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Sustainability Studies Pathway

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Troy, NY

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Program
Award
Sustainability Studies Pathway
Catalog edition
Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The pathway in Sustainability 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_2dd59127
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 1000-level Course

5 items
  1. INQR 1110
    Nature/Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. INQR 1240
    Sustainability Debates
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. INQR 1250
    Designing Climate Justice
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. INQR 1320
    A Century of Environmental Thought
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  5. STSO 1100
    Science, Technology, and Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Required 2000-level course

1 item
  1. STSO 2300
    Environment and Society
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Required 4000-level course

13 items
  1. STSO 4260
    Food, Farms, and Famine
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  2. STSO 4280
    Sustainability Education
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  3. STSO 4320
    Environmental Media & Data
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. STSO 4330
    Environmental Justice
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  5. STSO 4340
    Environmental Philosophy
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  6. STSO 4350
    Politics of Design
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  7. STSO 4360
    Community Engagement in a Changing Climate
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  8. STSO 4450
    Global Public Health
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  9. STSO 4500
    Globalization and Development
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  10. STSO 4600
    Design and Innovation Studio A
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  11. STSO 496X
    Sustainable Energy Systems
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  12. STSO 496x – Energy in History
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  13. STSO 486x – Human Futures
    Not resolved to a course
    4

Compatible minor

0 items
    Source. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, catalog Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.rpi.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=34&poid=10180&returnto=938. Captured page pages/0171.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.