Green Technology Minor: As individuals, businesses, and communities seek solutions to pressing environmental concerns, the green technology minor is positioned as an emerging source of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and action toward the development of sustainable land use practices. This minor seeks to provide students with a broad-based education in preparation for careers in landscape-related industries such as contracting, maintenance, nursery production, and garden-center operations. While covering pragmatic issues associated with the maintenance and management of gardens and properties, the curriculum also gives students opportunities to study best practices and new approaches to on-site storm water management, energy production, and healthy ecological systems.
Green Technologies Minor Graduation Requirements (20 credits)
Required Courses (8 credits)
11:573:231 Fundamentals of Environmental Planning (3) or 11:550:233 Environmental Design Analysis (3)
11:550:241 Construction I - Mapping and Engineering (5)
Plus 3 credits of the following:
11:573:202 Environmental Issues (3)
11:573:445 Ecological Design and Stewardship (3)
11:573:444 Watershed Management: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (3)
11:573:413 Open Spaces Planning and Management (3)
11:216:217 Principles of Natural Resource Management (3)
10:762/832/971:202 Designing Healthy Cities (3)
11:550:221 Site Design (3)
11:550:333 Design Build Studio (5)
10:762/971:201 Introduction to Urban Planning and Design (3)
11:550:443 Studio Abroad Germany Studio (5)
11:704:421 Wetland Ecology (3)
Plus 12 credits of the following:
Landscape Industries
11:550:331 Praxis EC and Design Build (5)
11:550:341 Construction II Materials and Engineering I (4)
11:550:442 Sustainable Technology (3)
Prerequisite: 11:550:341 Construction II - Materials and Engineering I
Urban Forestry
11:216:403 Urban Forestry (3)
11:216:456 Trees and the Environment (3)
11:704:365 Arboriculture (4)
11:704:377 Practicum in Forest Management (BA)
Design and Maintenance of Sustainable Landscapes (must take at least 3 credits from this category)
11:550:439 Transforming Suburbia: Residential Design, Age of Sustainability (3)
11:550:340 Planting Design (4)
10:762/832/971:202 Designing Healthy Cities (3)
11:776:112 Introduction to Bioenergy Technologies (3)
Economics of Sustainability
11:373:202 Sustainability Decision Tools (3)
