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Bachelor's

Sustainability Studies (BA)

The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts 168 courses 120 total credits

About This Program

The Plan of Study is a suggested four-year course sequence to support academic planning and serves as a helpful guide. Currently enrolled students should meet with their academic advisor to tailor their course selections and timelines to their individual goals and circumstances. All requirements are listed below, starting with the most specialized moving to the most general. Additional requirements may follow the table, so be sure to read the entire page. Some required courses listed below may also satisfy General Education requirements, including Core Curriculum. Credit may be earned via credit by examination, extension, or transferred hours from another institution (requires dean's approval).

Degree Requirements

Foreign Language other than English, Beginning Proficiency credits
College Requirements - Liberal Arts credits
General University Requirements credits
Three Hours chosen from: credits
Art history, music history, or history of theatre and dance credits
Upper-division classical civilization, humanities, literature, or philosophy credits
Sequence 2: Plan I International Relations and Global Studies credits
Free electives: Additional coursework to reach total hours required. credits
Sequence 3: Other Plan I credits
Hours chosen from: credits
Transcript-recognized minor or certificate credits
Liberal Arts multi-disciplinary minor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences credits
Liberal Arts multi-disciplinary minor in Cultural Expression, Human Experience, and Thought credits

Major

Code Course Title Credits
SUS 301 Introduction to Sustainability Studies 3

Major

Hours chosen from: Research and Design Methods

Code Course Title Credits
ANT 324L.33 Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Paleontology 3
ANT 340C Ethnographic Research Methods 3
ARC 328R Topics in Visualization and Fabrication 3
GRG 410C Spatial Data and Analysis
GRG 324E Applications and Ethics of Digital Spatial Technologies 3
GRG 460G Environmental Geographic Information Systems 4
GRG 462K Introduction to Remote Sensing of the Environment 4
GRG 373F Field Techniques 3
GRG 369D GIS Applications in Social and Environmental Science 3
PSY 317L Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 3
SDS 301 Elementary Statistical Methods 3
SDS 302F Foundations of Data Analysis 3
SOC 317L Introduction to Social Statistics 3
URB 315 Urban Studies Research Methods 3
SOC 327M Social Research Methods 3
ADV 309R Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations Research 3
GOV 339L Research Methods in Government 3
Total Major 3 credits

Major

Society and Sustainability (See course list)

Code Course Title Credits
SUS 379L Directed Internships in Sustainability 3

Degree

Literature and Writing

Code Course Title Credits
RHE 306 Rhetoric and Writing 3

Degree

Sequence 1: Plan II Honors (requires at least a C-; may also count toward Core Curriculum)

Code Course Title Credits
E 303C or T C 303C Plan II World Literature Part I or Plan II World Literature Part I 3

Degree

Sequence 2: Plan I E 316L may also be replaced by E 316N.

Code Course Title Credits
E 316L or E 316M British Literature or American Literature 3

Degree

Sequence 1: Plan II Honors (requires at least a C-; may also count toward Core Curriculum) S S 302C may also be replaced by S S 302E, S S 302E, S S 302F.

Code Course Title Credits
S S 302C or S S 302D Honors Social Science: Methods and Theory or Honors Social Science: Psychology 3

Degree

Sequence 1: Plan II Honors

Code Course Title Credits
M 310P Modern Mathematics: Plan II 3

Degree

Sequence 1: Plan II Honors

Code Course Title Credits
T C 310 or PHL 313Q Modes of Reasoning or Logic and Scientific Reasoning 3

Degree

Six Hours chosen from: Astronomy, biology, chemistry, geological sciences, physical science, or physics (may also count toward Core Curriculum)

Code Course Title Credits
BIO 301E Problems in Modern Biology 3
PHY 321 Modern Physics: Plan II 3

Environmental Politics and Policy

Code Course Title Credits
AMS 370.26 American Food 3
AMS 370.34 American Disasters 3
AMS 370 Topics in Seminar in American Culture 3
ANS 361 Topics in Asian Studies 3
ANT 324L Topics in Anthropology 3
ARC 327R.28 Sustainability: Why This Way 3
C E 370L Climate Change Mitigation 3
CHE 359 Energy Technology and Policy 3
E 343S Sustainability and Representation 3
GOV 341M Decision Theory 3
GOV 342N Public Choice 3
GOV 347P Politics of Protecting the Great Barrier Reef 3
GOV 365U European Environmental Politics 3
GRG 320J Environmental Justice 3
GRG 340D Political Ecology of Globalization and Environmental Degradation 3
GRG 344K Global Food, Farming, and Hunger 3
GRG 350K Geographies of Globalization 3
LAH 350 Topics in the Liberal Arts 3
M E 363M Energy Technology and Policy 3
NTR 331 International Nutrition: Social and Environmental Policies 3
MAS 374 Special Topics 3
PHL 325D Environmental Ethics and Philosophy 3
S W 331 Applied Social Ethics 3
SOC 309C Creating the Sustainable Society 3
SOC 321C Consumption in Latin America 3
SOC 340C Globalization 3
SOC 369K Population and Society 3
T C 358 Topics in Plan II Junior Seminar 3

