Social Justice and Sustainability Minor
This minor has the explicit goal of helping the next generation of leaders and public servants better understand and navigate the key issues facing our world today. The minor offers the following three tracks: environmental sustainability, cultural sustainability, and political and economic sustainability. These tracks allow students to strengthen their chosen major with an emphasis in Social Justice and Sustainability within a complementary discipline.
No more than two courses applied to a minor may overlap with the student's declared major.
Minor Requirements (18 Credits)
Foundation course
| SJS 100 | Sustainability and Social Justice: Ethics, Equality, and Environments | 3 |
Four courses (12 credits) from one of the following Tracks (A, B, or C). At least one course must be at the 300-level. No more than two courses from any one discipline.
Track A: Environmental Sustainability
| BIO 301 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| BIO 330 | Epidemiology, Disease and Public Health | 3 |
| CLCS 250 | Ecocritical Approaches to Film | 3 |
| ENV 200 | Understanding Environmental Issues | 3 |
| ENV 210 | Natural Disasters, Catastrophes, and the Environment | 3 |
| ENV 220 | Ecocritical Approaches to Literature | 3 |
| ENV 240 | Environment and Health | 3 |
| ENV 373T | Sustainability Science (Iceland) | 3 |
| POL 378 | International Politics of Energy and Sustainability | 3 |
Track B: Economic and Political Sustainability
| BUS 342 | Green Marketing and CSR | 3 |
| CLCS 242 | Representations of Poverty in Literature | 3 |
| ECN 303 | Development Economics | 3 |
| ECN 341 | International Trade | 3 |
| ECN 355 | Political Economy: Theories and Issues | 3 |
| HIS 202 | History of Switzerland | 3 |
| HIS 325 | Human Rights in History | 3 |
| POL 377 | International Political Economy | 3 |
| POL 378 | International Politics of Energy and Sustainability | 3 |
| POL 398 | Human Rights in International Law and Politics | 3 |
| POL 302 | Political Philosophy | 3 |
Track C: Cultural Sustainability
| AHT 211 | Collecting Art and the Law | 3 |
| AHT 361 | The Visual Culture of Disaster | 3 |
| CLCS 241 | Forbidden Acts: Queer Studies and Performance | 3 |
| CLCS 254 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories | 3 |
| CLCS 330 | The Politics of Mobility: Exile and Immigration | 3 |
| CLCS 350 | Culture and Human Rights | 3 |
| CLCS 360 | Critical Race Studies in a Global Context | 3 |
| CLCS 371 | Law and Culture | 3 |
| COM 301 | Globalization and Media | 3 |
| FRE 324 | Postcolonial Franco-Maghrebi Literature: Exile, Margins, and Re-Territorialization | 3 |
| HIS 202 | History of Switzerland | 3 |
| HIS 325 | Human Rights in History | 3 |
| STA 235 | Sustainability and the Studio | 3 |
Internship or fieldwork or 3-credit Academic Travel (3 credits)
3-credit Academic Travel options (others may be approved by the department on request):
Environmental Sustainability
| BIO 210T | Alpine Ecosystems | 3 |
| ENV 280T | Managing the New Zealand Environment | 3 |
| ENV 230T | Freshwater Conservation | 3 |
| ENV 373T | Sustainability Science (Iceland) | 3 |
| STA 330T | Umbria: A Warm Refuge for Inspiration: Art, Music and Life in Umbria, the Heart of Italy | 3 |
Economic and Political Sustainability
| POL 281T | Politics of Sustainability and Development | 3 |
Cultural Sustainability
| CLCS 238T | Reading the Postcolonial City: Berlin and Hamburg | 3 |
| CLCS 247T | French Cultural Institutions: Power and Representation | 3 |
| STA 331T | Umbria: Sustaining Art in the Heart of Italy | 3 |