Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Sustainability and Environmental Management Minor

This is a 6 cu University Interschool Minor

As a University Interschool Minor, each student should be advised by the designated advisor in his/her home school.

MINOR REQUIREMENTS

Planner for the Sustainability and Management Minor

(Minimum 15 credits for Major / 35 credits total )

CORE COURSES- THERE ARE 4 required courses and 2 elective courses for this minor. Course requirements include courses from Wharton, Engineering and SAS.

The required coursework for the minor includes 4 course units from the following:

1. ENVS 200 (SAS): Introduction to Environmental Earth Science
   (students are recommended to take this course during their sophomore or junior years.)
2. EAS 401: Energy and its impacts: technology, ecology, economics and sustainability OR EAS 402: Renewable energy and its impact (SEAS)
3. Two out of the three following courses:
   LGST 215/815 (Wharton): Environmental Management Law and Policy
   OPIM/BPUB 261/SYS 567 (Wharton): Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
   BPUB 204 (Wharton): Cost-Benefit Analysis
   (Engineering students may substitute ESE 400 for BPUB 204)

The other two courses should be chosen from the following electives:

• LGST 215: Environmental Law and Business
• LGST 230: Social Impact and Responsibility
• OPIM/BPUB 261/SYS 567: Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
• BPUB 204: Cost-Benefit Analysis
• (any of the three above may be used as an elective if not used as a required course)
• BIOL 140: Humans and the Environment
• BIOL 240: Ecology and Population Biology
• BIOL 456: Issues in Conservation
• CBE 375: Engineering and the Environment
• ENVS 204: Global Climate Change
• ENVS 301: Case Studies in the Environment
• ENVS 312: Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Implications for Future Climate Change
• ENVS 400: Cancer Toxicology
• ENVS 400: Maintenance of Wetlands Environments (alternate term)
• ENVS 401: Water Resources in the Middle East
• ENVS 402: Environmental Chemistry
• ENVS 403: Case Studies in Ecology
• ENVS 404: The Urban Environment
• ENVS 463: Urban Brownfields
• ENVS 494: Toward Environmental Sustainability on Penn's Campus
• ESE 400: Engineering Economics
• GEOL 421: Elemental Cycling in Global Systems
• INSR 205: Risk Management
• ENVS437: Global Water Issues
  

Advising

Students interested in the OEVM minor should contact the advisor for their school listed below:

SAS: Maria Antonia Andrews

SEAS: Dr. Wen K. Shieh

Wharton: Joanne Spigonardo

Governance

Governance of the minor, including decisions about changes in coursework and other structural matters, will be the province of a faculty committee selected from among those faculty who created the minor or others designated by the relevant departments. It will be the responsibility of this multi-School committee, in collaboration with the offices of the Vice Deans and Associate Deans of the Schools involved, to: a) maintain the list of approved courses for the minor; b) ensure that students in all three undergraduate Schools know that the minor is a curricular option for them; and c) to provide advising as necessary to prospective students and to those enrolled in the minor.