The University of Minnesota, Morris has had an extremely green campus for years. It gets up to 60% of its power from wind turbines like the one at left. Now it has a major to match.
Last week the university, which is based in the west/central part of the state and is one of five campuses of the University of Minnesota, announced that it will have a full-fledged environmental studies major come fall. The interdisciplinary program builds on an earlier ES concentration with courses such as "Environmental Problems and Policy", "Environmental Biology" and an English class called "The Environmental Imagination". There will be internship and research opportunities with soil and wildlife conservation agencies, and the university says it will add a faculty expert in fisheries management and environmental policy and ethics next fall.
UMM is continuing to green its campus too. It will open a sustainable dorm, dubbed the Green Prairie Community, in the fall of 2009, and it is scheduled to be energy self-sufficient through onsite renewable generation by 2010.
Image credit: University of Minnesota, Morris
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