School of Engineering and Applied Science: Minor Programs
For a more sophisticated understanding of the relationships between technology and the environment, engineers and managers require inter-disciplinary expertise. The Technology and Environment minor (TE) allows students throughout the University to create a minor that combines basic knowledge of technologies that directly impact environmental systems with one of the followings emphasis areas: environmental planning and policy; technology, the environmental, and society: or management and economics. The minor will be composed of six courses. No more than two of these courses may be from a student’s own department, requiring a student 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 environmental technology from an approved list, including one lower-level course (1000- or 2000-level) and at least one higher-level course (3000-level or higher). Each student must also complete three courses from their selected emphasis area. The sixth course may be selected from any of the emphasis area lists or from the upper-level environmental technology course. Approved lists of courses in each category can be found at https://engineering.virginia.edu/departments/civil-and-environmental-engineering/academics/undergraduate-degree/technology-and. Students interested in completing the minor may also contact the minor coordinator Teresa Culver (tbc4e@virginia.edu).
