FOR ESS (Enviromnental and Sustainability Studies) MINORS at UTA [SCROLL DOWN FOR APPROVED ESS COURSES]

 

Check out the new cross-disciplinary Minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies! Taking advantage of the many courses on sustainability and the environment offered throughout the university, this broadly interdisciplinary program provides students a powerful way to enrich their education and more effectively apply their major field of study to some of the most complex and crucial problems of the new millennium. In an era when concerns about the atmosphere, oceans, biodiversity, energy, urban sprawl, toxins, human health, and environmental justice are dramatically intensifying, the ESS program opens important new career paths and responds to the need for environmentally savvy citizens in all areas of contemporary society.

The official UTA website for the ESS Minor is at SUPA; you can find information about the minor and its requirements here. As Coordinator of the ESS Minor I keep this web page in order to give students the most up to date information, especially about course offerings. For advising, please contact Erin Townsend, in SUPA: erinetownsend@uta.edu, 817-272-0899. If you are minoring in ESS but haven't officially declared the minor, we really need you to **declare** your ESS minor so that we know how many students we have in the program and how we can offer courses you need!

If you are minoring in ESS and have questions about whether a course will count, or suggestions for more courses, please contact me: Dr. Alaimo: alaimo@uta.edu. The best place to find information about specific UTA courses is by looking at the faculty member's Research Profile--since all faculty are *required* to post their syllabi to their profile. For a partial list of UTA Faculty Experts on sustainability and environment, click here.

Students and faculty: Please join the Facebook group: "ESS Minors at UTA"

For a wealth of information about sustainability on university and college campuses see the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) website. You may wish to consider a career in the ield of sustainability or another environmentally-related position. See Orion's Green Jobs list.

For more information about academic programs, events, and other opportunities to get involved in sustainability and environmentalism at UTA click here for the Mavericks Go Green web pages. UTA has an active student group, The Environmental Society, with a FB page.

COURSES APPROVED FOR ESS--Summer 2013:

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Business [no summer courses available in Group 1 as far as I know]

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

COURSES APPROVED FOR ESS--FALL 2013: [more courses to be announced; please email me if you would like a course to be considered for inclusion]

Please note that whether or not topics courses will count for the ESS Minor depends on the *specific topic and the instructor* for that particular section of the course. Some topics courses--with the same course number--will contain ESS content and some won't so please be careful.

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Business

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

ESS Approved courses for SPRING 2014: [more courses to be announced]

River Legacy Park with Dr. MorrisESS Minors at River Legacy Park

GENERAL LISTING OF COURSES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES MINOR

(Note that these courses are not offered every semester. Topics courses must be identified by the specific topic and the instructor, not just the course number. Check each semester's list of approved courses to be certain a course will count. See above.)

ESST 2300: Core Course for the Minor

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Business

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

Civil Engineering:

Mechanical Engineering:

Canoe trip: Dr. Chris Morris' Environmental History Course Spring 2012Canoe trip: Dr. Chris Morris' Environmental History Course, Spring 2012

 

ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS ESS COURSE OFFERINGS

COURSES APPROVED FOR ESS--SPRING 2013:

ESST 2300: Core Course for the Minor: Douglas Klahr (Architecture) T/TH 11-12:20

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Business

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

Note: Starting Spring 2013 the ESS Minor will be reconfigured to include two groups of courses--not three. (Groups 1 and 3 have been combined.) This should make it easier for students to fulfill the distribution requirement for the minor.

Approved ESS Courses offered in SUMMER 2012

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social and Cultural Studies

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

GROUP 3 - Architecture and Urban and Public Affairs
None

Approved ESS Courses offered in FALL 2012:

GROUP 1 - Liberal Arts, Social and Cultural Studies

GROUP 2 - Natural Sciences and Engineering

Civil Engineering:

Mechanical Engineering:

GROUP 3 - Architecture and Urban and Public Affairs