A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.
Program
- Award
- Minor
- Catalog edition
- Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027
- Checklist type
- degree-program
- Description
- The minor in Sustainability Studies focuses on the interactions between various systems—social, political, cultural, economic, technological, and ecological —that undergird environmental sustainability. Students use interdisciplinary approaches to investigate environmental problems.
Identifiers
- IPEDS UNITID
- 194824
- CourseShelf checklist
- CK_194824_ae451421
- CollegeTransfer.Net
- Institution Transfer Profile
- Source
- CourseShelf publish 61
Requirements to complete
Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.
Required 2000-level Core Course
1 item
- STSO 2300Environment and SocietyNot resolved to a course4
Choose one of the following
Choose 1 of the following · Choose one of the following · 6 items
- INQR 1100Science, Technology, and SocietyNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 1100Science, Technology, and SocietyNot resolved to a course4
- INQR 1110Nature/SocietyNot resolved to a course4
- INQR 1240Sustainability DebatesNot resolved to a course4
- INQR 1250Designing Climate JusticeNot resolved to a course4
- INQR 1320A Century of Environmental ThoughtNot resolved to a course4
Choose two of the following
Choose 2 of the following · Choose two of the following · 9 items
- STSO 4260Food, Farms, and FamineNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4280Sustainability EducationNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4320Environmental Media & DataNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4330Environmental JusticeNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4340Environmental PhilosophyNot resolved to a courseor: PHIL 4300 - Environmental Philosophy4
- STSO 4350Politics of DesignNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4360Community Engagement in a Changing ClimateNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4500Globalization and DevelopmentNot resolved to a course4
- STSO 4600Design and Innovation Studio ANot resolved to a course4
Source. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, catalog Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.rpi.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=34&poid=10128&returnto=938. Captured page pages/0288.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.