Environmental Economics, Business, and Sustainability Development

Code Course Title Credits
AMS 370 Topics in Seminar in American Culture 3
ANT 324L Topics in Anthropology 3
BGS 372 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility 3
ECO 301 Introduction to Economics 3
ECO 304K Introduction to Microeconomics 3
ECO 304L Introduction to Macroeconomics 3
ECO 359M Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 3
ECO 330T Topics in Economics 3
ECO 330T.2 Introduction to Law and Economics 3
GRG 337 The Modern American City 3
GRG 339K Environment, Development, and Food Production 3
GRG 342C Sustainable Development 3
LAS 388 Topics in Latin American Geography 3
PGE 301 Engineering, Energy, and the Environment 3
PHL 325L Business, Ethics, and Public Policy 3
TXA 365 Advanced Topics in Textiles and Apparel 3
TXA 365 Advanced Topics in Textiles and Apparel 3

Science of Sustainability and Natural Resources

Code Course Title Credits
ADV 378 Advanced Topics in Advertising 3
BIO X37 Selected Topics in Biology 1-4
C E 370L Climate Change Mitigation 3
EVE 302 Foundations of Environmental Engineering 3
GEO 302G Earth Science and Sustainability 3
GEO 338J Marine Geology 3
GEO 347D Global Warming 3
GEO 347G Climate System Modeling 3
GEO 371T Topics in Geological Sciences: Undergraduate Seminar 3
GEO 377P Physical Climatology 3
GRG 301K Weather and Climate 3
GRG 306C Conservation 3
GRG 330W Water and Watersheds 3
GRG 331K Nature, Society, and Adaptation 3
GRG 333C Severe and Unusual Weather 3
GRG 334K Soils 3
GRG 334L Vulnerability to Natural Hazards 3
GRG 335N Landscape Ecology 3
GRG 336C National Parks and Protected Areas 3
GRG 338C Rivers and Landscapes: Fluvial Geomorphology 3
GRG 339 Process Geomorphology 3
GRG 350E Geoprocessing 3
GRG 329S Topics in Geography 3
GRG 356D Water Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean 3
GRG 366C Comparative Ecosystems 3
GRG 366K Biogeography 3
GRG 367K Vegetation Ecology 3
GRG 301C The Natural Environment 3
GRG 304E Environmental Science: A Changing World 3
MNS 307 Introduction to Oceanography 3
MNS 308 Humans and a Changing Ocean 3
MNS 310 Fundamentals of Marine Science 3
MNS 320 Marine Ecology 3
MNS 352C Estuarine Ecology 3
MNS 354Q Marine Environmental Science 3

Society and Sustainability

Code Course Title Credits
AFR 351U Race, Capitalism, and the Environment 3
AFR 370 Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies 3
AMS 311S Topics in Introductory Seminar in American Studies 3
AMS 370 Topics in Seminar in American Culture 3
ANS 361 Topics in Asian Studies 3
ANT 302 Cultural Anthropology 3
ANT 324L Topics in Anthropology 3
ARC 327G Regenerative Architecture 3
ARC 327R Topics in Architectural Theory 3
ARC 350R Topics in Design Theory 3
ARC 350R Topics in Design Theory 3
ARC 368R Topics in the History of Architecture 3
C E 377K Topics in Civil Engineering 3
CHE 341 Design for Environment 3
CRW 335 Business of Writing 3
DES 322 Design and the Social Environment 3
E 343G Global Environmental Literature and Film 3
E 345F Food Writing, Culture, and Environment 3
GOV 335M Topics in Political Thought 3
GRG 305 This Human World: An Introduction to Geography 3
GRG 319 Geography of Latin America 3
GRG 320M Geography of Media 3
GRG 322D Human Health and the Environment 3
GRG 324E Applications and Ethics of Digital Spatial Technologies 3
GRG 325E The Healthy, Livable City 3
GRG 334E Children's Environmental Health 3
GRG 335D Anthropocene 3
GRG 357 Medical Geography 3
H S 340 Topics in Health and Society 3
H S 340 Topics in Health and Society 3
HIS 317L.14 Building America: Engineering, Society, and Culture, 1868-1980 3
HIS 322R Biology, Behavior, and Injustice 3
HIS 350L.95 Radical Hope and Global Environmental History 3
HIS 350L Topics in Undergraduate Seminar in History 3
HIS 350L Topics in Undergraduate Seminar in History 3
HIS 350R.7 Environmental History of North America 3
J 305 Sustainability and the News 3
J 346F Reporting on the Environment 3
LAH 350 Topics in the Liberal Arts 3
LAS 370S Topics in Hispanic Literature, Culture, Civilization, and Linguistics 3
MAS 374 Special Topics 3
MNS 308 Humans and a Changing Ocean 3
MNS 367K Human Exploration and Exploitation of the Sea 3
NTR 321 International Nutrition: The Developing World 3
P A 325 Topics in Policy 3
PBH 338 Environmental Health 3
PHL 304 Contemporary Moral Problems 3
PHL 316K Science and Philosophy 3
PHL 322 Science and the Modern World 3
PHL 325M Medicine, Ethics, and Society 3
RHE 328 Topics in Professional and Technical Writing for Liberal Arts Majors 3
RHE 330C Advanced Topics in Digital Rhetoric 3
RHE 330C Advanced Topics in Digital Rhetoric 3
R S 311 Topics in Religious Studies 3
S S 302E Honors Social Science: Anthropology 3
S S 302E Honors Social Science: Anthropology 3
S W 327 Human Behavior and Social Environment 3
SOC 302 Introduction to the Study of Society 3
SOC 307Q Environmental Inequality and Health 3
SOC 321V Environmental Sociology 3
SOC 323F Food and Society 3
SOC 336C American Dilemmas 3
URB 301 Introduction to Urban Studies 3

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