1 point:
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Volunteer at a sustainability-related event or with a sustainability organization (up to 3 points total)
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Attend a sustainability conference, workshop, or seminar outside of your class assignments (up to 3 points total)
If you participated in an event, activity, or initiative that is not included in this point system that you believe should be worth points towards your application, please describe that in your request, or email
emalcolm@vwu.edu. Be sure to include information about the activity, and the Campus Sustainability Director will review it for the possibility of being awarded points.
Points earned for “sustainability-focused courses” cannot be combined with points earned for Sustainability Majors or Minors.
*SUSTAINABILITY-FOCUSED MAJORS & MINORS*
- Earth & Environmental Sciences major or minor
- Environmental Studies major or minor
- Sustainability Management major or minor
- Marine Science minor
**SUSTAINABILITY-FOCUSED COURSES**
BIO 150 Introduction to Marine Biology
BIO 316 Ecology
BIO 333 Conservation Biology
BIO 340 Tropical Marine Ecology
BIO 355 Marine Ecology
BIO 375 Topics in Tropical Biology
BIO 475 Natural and Social History of the Chesapeake Bay
CHEM 270 Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 450 Biogeochemistry
EES 133 Environmental Geology with Laboratory
EES 200 Oceanography
EES 210 Meteorology
EES 270 Environmental Chemistry
EES 316 Ecology
EES 320 Energy and the Environment
EES 300 Advanced Topics in Geology: Soil
EES 333 Conservation Biology
EES 340 Climatology
EES 375 Topics in Tropical Biology
EES 410 Physical Hydrology
EES 425 The Age of Oil
EES 450 Biogeochemistry
ENG 303 Eco Science Fiction
ENG 306 Ecopoetry
ENG 410 Environmental Writings
ENVS 106 Humans, the Environment, and Sustainability
ENVS 107 Environmental Biology
ENVS 283 Seminar in Alaska
ENVS 304 Environmental Ethics
ENVS 306 Ecopoetry
ENVS 326 Environmental Policy Analysis
ENVS 410 Environmental Writings
ENVS 420 Topics in Sustainability
HON 110 Complex Global Challenges
MBE 206 Sustainability Accounting
MBE 207 Economics and the Environment
MBE 348 Social Marketing Management
PHIL 304 Environmental Ethics
POLS 326 Environmental Policy Analysis
SRM 344 Outdoor Recreation and Education
SRM 348 Maui Sea to Sky: The Impact of Adventure Travel on Culture and the Environment