Student Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from this program will:

• Sustainability students can describe the interactions and feedbacks of Earth systems, have knowledge of environmental policy and urban planning, and are engaged in sustainability issues at many scales.
• Sustainability students will be actively involved with diverse communities throughout their course work, and assess sustainability challenges from multiple cultural perspectives and through world experiences.
• Sustainability students will demonstrate this learning through the application of advanced sustainable knowledge, quantitative, and analytical skills in their application to new settings and complex problems.
• Sustainability students will have the ability to characterize human-environmental interactions analytically and communicate their findings effectively.

Program Description

Global populations are becoming predominantly urban and the state of the environment is central to issues of quality of life, health and safety. The Sustainability minor program provides students with the most innovative preparation in urban environmental sustainability through course work that cross cuts multiple disciplines and focuses on integrative solutions. Students develop a foundation knowledge in Earth systems. Students engage the challenges of sustainability through course work and community problem solving in sustainable thinking, planning, policy, and design. Undergraduate students gain essential life skills, a foundation in complex environmental and human systems, and critical problem solving skills.

Program Requirements

Courses which do not apply as credit in the Minor program are: GEOG 417, GEOG 398, ENV-STDY 499WI

Requirements

Minimum of 18 hours, Minimum of 9 hours from UMKC

Minimum of 9 Junior/Senior (300/400) level courses.