Technology and the Environment Minor
General Description
The increasing prevalence of technology has affected the environment in complex and often unforeseen ways. Society is now demanding that all disciplines of engineering be environmentally aware. Furthermore, those that use and distribute technology need to appreciate its far-ranging impacts. For a more sophisticated understanding of the relationships between technology and the environment, engineers and managers require inter-disciplinary expertise.
The Technology and the Environment (TE) minor addresses these concerns with an interdisciplinary course of studies. A corner stone of the TE minor is basic knowledge of technologies that directly impact environmental systems. This technological foundation will allow students to build a more sophisticated understanding of how technology and the environment are inter-related. According to the interests of a student, courses from the areas of environmental planning and policy, history of the environment and technology, and management may be selected to complete the TE minor. Thus, students from across the university may participate in the Technology and the Environment minor. Students interested in completing the minor should contact the minor coordinator Teresa Culver (TBC4E@VIRGINIA.EDU, 924-6375).
Minor Curriculum
The minor will be composed of six courses. No more than two of these courses may be from a student’s own department. Thus, a student will be required to add breadth to their program through the completion of at least 4-courses outside of their major department.
All students are required to complete at least two courses in the environmental technology area, including one lower-level course (1000- or 2000-level) and at least one higher-level course (3000-level or higher). Each student must then choose an emphasis, by completing three courses, in one of three areas: Environmental Planning and Policy, Technology, the Environment, and Society or Management and Economics. The sixth course may be selected from any of the four areas listed below. A student may petition the minor supervisory committee to include courses not specifically listed below.
Courses
Lower-Level Courses (choose one course)
ARCH 2114 Sustainability and Systems in the Built Environment
CE 2001 Sustainability Science
CE 2100 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
EVSC 1010 Introduction to Environmental Sciences
EVSC 1080 Resources and the Environment
EVSC 1300 Earth's Weather and Climate
EVSC 1450 Climate Change, You, and CO2
EVSC 1600 Water on Earth
EVSC 1762 Water: Understanding our Essential Natural Resource
EVSC 2010/MSE 2010 Materials that Shape Civilizations
EVSC 2200 Plants, People and Culture
STS 2050/GSVS 2050 Introduction to Sustainable Energy Systems
Higher-Level Courses (choose at least one course)
ARCH 3260 Building Matters
CE 3000 Civil Engineering Systems Analysis
CE 3050 Energy Systems and the Environment
CE 3100 Water for the World
CE 3220 Water Resources Engineering
CE 4100 Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineers
CE 4160 Environmental Microbiology for Engineers
CE 5020 Intro to Geographic Info Systems
CE 5240 Ground-Water Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
CHE 4450 Energy Science and Technology
ECE 3250 Electromechanical Energy Conversion
EVSC 3020 GIS Methods
EVSC 4015 Introduction to Remote Sensing
EVSC 4035 Drones in Scientific Research
EVSC 4070 Advanced GIS
EVSC 4080 Quantitative Methods in Environmental Sciences
EVSC 4090 Instrumental Methods for Analysis of Environmental Samples
EVSC 4490 Air Pollution
EVSC 4660 Hydrological Field Methods and Data Analysis
GSVS 3020 Sustainable Design Thinking II
GSVS 4020 Ecosystem Service: How Nature Benefits People
MSE 3080 Corrosion, Batteries, and Fuel Cells
MSE 4055 Nanoscale Science and Technology
PLAC 5820 Environmental Planning and Design
PLAC 5860 Green Infrastructure: Sites
PLAN 5710 Transportation and Environment
Emphasis Areas (choose at least three courses from one of the following areas)
ARCH 2150/GSVS 2150/COMM 3880 Global Sustainability
ETP 4010 Environmental Decisions
GDS 3114 Science, Technology, and Development
GSVS 3110 Sustainable Communities
GSVS 3310 Sustainability Policy at Home & Abroad
LPPP 2200 Introduction to Public Policy
PLAC 5720 Transportation and Land Use
PLAC 5800 Green Infrastructure: Cities
PLAC 5863 Climate Adaptation Planning
PLAN 3060 Land, Law, and the Environment
PLAN 3810 Climate Justice in Cities
PLAN 3840 Ethics of Cities and Environment
PLAN 3860 Cities and Nature
PLAN 5600 Land Use and Growth Management
PLAN 5740 Transportation Planning and Policy
PLAP 3160/GSVS 3160 Politics of Food
PLAP 4800/ETP 4800 Politics of the Environment
STS 2620 Science and Technology Public Policy
STS 2760 Technology and Policy: Where Intent Meets Process
SYS 2620 Engineered Systems Public Policy
ANTH 2260 Water Worlds
ANTH 2285 Anthropology of Development and Humanitarianism
ANTH 3240 Anthropology of Food
ANTH 3340 Ecology and Society
GSGS 2010 Global Commerce in Culture
GSGS 3118 Space, Place and Global Development
GSVS 2210 Religion, Ethics & Global Environments
GSVS 4100 Evidence for (Sustainability) Policy
HIEU 3321 Scientific Revolution
HIUS 2061 American Economic History
HIUS 2071 American Power and Energies
HIUS 3131 Emergence of Modern America
HIUS 3161 Viewing America
HIUS 3411 American Business
PHS 3620 Built Environment & Health Impact
PLAN 3840 Ethics of Cities and Environment
PLAN 3815 Global Environmental Issues
SOC 3460 Future Cities
SOC 3470 Sociology of Development
SOC 3490 Cities and Culture
STS 2500 Science and Technology in Social and Global Context
STS 2760 Technology and Policy
SYS 3023 Human Machine Interface
CE 4110 Environmental Systems Management
CE 5035 Construction Estimating and Bidding
COMM 4251 Inventing the Future
COMM 4821 Managing Sustainable Development
COMM 4822 Invest in Sustainable Future
COMM 5161 Environment, Social, and Governance Accounting
EBUS 2830 Innovation and New Ventures
EBUS 4810 New Product Development
ECON 2010 Microeconomics
ECON 3010 Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON 3110 Mathematical Microeconomics
ECON 3430 Economics of Sustainability and Environment
ECON 4430 Environmental Economics
ENGR 4880 Business and Technical Leadership in Engineering
EVSC 2070 Earth Systems Technology and Management
GSGS 3330 Ecological Economics
STS 2740 Earth Systems Technology and Management
SYS 2001 System Engineering Concepts
SYS 3034 System Evaluation
SYS 3060 Stochastic Decision Models
SYS 4044 Economics of Engineering Systems
SYS 4050/CE 4050 Risk Analysis
The information contained on this website is for informational purposes only. The Undergraduate Record and Graduate Record represent the official repository for academic program requirements. These publications may be found here.
Questions?
Teresa B. Culver
My lifelong love for the outdoors translated directly into the study of environmental and water resource engineering. At UVa, I have the honor of working with a new generation of engineers who will work to create a sustainable future.