Sustainability Studies Cluster Courses are offered each semester.
The following Cluster Courses will be offered Spring 2026.
IDS4930: Sustainability and Technology is a new class that explores the relationship between sustainability and technology, focusing on the challenges and opportunities presented by technologies (e.g., industrial machinery, artificial intelligence, geoengineering) across social, economic, and environmental domains. Applicable to Sustainability Studies cluster requirements: A, B, or C. The Spring syllabus can be found here.
Cluster A - Spring
Ethics, Culture and Human Behavior
| Course Number | Course Name |
| AEB 4126 | Agricultural and Natural Resource Ethics (Gen Ed Humanities or Social and Behavioral Sciences) |
| ANT 4403 | Environment and Cultural Behavior (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences) |
| ENV 3930 | Environmental Engineering Ethics |
| FNR 3020 | Professional Practice in Natural Resources |
| GEO 3427 | Plants, Health and Spirituality |
| GEO 3372 | Conservation of Resources |
| PHI 3633 | Bioethics |
| PUR 4442 | Public Interest Communications |
| PUR 4443 | Global Social Change Communication |
| SYD 3395 | Sociology of Globalization |
| SYO 4530 | Social Inequality (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences and Diversity) |
| WST 3415 | Transnational Feminism |
| IDS 4930 | Sustainability and Technology |
Cluster B - Spring
Economics, Law and Policy
| Course Number | Course Name |
| AEB 2451 | Economics of Resource Use (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences) |
| AEB 3450 | Introduction to Natural Resource and Environmental Economics |
| AEB 4123 | Agricultural and Natural Resource Law |
| AEB 4282 | International Humanitarian Assistance (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences and International) |
| AEB 4283 | International Development Policy (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences) |
| FYC 4408 | Organizational Leadership for Nonprofits |
| FYC 4409 | Working with Nonprofit Organizations in Community Settings |
| FYC 4410 | Fund Raising for Community Nonprofit Organizations |
| GEO 2500 | Global and Regional Economies (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences) |
| IDS 4930 | Sustainability and Technology |
Cluster C - Spring
Production Systems and the Built Environment
| Course Number | Course Name |
| AOM 4461 | Sustainable Agricultural Systems |
| AGR 4212 | Alternative Cropping Systems |
| ALS 3133 | Agricultural and Environmental Quality (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| ALS 3153 | Agricultural Ecology |
| BCN 1582 | International Sustainable Development (Gen Ed Social and Behavioral Sciences and International) |
| BCN 3730 | Construction, Safety, Health and the Environment |
| BCN 4105 | Sustainable Housing |
| DCP 3200 | Methods of Inquiry for Sustainability and the Built Environment |
| DCP 3210 | Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment |
| EES 4050 | Environmental Planning and Design |
| FAS 2024 | Sustainable Fisheries (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| GEO 2006 | Natural Hazards Geography |
| GEO 2230 | Living with Rising Seas |
| GIS 4324 | GIS Analysis of Hazard Vulnerability |
| IND 3627 | Sustainable Interior Environments |
| SWS 3022 | Introduction to Soils in the Environment (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| SWS 4207 | Sustainable Agricultural and Urban Land Management |
| SWS 4245 | Water Resource Sustainability |
| SWS 4550 | Soils, Water and Public Health |
| URP 4000 | Preview of Urban and Regional Planning (Gen Ed Humanities) |
| URP 4640 | Sustainable Urbanism in Europe |
| IDS 4930 | Sustainability and Technology |
Cluster D - Spring
Ecology and Environmental Stewardship
| Course Number | Course Name |
| BOT 2800C | Plants in Human Affairs (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| BSC 2005 | Biological Sciences (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| BSC 2011 | Integrated Principles of Biology 2 (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| BSC 4055 | Climate Change and Human Systems |
| EVR 2001 | Introduction to Environmental Science |
| ENV 4041C | Environmental Analysis |
| EVS 3000 | Environmental Science 1 |
| GEO 2006 | Natural Hazards Geography |
| GEO 2200 | Dynamic Planet Earth (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| GEO 2242 | Extreme Weather |
| GEO 3250 | Climatology (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| GEO 3334 | Managing for a Changing Climate |
| GEO 3341 | Extreme Floods (Gen Ed Physical Sciences and International) |
| GEO 3352 | The Human Footprint on Landscape |
| GLY 2010C | Physical Geology (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| GLY 3083C | Fundamentals of Marine Sciences (Gen Ed Physical Sciences) |
| PCB 3601C | Plant Ecology |
| SWS 2008 | Land and Life (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| SWS 4223 | Environmental Biogeochemistry |
| WIS 2040 | Wildlife Issues in a Changing World (Gen Ed Biological Sciences) |
| WIS 2552 | Biodiversity Conservation: Global Perspectives (Gen Ed Biological Sciences and International) |
| WIS 3401 | Wildlife Ecology and Management |
| WIS 3402 | Wildlife of Florida |
| WIS 3410 | The Ecology of Climate Change |
| WIS 4501 | Introduction to Wildlife Population Ecology |
| WIS 4934 | Topics in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation |
| ZOO 4405 | Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation |