EXAMPLE CLUSTER OPTION FOR BUSINESS MAJOR
A Business major wishing to work internationally might explore the reaches of Ideas about the Environment in preparation for working in the international environmental field.
An example of this composition of the minor could look like:
Step 1. Introductory course
An example introductory course for a business major could be:
- GEOG 030 Geographic Perspectives on Human-Environment Relations
Step 2. Nine credits from cluster courses
Selecting the Cluster C Sustainable Development: Environmental Explorations you could choose one course each from social science, natural science, and arts and humanities, for example:
- PL SC International Political Economy
- GEOSC 020 Planet Earth
- PHIL 403 Environmental Ethics
Alternatively, a business major might also choose to pursue cluster option D: Environmental Literacy: Ideas about the Environment and take courses like
- ECON 428 Environmental Economics
- SOC/S T S/ EM SC 420 Energy and Modern Society
- STS 101 Modern Science, Technology, And Human Values
Step 3. Additional 3 credit course
Step three would be to choose an additional 400-level environmentally related course outside the college and disciplinary group of your major, for example:
- W F S/ FOR 430 Conservation Biology or
- GEOG 406 Human Use of the Environment.
Step 4. Final course
As your final course you could take, for example:
- ERM 430 Pollution impacts to terrestrial ecosystems









