The SCED minor provides students with the multidisciplinary planning, design, and analysis skills necessary to address the diverse environmental challenges facing communities around the globe today. Students can choose to specialize in one of three areas of focus, tailored around critical aspects of planning and designing sustainable, socially just, and resilient communities, where they will acquire the tools required to actively contribute to solving environmental crises. The multidisciplinary coursework under this degree offers students the chance to engage with many different disciplines, such as architectural design, engineering, urban planning, and public policy, building their understanding of how to address fundamentally interdisciplinary problems and positioning them to be transformative agents in a rapidly changing world. This minor can complement any undergraduate degree from across campus, providing UTA graduates with a competitive edge when entering a workforce compelled to engage with environmental dilemmas. With 18 credit hours (21 with an additional optional class in the “analyze and apply skills” component), the minor can be combined with most majors and, in some cases, already completed coursework will qualify for credit. No matter what field you are in, the SCED Minor will equip you with the applied design, socio-economic, and technical tools necessary to holistically deal with some of the most complex and challenging problems of the 21st century. The 18 credit hours SCED minor differs from most minors in two important respects. First, it is highly interdisciplinary and comprises courses in diverse fields. Second, courses often simultaneously satisfy requirements in a student's major field of study. Together, these differences provide considerable flexibility to construct degree plans while not significantly increasing the overall hours required for undergraduate degrees Grades of "C" or better required for all minor courses.
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List tentative classes of interest from approved course list. At least 6 hours must be taken from 3000 and 4000 level courses. Grades of "C" or better required for all minor courses.