Energy and Sustainability Initiative
Energy and Sustainability Minor (Interdisciplinary - Open to All Majors on Campus – Effective Fall 2013)
The Energy and Sustainability minor is designed to provide both business and non-business majors with an interdisciplinary approach to broad issues regarding energy and sustainability, with a common introductory course and capstone course. Topics would include existing, transitional, and alternative energy resources; conservation and consumption; and energy and sustainability from the perspectives of economics and business, architecture and design, public policy, and education.
Requirements to Declare: A 2.5 cumulative GPA on 15 or more hours at UH is the requirement to declare the Energy and Sustainability minor.
GPA Requirements: A 2.0 or higher cumulative GPA in all courses attempted for the minor are required for graduation. All attempted courses from the courses listed below are used toward the calculation.
Minor Course and Residency Requirements: The Energy and Sustainability minor consists of 18 hours, 9 hours of which must be advanced, and 6 of the 9 advanced hours must be in residence.
Required courses:
1) 3 hours of ENRG 3310 Introduction to Energy and Sustainability (Fall 2013 #24778)
2) 12 hours selected from the following, with no more than 6 hours from any one area:
- ARCH 3367 Sustainable Architecture (Prerequisite: junior standing) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- ARCH 3368 Sustainable Development (Prerequisite: junior standing) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- ARCH 3397 Green Building
- ARCH 3397 Landscape / Ecology / Urbanization
- BIOL 3359 Environmental Biology of Texas (Prerequisites: BIOL 1361 and 1362) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- BIOL 4368 Ecology (Prerequisites: BIOL 1361 and 1362) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- CIVE 3331 Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 4333 Waste & Water Treatment
- ECON 3385 Economics of Energy (Prerequisite: ECON 2304 or 3332 or consent of instructor) (Fall 2013 #17400)
- ELET 4394 Principle and Application of Fuel Cells
- ENGL 3396 Selected Topics: Writing Eco-City: Focus Houston) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- ENRG 4397 Selected Topics in Energy and Sustainability (may be repeated when topics vary) (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- ENRG 4398 Independent Study in Energy and Sustainability (may be arranged with an instructor any semester)
- GEOL 1302 Introduction to Climate Change
- GEOL 3333 Earth Resources (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- GEOL 3342 Introduction to Air Pollution (not offered in Summer or Fall 2013)
- GEOL 1102 Introduction to Climate Change (lab)
- GEOL 4329 Biogeochemistry
- HIST 3378 The Modern Middle East (Fall 2013 #12870)
- HIST 3394 Special Topics in U.S. History: Energy in Modern America (Fall 2013 #22895)
- HIST 4318: Africa and the Oil Industry
- HIST 4322 Environment in U.S. History
- HIST 4386 Africa 1945 to Present (Fall 2013 #22467)
- HIST 3378 Modern Middle East
- HRMA 4397 Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry
- PETR 1100 Introduction to Petroleum Engineering (1 hour)
- POLS 3326 Government-Politics in the Middle East (Prerequisites: POLS 1336 and 1337) (Fall 2013 #13248)
- POLS 4349 International Energy Politics
- POLS 4363 Science, Technology, and Public Policy
- TECH 1325 Energy for Society (Fall 2013 #20964)
- TECH 4310 (FUTR 4310) Future of Energy and the Environment (Fall 2013 #18365)
- Other courses relating to energy and/or sustainability approved by the program manager.
3) 3 hours of ENRG 4320 Case Studies in Energy and Sustainability.
Energy & Sustainability Minor Faculty
- Wolfthal, Leah, Office of Sustainability
- Pratt, Joseph A, History & Business
- Radhakrishnan, Suryanarayanan, Business
- Miljanic, Ognjen, Chemistry
- Bishop, Peter C, Future Studies, Technology
- Chellam, Shankar, Environmental Engineering
- Carlton, Amelie Benear, Energy Economics, Business
- Lefer, Barry, Atmospheric Science
- Taylor, Rives, Architecture
- Bose, Anima B, Technology
- Kennedy, Ryan P, Political Science
- Spezio, Teresa, History
