Minor in Green Technologies

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 towards 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 (20 credits)

Required Courses (8 credits)

• 11:573:231 3 Fundamentals of Environmental Planning (3) or
• 11:550:233 Environmental Design Analysis (3)
• 11:550:241 5 Construction I – Mapping and Engineering (5)

12 credits of the following electives

Sustainable Land Management (must take at least 3 credits from this category)

• 11:573:202 3 Environmental Issues (3)
• 11:573:445 3 Ecological Design & Stewardship (3)
• 11:573:444 3 Watershed Management: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (3)
• 11:573:413 3 Open Spaces Planning and Management (3)
• 11:216:217 3 Principles of Natural Resource Management (3)
• 10:762/832/971:202 3 Designing Healthy Cities (3)
• 11:550:221 3 Site Design (3)
• 1:550:333 5 Design Build Studio (5)
• 10:762/971:201 3 Introduction to Urban Planning and Design
• 11:550:443 5 Studio Abroad Germany Studio (5)
• 11:704:421 3 Wetland Ecology

Landscape Industries

• 11:550:332 5 Praxis EC and design build
• 11:550:341 4 Construction II Materials & Engineering I (4)
• 11:550:442 3 Sustainable Technology (3)
• Prerequisite: 11:550:341 Construction II Materials & Engineering I

Urban Forestry

• 11:216:403 3 Urban Forestry (3)
• 11:216:456 3 Trees and the Environment (3)
• 11:704:365 4 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 3 Transforming Suburbia: Residential Design in the Age of Sustainability (3)
• 11:550:340 3 Planting Design (4)
• 10:762/832/971:202 3 Designing Healthy Cities (3)
• 11:776:112 3 Introduction to Bioenergy Technologies (3)

Economics of Sustainability

• 11:373:202 3 Sustainability Decision Tools (3)
• 11:373:362 3 Natural resource Economics