Offered as a Secondary Discipline Minor
The Minor in Sustainability prepares students for a range of careers in environmental sustainability. Our unique curriculum is designed to integrate physical and natural sciences, social science, project management, and business.
Our field-oriented curriculum takes advantage of the unique environmental setting of our region and provides opportunities to work with local agencies and businesses. Â鶹´«Ã½ Oregon, with its renewable energy industry, environmental non-profits, federal resource management agencies, and environmental planning leadership is the perfect location to train as a sustainability professional, climate change analyst, consultant, corporate sustainability specialist, environmental planner, and more.
Our Bachelor of Science in Sustainability not only prepares students for a wide variety of employment in governmental agencies, industry, non-profits and environmental consulting firms, but also prepares students for graduate and professional schools in environmental policy and management, geography, law, public policy, wildlife management, and sustainability management.
Students committed to interdisciplinary sustainability management, corporate sustainability, environmental protection, and environmental policy.
The Sustainability minor requires the completion of 26 credits of coursework. Students complete a series of introductory courses in environmental sciences, economics, and sustainability. Students also complete 12 credits of upper-division sustainability courses.
Sustainability minors pursue majors in a wide range of disciplines including biology, business, sociology & anthropology, outdoor adventurer leadership, and communication. Sustainability minors deepen their professional portfolio with introductory coursework in the sciences, economics, food systems, and management as well as upper-division courses in sustainability. Regardless of your chosen career path, the broad skills you will learn in the sustainability minor will help you stand out in a fast changing world.
*The Ecology & Conservation, BS is housed within the Biology website.
Environmental Science, Policy, and Sustainability Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6802
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