Requirements and Learning Outcomes

Earn your UBalt degree by majoring in Environmental Sustainability.

These requirements apply to students entering this program in fall 2021 and thereafter.
Students who enrolled earlier should consult the catalog in effect at the time they enrolled.
Read the course descriptions.

Environmental Sustainability Program Requirements (52 credits)

Note: 17 credits of the core Environmental Sustainability program requirements can be satisfied by General Education requirements. An asterisk (*) indicates that course satisfies a General Education requirement.

General Education Requirements (38 credits)

General Electives | Complete as many courses as necessary from any discipline to fulfill your 120-credit requirement to graduate.

General Education requirements for all new students entering UBalt in fall 2022 and after.

Core Courses (43 credits)

Biological Science course (4 credits)

Required course (4 credits):

Course	Title	Credits	Notes
BIOL 121	Fundamentals of Biology*	4

Environmental Science (24 credits)

Complete ALL the following required course (24 credits)

Course	Title	Credits
ENVS 201	Environmental Sustainability*	3
ENVS 221	Science of the Environment*	4
ENVS 285	Environmental Chemistry	4
ENVS 300	Greater Baltimore Urban Ecosystems: Field Investigations	4
ENVS 375	Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology in Society	4
ENVS 420	Research Seminar in Environmental Science	2
ENVS 490	Special Projects in Environmental Sciences	3

Social Science, Ethics, and Public Policy courses (15 credits)

Course	Title	Credits
ANTH 222	Human Environmental Adaptations	3
PHIL 280	Environmental Ethics*	3
PPIA 480	Environmental Politics and Policy	3
PSYC 100	Introduction to Psychology*	3
PSYC 375	Environmental Psychology	3

Major Electives (9 credits)

Choose THREE 3-credit courses (TWO must be from 300+ level courses).

Note: Any course on this list may be taken as a general elective as well.

Government, Policy, and International Affairs

Course	Title	Credits
PPIA 210	Introduction to International Affairs	3
PPIA 315	Public Policy Analysis	3
PPIA 322	Bureaucracy and Public Policy	3
PPIA 324	American Public Policy	3
PPIA 348	Legislative Process	3
PPIA 425	Administrative Law and Processes	3
PPIA 481	Globalization	3

Law and Philosophy

Course	Title	Credits
HIST 340	American Legal History	3
JPLA 200	Introduction to Jurisprudence	3
LEST 401	Legal Foundations	3
LEST 402	Legal Research and Analysis	3
PHIL 250	Social and Political Philosophy	3
PHIL 490	Theories of Justice	3
PHIL 496	International Law and Morality	3
PHIL 497	Special Topics in Philosophy	3

Business and Economics

Course	Title	Credits
ECON 200	The Economic Way of Thinking*	3
ECON 409	International Economics	3
ENTR 101	Imagination, Creativity and Entrepreneurship*	3
ENTR 300	The Entrepreneurial Experience	3
MGMT 101	Business in a Changing World*	3
MKTG 301	Marketing Management	3

Additional Courses

Course	Title	Credits
ANTH 110	Cultural Anthropology*	3
ANTH 410	Cultural Resource Management	3
ANTH 488	Special topics in Anthropology	3
ENVS 175	Ecology*	3
ENVS 310	Special topics in environmental science	3
ENVS 485	Internship in Environmental Sustainability	3
PHSC 101	Earth in Focus*	3
SOCI 303	Urban Sociology	3

General Electives

Course	Title	Credits	Notes
IDIS 101	First Year Seminar: Introduction to University Learning	3	freshmen only; transfer students replace this with a different elective

Complete as many courses as necessary from any discipline to fulfill your 120-credit requirement to graduate.

Information Literacy Requirement

Meet the UBalt Information Literacy graduation requirement by successfully completing ONE of the following options:

Course	Title	Credits	Notes
INFO 110	Introduction to Information Literacy	3

ASSURANCE OF LEARNING: B.A. IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Mission Statement

The Environmental Sustainability program focuses on the interrelationships between human beings and their environments. Exposed to a broad interdisciplinary curriculum, students concentrate either on physical/biological environment or on the cultural environment, performing activities such as field, air, and water quality assessments; molecular biological analyses; and artifact studies. We assist the University of Baltimore in its mission to find solutions to real-world problems and future challenges facing urban communities. Our graduates are prepared to work in the Baltimore area, and in communities throughout the world, in laboratory, field, and office settings, for government, private firms, and nonprofit organizations.

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes

Upon graduating from the B.A. in Environmental Sustainability program, students will be able to:

Outcome 1

Discuss the fundamental terms and concepts of the discipline of environment science.

Outcome 2

Employ the important laboratory, field, and analytical techniques and equipment, of the discipline of environmental science.

Outcome 3

Relate scientific research findings in written and oral forms of communication.

Outcome 4

Characterize human-environmental interactions as viewed from geographical, ecological, anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives.