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2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Sample Schedule: Sustainability Studies, BA (124 Semester Hours)


FIRST-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

WSC 001 - Composition  

3

WSC 002 - Composition  

3

SBLY 001 - (IS) Our Sustainable World  

3

SBLY 002 - (IS) Sustainability Planning and Policy  

3

Students must select one of the following: Appreciation and Analysis (AA)

or Creative Participation (CP) Distribution Course  

3

Literature (LT) Distribution Course  

3

Foreign Language Course

3

Foreign Language Course

3

Math (MA) Distribution Course  

3

Behavioral Social Sciences (BH) Distribution Course  

3

Total Semester Hours

15

Total Semester Hours

15



SECOND-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

GEOL 005 - (NS) Environmental Geology  

3

Advanced SBLY Elective

3                                    

History, Philosophy, Religion (HP) Distribution Course  

3

Students must select one of the following: Literature (LT)

or Appreciation and Analysis (AA) Distribution Course  

3

Foreign Language Course

3

Students must select one of the following: Behavioral Social Sciences (BH)

or History, Philosophy, Religion (HP) Distribution Course  

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

4

Liberal Arts Elective Course

4

Total Semester Hours

16

Total Semester Hours

16


 

THIRD-YEAR 
Study Abroad Fall/Spring semester or an entire academic year; not restricted to Junior Year.**

Click here for more information on Study Abroad Options.

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

Degree Elective Course

3

Degree Elective Course

3

Cross-Cultural (CC) Distribution Course  

3

SBLY 180 - Sustainability Internship  

3

Writing Intensive (WI) Course

3

Students must select one of the following: Natural Science (NS)

or Math (MA) or Computer Science (CS) Distribution Course  

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Writing Intensive (WI) Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

4

Liberal Arts Elective Course

4

Total Semester Hours

16

Total Semester Hours

16


 

FOURTH-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

SBLY 105 - Seminar on Sustainability  

3

SBLY 110 - Sustainability Studio  

3

Degree Elective Course

3

Degree Elective Course

3

Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Total Semester Hours

15

Total Semester Hours

15

Program Total

124

 

Updated October 2022

NOTES
Foreign language must be taken up to completion of level 3 or placement above.

Some Degree Requirement courses (AP/IB/Transfer) taken prior to Hofstra can count toward the major. Degree Requirement courses taken prior to your first year can count toward general education requirements or elective credits, whether taken at Hofstra or transferred in. 

You are not required to take Summer or January courses (for which there is no financial aid). You can complete your degree of 124 credits with 5 3-credit courses every semester provided you take an additional 4 credits during your time at Hofstra or transfer in AP or other pre-college credits. Note that you can take up to 17 credits per semester without paying additional tuition. Some courses such as math, physics, and chemistry are 4 credit courses.  Also, you may consider taking the 3 credit January Session study abroad program in the Galàpagos Islands and Ecuador (additional tuition and program fees) or doing additional internship or independent research projects.

We encourage SUSTAINABILITY students to participate in internships, independent research, study abroad, or other forms of experiential learning by requiring all students to complete an internship and an independent study project as part of their degree coursework. 

Students who wish to stay at Hofstra and earn a MASTERS DEGREE in SUSTAINABILITY may elect to enter the 5-year program.  Students begin taking graduate courses during their senior undergraduate year and complete their MA degree after one additional year of graduate study.

*In addition to going on study abroad for either semester in their third year, students can go for the entire academic year in their third year, for a semester in their second or fourth years, or for a short-term program in the summer or during the January break.