Millersville University’s Sustainability Studies provides students with knowledge, skills, and ways of thinking needed to promote economic and social well-being while protecting the integrity of earth’s living systems. Sustainability Studies is an interdisciplinary field, engaging sustainable development, environmental studies, public and environmental policy, city and regional planning, economics, social well-being, and global and local understanding. Spatial tools and skills enhance advanced issue analysis. The program is well-balanced between the integral social, policy, environmental, global, economic, and communication components of sustainability. Graduates of this program have the foundation for further academic study in disciplines addressing geographic and sustainability issues, or for immediate employment in the public or private sectors in sustainability and environmental management.
Sustainability Studies is a concentration in the B.A. program in Geography. 42 credits and a minor program of study required.
