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.

Total number of credits: 20

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 (4)

Electives (12 credits of the following electives)

Sustainable Land Management (At least 3 credits from this category)

• 11:573:202 Environmental Issues (3)
• 11:573:445 Ecological Design & 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)
• 10:762/971:201 Introduction to Urban Planning and Design (3)
• 11:704:421 Wetland Ecology (3)

Landscape Industries

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

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 in the 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)
• 11:373:362 Natural Resource Economics (3)