimensions of land change; tropical forests, grasslands, and urbanizing areas; international environmental regimes; spatial methodologies in GEC research, and integrated approaches.
    
    Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE SHcourse
    GEOG-G 467 Ecohydrology
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    Consent of instructor
    Description
    Introduces basic principles and concepts in forest ecohydrology, focusing on modeling perspectives. Examines processes and feedback among water, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes in application to water resources and forest management: control of climate, vegetation change, and disturbance regimes on hydrological and biogeochemical processes.
    
    Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE NMcourse
    HPSC-X 342 The Secret Life of Trees: Scientific, Historical, and Psychological Perspectives on Forests
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    Examines trees and forests as conspicuous natural objects that play a multivalent role in human imagination, thinking, and emotion. Explores the intertwined natural and cultural trajectory of trees along scientific, historical, and psychological dimensions. Topics include ecosystem services, human uses and attitudes, deforestation, IU\'s woodland campus, and ecological ethics.
    
    Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
    
    Summer 2023CASE AHcourse
    SPEA-E 332 INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ECOLOGY
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 363 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 422 URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 456 LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 457 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 460 FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 476 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPEA-E 482 OVERSEAS TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    
    Credits
    0–15 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 310 ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 313 WILDERNESS AND PROTECTED LANDS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-O 360 HUMAN HEALTH AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
    
    SPH-T 301 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
    
    Credits
    3–3 credit hours
    Prerequisites
    None
    Description
    None
5. Individualized. 12 credit hours of courses selected in consultation with the Environmental and Sustainability Studies academic advisor and approved by the director of the program.
Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
2. Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
4. Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Minor Area Courses

Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:

Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken--as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent--except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

Bachelor of Arts in Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ENVSUSTBA)

Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.