Sustainability & Environmental Studies
Academic programs
Undergraduate program
18 Credit minor:
Interested in declaring an Sustainability and Environmental Studies minor? Please use this link.
Core courses:
ENV 101: Intro to Sustainability & Environmental Studies
One environmental justice topic (ENV 350-354 or SOC 332)
Two other ENV topics courses (ENV 310-354) or ENV 450
ENV 496: Community-Engaged Sustainability Capstone
One Interdisciplinary elective from this list:
BIO 307 Ecology
BIO 341 Limnology
BIO 441 Aquatic Toxicology
BIO 464 Stream and Watershed Ecology
BIO 473 Marine Biology
BIO 476 Ecosystem Ecology
CHM 412 Aquatic and Soil Chemistry
GEO 101 Earth Environments
GEO 211 Global Climate Change
GEO 221 Weather and Climate
GEO 222 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
GEO 422 Meteorology
GEO 425 Biogeography
GEO 428 Past Environmental Change
GEO 430 River Systems
GEO 460 Environmental Hazards
MIC 350 Bacterial Diversity
MIC 434 Aquatic Microbial Ecology
ARC 404 Environmental Archaeology
ECO 346 Environmental and Ecological Economics
GEO 200 Conservation of Global Environments
GEO 310 Transportation Equity and Sustainable Communities
GEO 321 Sustainable Development and Conservation
GEO 340 Polar Environments
GEO 427 Sustainable Water Resource Management
PH 335 Environmental Health
PSY 302 Environmental Issues: Applied Psychology
PUB 338 Environmental Policy
REC 306 NatureRx: Environmental Ethics and Behaviors in Recreation and Tourism
REC 330 Principles of Recreational Land Management
REC 360 Sustainable Tourism
RTH 420 Nature and Forest Therapy
SOC 311 Rural and Urban Communities
SOC 328 Environmental Sociology (if not taken in the core)
SOC 332 Environmental Justice (if not taken in the core)
ART 331 Art and the Environment in the United States
CST 213 Public Advocacy & Dialogue
CST 312 Environmental Communication
ENG 387 Literature and Environmental Action
HIS 309 History of U.S. Science and Technology
HIS 317 American Environmental History
HIS 321 Wisconsin History
HIS 338 Sugar, Coffee, Rubber, Bananas: Commodities in World History
HIS 371 Knowing the Oceans: A History of Human Understanding of the Ocean
Environment
PHL 341 Environmental Ethics
Sustainability and Environmental Studies minor in the current UWL catalog, which will be updated in summer 2026.
Sustainability & Environmental Studies Program Learning Outcomes:
1. Integrate equity and complexity in approaching environmental problems.
2. Differentiate multidisciplinary approaches to environmental issues.
3. Reflect critically about their roles as citizens, consumers, and participants in an interconnected world.