Environment & Sustainability Minor

Introducing the Environment & Sustainability minor. Open to all undergraduate students across Georgetown University, the E&S minor is designed to provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary understanding of today’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Requirements

The E&S minor will encapsulate the learning goals built into the BS-ES degree, including an inherent interdisciplinarity that encompasses science, policy, and humanities perspectives. The E&S minor requires students to complete:

Required Courses

Required Foundational CoursesCreditsCore Requirement Fulfillment
ERTH-1050: Environmental & Sustainability Science I3 crScience for All (when taken with ERTH-1051)
ERTH-1051: Environmental & Sustainability Science I Lab1 crScience for All (when taken with ERTH-1050)
ERTH-1060: Environmental & Sustainability Science II3 cr
ERTH-1061: Environmental & Sustainability Science II Lab1 cr
ERTH 2240: Environmental Justice3 crPathways to Social Justice

Required interruption/integration courses:

Choose a pairing of interruption/integration courses (1008 + 1009 or 1018 + 1019) below. If all four are taken, this fulfills the College’s Humanities: Arts, Literature, and Cultures (HALC) requirement.

Interruption/Integration CoursesCreditsCore Requirement Fulfillment
ERTH-1008: Opening Interruption: Ecological Belonging1 crHALC if taken with ERTH-1009,-1018,-1019
ERTH-1009: Closing Integration: Wellbeing1 crHALC if taken with ERTH-1008,-1018,-1019
ERTH-1018: Opening Interruption: Environment & Power 1 crHALC if taken with ERTH-1008,-1009,-1019
ERTH-1019: Closing Integration: Embodied Transformation1 crHALC if taken with ERTH-1008,-1009,-1018

How to Declare

The minor can be declared by filling out a change of program form in the College or emailing your Dean in any other schools.