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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Climate Solutions

Director: Sara Hamideh
Email: sara.hamideh@stonybrook.edu
Undergraduate Advisor: Nancy Black
Phone: (631) 632-9404
Office: E2361 Melville Library
Website: https://www.stonybrook.edu/somas/

The Climate Solutions Minor is intended to provide a coherent foundational knowledge about climate change and skills to work on mitigation and adaptation solutions. This new knowledge and these skills will deepen and strengthen students’ major education by offering a transdisciplinary understanding of the forces that have created the climate crisis, possible solutions offered by various fields, and the socio-economic and political forces that have made the solutions to this crisis so difficult.

Minor Requirements

At least 12 credits applied to the minor may not be applied to any major or other minor. Of the 6 credits that could be also applied to another major or minor, no more than one course can be from the electives list below. All courses offered for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher. Completion of the minor requires 18 credits.

Required core courses (9 credits):

Elective courses (6 credits)

Select 1 course from each of 2 different paths.

Natural Sciences Path

Engineering Path

Social Sciences and Humanities Path

Capstone (3 credits):

  • Internship (488 course, or similar) or independent research with a faculty mentor (487 course, or similar), which must be approved in advance by the Climate Solutions Minor Director or Steering Committee.