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BA - Sustainable Communities

Sustainable Communities

This concentration is designed for students interested in social relations and environmental sustainability with urban and rural communities. Please Note: This is the teach out plan and changes are noted in bold italics.

Foundation Courses

Concentration (21 Unit Minimum)

Must take at least one 400 level capstone course during junior/senior year. Breadth courses not double-counted in the concentration. Units GE
GEP 333 Natural Resource Planning 4  
GEP 324 Climate Change & Society 4  
GEP 360 Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning 4  
GEP 362 Environmental Impact Assessment 3-4  
GEP 363 Land Use Law 3  
GEP 364 Environmental Planning 4  
GEP 367 Transportation Policy and Technology 3-4  
GEP 368 Urban Design 3-4  
GEP 370 Globalization and the City 4  
GEP 371 Social Geography 3  
GEP 373 Energy, Technology, & Society 3-4  
GEP 374 A Carbon and Energy Reductions 3  
GEP 374 B Laboratory Methods for Energy 1  
GEP 375 Renewable and Resilient Energy Sources 4  
GEP 461 Planning Practice and Methodology 3-4  
GEP 476 Energy Services and Efficiency 4  

Supporting Courses

Choose any two courses from the following: (substitutions possible in consultation with an adivsor)

Units GE
ANTH 352 Global Issues 4  
ECON 204 Macroeconomics 4 D5
ECON 205 Microeconomics 4 D2
ECON 381 Natural Resources and Environ. Economics 4  
POLS 314 Environmental Political Theory 4  
SOCI 425 Urban Sociology 4  
POLS 452 Politics of the Developing World 4  
SOCI 482 Sociology of the Environment 4  
SSCI 299 Sophmore Seminar: How to Think Like a Social Scientist 3 E
WGS 385 Transnational Feminisms 4