Course Requirements and Approved Electives

Required Courses:

• ENVS 1342 Environment, Society, and Sustainability, 
• SUST 3010 Sustainability; Past, Present, and Future
• SUST 4960 Sustainability Capstone.

Course electives:

Most of the following courses listed are offered regularly.

Anthropology [ANTH]

• 3006 Sustainable Development and Culture
• 3210 Urban Food Systems and Sustainability
• 4010/5014 Medical Anthropology: Global Health
• 4020/5014 Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems
• 4030/5030 Ethnobiology
• 4040/5040 Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
• 4050/5050 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
• 4070/5070 Culture of Development and Globalization
• 4080/5080 Global Health Practice
• 4020/5014 Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems
• 4090/5090 Political Economy of the Drug Culture
• 4140/5140 Principles of Economic Anthropology
• 4170/5170 Culture and the Environment
• 4220/5220 Community in a Global Context
• 4450/5450 Conservation and Development: Contemporary Issues
• 4460/5460 Development and Conservation: Theory and Practice
• 4560/5560 Human Ecology
• 6063 Qualitative Methods in Anthropology

Integrated Biology [BIOL]

• 3122 Natural History of Colorado
• 3330 Plant Diversity
• 3411 Principles of Ecology
• 3412 Fundamentals of Applied Ecology
• 3654 General Microbiology
• 4052 Advanced Ecology
• 4154 Conservation Biology
• 4355 Flora of Colorado
• 4415 Microbial Ecology
• 4416 Aquatic Ecology
• 4474 Ecological Methods
• 4910 Field Studies
• 4974 Evolution

Chemistry [CHEM]

• 4700/5700 Environmental Chemistry
• 5710 Air Pollution Chemistry
• 5720 Atmospheric Sampling and Analysis

Communication [COMM]

• 4282/5282 Environmental Communication
• 4410/5410 Science Writing
• 4710/5710 Communication and Environmental Sustainability
• 4710/5710 Environmental Conflict
• 4710/5710 Wilderness Communication

Economics [ECON]

• 4530/5530 Economics of Natural Resources
• 4540/5540 Environment Economics
• 4770 Economic Development: Theory and Problems
• 5530 Economics of Natural Resources
• 5540 Environmental Economics

Engineering [ENGR]

• 3400 Technology and Culture

Environmental Sciences [ENVS]

• 1042 Introduction to Environmental Science
• 1342 Environment, Society and Sustainability
• 5000 Biochemical Cycles
• 5010 Air Pollution
• 5020 Earth Environments and Human Impacts
• 5030 Environmental Geology
• 5600 Applied Statistics for Natural Sciences

Geography [GEOG]

• 3300 Population and Resources in the World Environment
• 4060/5060 Remote Sensing I: Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing
• 4080/5080 Introduction to GIS
• 4090/5090 Environmental Modeling with GIS
• 4220 Environmental Impact Assessment
• 4230/5230 Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment
• 4260 Natural Resource Planning and Management
• 4265/5265 Sustainability in Resource Management
• 4335/5335 Contemporary Environmental Issues
• 4350/5350 Environment and Society in the American Past
• 4420 The Politics of Nature
• 4440 Science, Policy and the Environment
• 4680 Urban Sustainability: Perspectives and Practice
• 4710 Disasters, Climate Change, and Health

History (HIST)

• 3366 Environmental History of North America
• 4240 National Parks History

Philosophy (PHIL)

• 2510 Philosophy of Nature
• 4250 Environmental Ethics

Physics (PHYS)

• 3082 Energy and the Environment

Political Science [PSC]

• 4146 Indigenous Politics
• 4354 Environmental Politics
• 4365 Global Ecological Crises
• 5217 Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• 5276 Conflicts and Rights in International Law
• 5468 Research Methods in Political Science

Public Health (PBHL)

• 2020 Introduction to Environmental Health

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