FER MINOR REQUIREMENTS
The Future Earth Resilience minor is designed to help you discover your area of interest, explore a well-rounded curriculum, and make an impact through a culminating project.
Discover your passion.
Connect with new disciplines and ways of thinking.
Make an impact with your final project.
FER COURSE STRUCTURE (18 UNITS)
All courses are 3 units and they must be for Honors credit (i.e., via the Honors section or Honors contract).
A minimum of 12 upper division units is required for the minor.
Multiple Use of Courses: students use 6 units, or 2 courses, for multiple requirements. Courses may be taken for other major or minor degree fulfillment.
Substitutions allowed with Program Director approval (Caitlyn Hall, cahall@arizona.edu), including XXX 493 Internship, XXX Practicum, and XXX 499 Independent Study courses.
Required Introductory course
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HNRS 150C1: Knowledge Power Nature
Required Capstone Course
(to be taken after completing 9 units of electives, can be taken concurrently with your final elective)
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HNRS 498F: Capstone (will need Departmental Consent)
Choose a minimum of 3 units from this exploration question area:
AIS/ANTH/ENVS/GEOG/RAM/WFSC/WSM 431A: Traditional Ecological Knowledge
ANTH 307: Ecological Anthropology
ATMO 336: Weather, Climate and Society
ATMO 436A: Fundamentals of the Atmospheric Sciences
ECOL 206: Environmental Biology
ECOL 480: Mathematical Models in Biology
ENVS 270: Critical Zone Science
GEOG 240: Our Dynamic Landscape
GEOG 338: Biogeography
GEOG/PLG/EVS/HWR/HWRS/LAS/PLAN/PLN/PLNG/PLNN/WRA 461: Environmental and Resource Geography
GEOS 212: Introduction to Oceanography
HNRS 170 A1: Sensing Our Environment
HNRS 219: Our Human Footprint
HWRS 350: Principles of Hydrology
RNR 388: Biosphere 2 Science, From Wonder to Discovery
RNR 458: Ecosystem Ecology and a Sustainable Future
RNR/GEOG/GIST/SW/SWES 417: Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences
Choose a minimum of 3 units from this exploration question area:
AIS 426A: Principles of Indigenous Economics
ARC 461A: Water Efficiency in Buildings
BE 482: Integrated Engineered Solutions in the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
CHEE 204: Water and Energy: Conventional and Alternative Systems
EHS 425: A Public Health Lens to Climate Change
EHS 489: Public Health Preparedness
ENGR/ENTR 420R: Innovation Principles and Environments
ENVS/LAR/PLG 450: Green Infrastructure
GEOG 230: Our Dynamic Climate
GEOG/EVS 302: Introduction to Sustainable Development
GEOG/EVS 304: Water, Environment, and Society
GEOG/EVS 363: Climate Change: Human Causes, Social Consequences, and Sustainable Responses
GEOG/EVS 368: The Green Economy
PA 482: Environmental Governance
PLG 473: Transportation & Society
RNR 340: Conservation and Agriculture in the Southwest
RNR 440: Climate Change Adaptation: Perspectives at the Nexus of Science, Society, & Resource Management
RNR/LAR 448: Conservation Planning & Wildland Recreation
RNR/PA 485: The Economics & Social Connections to Natural Resources
SIE 466: Life Cycle Analysis for Sustainable Design and Engineering
Choose a minimum of 3 units from this exploration question areas:
AIS/ANTH/ARL/ENVS/RAM/ RNR/SWES/WSFC/WSM 441A: Natural Resource Management in Native Communities
ANTH 438: Women's Health in Global Perspective
EHS 426: Topics in Environmental Justice
ENVS 310: Ecosystem Health and Justice
GEOG/AICS/EVS 374: Geography, Social Justice and the Environment
GEOG/PLAN/PLG/PLN/PLNN/PLNG 379: Urban Growth and Development
HNRS 314: Ideas into Action: An Introduction to Civic Engagement
HWRS 203: Arizona Water Issues
HWRS 443A: Risk Assessment for Environmental Systems
NAFS 365: The Food Economy - Efficiencies, Gaps and Policies
PHIL/PA 323: Environmental Ethics
PLG 408: Climate Action Planning
PLG/GEOG/PLN/PLNN 497S: Sustainable Urban Development and Design
RELI 360: Religion, Nature, and Climate Change
RELI 407: Religion, Spirituality, and the Sacred in Native North America
SOC/CHS 350: Environment, Health, and Society
SOC/CHS 405: Disasters, Health & Society
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