University of North Carolina, Greensboro
ER-10: Undergraduate Program in Sustainability

Information for this credit was compiled by Dr. Bill Markham, Director of UNCG's Environmental Studies Program. The Environmental Studies Program includes a broad range of content relating to sustainability issues. The introductory course includes sections about environment and politics and environment and economics, and there is a unit on environmental justice. The section on sociology and the environment focuses on how the consumption levels of affluent citizens in developed countries contribute disproportionately to national and world environmental problems and on how the legitimate aspirations of the poorest citizens of these countries for a larger piece of the pie might be accommodated without exacerbating environmental problems. Environmental problems on the international scale receive considerable attention throughout the course, including discussions of how the politics and economics of the developing world produce different environmental problems requiring different solutions and consideration of how the policies and economies of developed countries contribute to environmental problems of developing nations. Problems of achieving sustainable development in these countries also receive much attention. Advanced courses in the program that link environmental issues to the social, economic, and political aspects of sustainability include: PSC 312 Environmental Law and Policy (3:3) PSC 313 Natural Resources Law and Policy (3:3) SOC 370: Environmental Sociology SOC 202: Social Problems in Global Context EC0 380: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics ATY 450: Anthropology in the Environment HIS 334: United State Environmental History HEA 316: Environmental Health