2026-2027 Course Catalog

Source: https://catalog.illinois.edu/undergraduate/provost/minors/sustainability-energy-environment/ Parent: https://catalog.illinois.edu/degree-programs/undergraduate_index/

for the Undergraduate Minor in the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Fellows Program

Why is true sustainability so hard to achieve? Behind every environmentally friendly practice is a web of consequences, trade-offs, feedbacks, and barriers — and this undergraduate minor administered by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) will help you develop a systems-level perspective of the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability to help you navigate them.

The Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Fellows Program (SEE FP) is a campuswide undergraduate minor that prepares students for pursuing careers in the corporate sector, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and environmental advocacy groups.

To find out more about the minor and the enrollment process, email Eric Green, iSEE Instructor/Advisor, at see-fellows@illinois.edu.

for the Undergraduate Minor in the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Fellows Program

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | ENVS 301 | Tools for Sustainability | 3 | | ENVS 492 | Sustainability, Energy and Environment Capstone | 4 | | Introduction to Sustainability: Choose one of the following | | 3 | | ANTH 278 | Climate Change & Civilization | | | CPSC 336 | Tomorrow's Environment | | | ESE 200 | Earth Systems | | | ESE 210 | Social & Environmental Issues | | | NRES 287 | Environment and Society | | | Economic/Policy/Social Dimensions: Choose one of the following | | 3-4 | | ACE 210 | Environmental Economics & Policy | | | ACE 255 | Economics of Food and Environmental Justice | | | ACE 406 | Environmental Law | | | AGCM 330 | Environmental Communications | | | ATMS 322 | Soc Impacts Weather & Climate | | | ENSU 303 | Sustainable Business I | | | ESE 311 | Environmental Issues Today | | | ESE 482 | Challenges of Sustainability | | | GGIS 410 | Green Development | | | GGIS 465 | Transportation &Sustainability | | | LA 370 | Environmental Sustainability | | | LA 446 | Sustainable Planning Seminar | | | MDIA 223 | Watching the Environment | | | NRES 224 | Environmental and Climate Justice | | | NRES 325 | Natural Resource Policy Mgmt | | | NRES 425 | Natural Resources Law & Policy | | | NRES 428 | Valuing Nature | | | NRES 472 | Environmental Psychology | | | PS 225 | Environmental Politics & Policy | | | RST 242 | Nature and American Culture | | | SOC 447 | Environmental Sociology | | | UP 460 | Transportation/Land Use Policy | | | UP 486 | Planning with Climate Change | | | Environmental/Natural Systems: Choose one of the following | | 3-4 | | ABE 452 | Engineering for Disaster Resilience | | | ANTH 361 | Ecology and Human Health | | | ARTD 326 | Sustainability & Manufacturing | | | ARTS 321 | Sustainable Fashion Development and Branding | | | ATMS 307 | Climate Processes | | | CEE 330 | Environmental Engineering | | | CHEM 360 | Chemistry of the Environment | | | ECE 333 | Green Electric Energy | | | ENSU 310 | Renewable & Alternative Energy | | | ESE 320 | Water Planet, Water Crisis | | | ESE 445 | Earth Resources Sustainability | | | FAA 230 | Sustainable Design of the Built Environment | | | GEOL 333 | Earth Materials and the Env | | | GGIS 220 | Landscapes, Ecosystems and Environmental Change | | | HK 408 | Environmental Health | | | HORT 435 | Urban Food Production | | | IB 440 | Plants and Global Change | | | LA 466 | Energy & the Built Environment | | | ME 400 | Energy Conversion Systems | | | MSE 489 | Matl Select for Sustainability | | | NPRE 201 | Energy Systems (Must take section for 3 credit hours) | | | NRES 219 | Applied Ecology | | | NRES 348 | Fish and Wildlife Ecology | | | NRES 429 | Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation | | | Total Hours | | 16-18 |

for the Undergraduate Minor in the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Fellows Program

Sustainability touches many different academic disciplines all with the underpinnings of understanding environmental impacts. Through this minor, students will be able to:

1. Recall a variety of environmental impacts.
2. Discuss the social and natural phenomenon that create those impacts.
3. Apply their disciplinary lens when determining methodologies to study those phenomenon.
4. Devise technical and social solutions to those negative environmental impacts.
5. Provide those solutions in real-world contexts with external evaluation.

for the Undergraduate Minor in the Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Fellows Program

Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Eric Green, Instructor/Advisor\ 1101 W. Peabody, Suite 350 (NSRC), MC-635 | Urbana, IL 61801\ see-fellows@illinois.edu\ 217.333.4178\ fax: 217.244.2006\ Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment website