Minor in Green Technology (20 credits)

Green Technology Minor: 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 toward 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 Graduation Requirements (20 credits)

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 (5)

Plus 3 credits of the following:
11:573:202  Environmental Issues (3)
11:573:445  Ecological Design and 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)
11:550:333  Design Build Studio (5)
10:762/971:201  Introduction to Urban Planning and Design (3)
11:550:443  Studio Abroad Germany Studio (5)
11:704:421  Wetland Ecology (3)

Plus 12 credits of the following:

Landscape Industries    
11:550:331  Praxis EC and Design Build (5)
11:550:341  Construction II Materials and Engineering I (4)
11:550:442  Sustainable Technology (3)
                          Prerequisite: 11:550:341 Construction II  - Materials and Engineering I

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, 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)