Launched in Fall 2022, the Global Sustainability Leadership Minor is a 17-hour minor open to all undergraduate students at UT Austin. Applications are competitive and cycles begin in the Fall semester for a Spring start, and in the Spring semester for a Fall start.
Sophomores and juniors with at least three semesters left that can fit required coursework into their schedules are eligible to apply.
Apply today to start in the Spring 2026 Minor cohort
Step 1
Applications are due October 3rd, 2025.
Fall 2026 applications open in January and close March 1st.
Step 2
Submit your McCombs General Minor Registration form
Both must be done to be added to the McCombs Minor system.
Step 3
You will receive notification within a month of the application closing. Speak with your advisor in the meantime about how you will fit the Minor coursework into your schedule.
The Global Sustainability Leadership Minor requires 17 hours of coursework. Students must maintain a 2.0 GPA and take all courses on a letter-grade basis. All prerequisite requirements must be fulfilled before registering for any of these courses.
Required Courses
8 hours
- ACC 372T1.2/BGS 372T1.2/FIN 337T1.2: Global Business Sustainability
- ADV 324/PR324: Communicating Sustainability
- FIN 134M: Current Issues in Global Sustainability
- FIN 164P: Practicum
Business Elective
3 hours
Select one of the following:
- BGS 325: Social and Ethical Responsibility of Business
- BGS 370: Behavioral Intervention Man/Policy Makers
- BGS 380: Behavioral Intervention Man/Policy Makers
- BGS 372: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
- BGS 275: Business/Politics in the Age of Inequality
- OM 337: Sustainable Operations
- FIN 372: Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing
- LEB 370: Environmental Law
- LEB 370: Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Business
- MAN 366P: Management Practicum: Social Entrepreneurship I
- MAN 367P: Social Entrepreneurship II
- MAN 369P: Social Innovation Practicum
- ECO 359M: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Communication Elective
3 hours
Choose one of the following:
- ADV 319: Psychology of Advertising
- ADV 323/PR 323: Public Communication of Science and Technology
- ADV 336/PR 336: Multicultural Issues in Advertising and Public Relations
- ADV 378/PR 378: Geo Health Equity and Climate Change
- CLD 340: Communication for Civic Engagement
- COM 308: Creative Communication of Scientific Research
- CMS 340K: Communication and Social Change
- CMS 340M: Social Media and Social Movement: Then and Now
- CMS 362E: Environmental Communication Organizational Transparency
- J305: Reporting on the Environment
Science Elective
3 hours
Choose one of the following:
- EVE 302: Foundations of Environmental Engineering
- EVE 310: Sustainable Systems Engineering
- ES 369N: Sustainability Issues in Engineering
- GEO 302C: Climate: Past, Present, and Future
- GEO 302E: Earth, Wind, and Fire
- GEO 302G: Earth Science and Sustainability
- GEO 302J: Crisis of Our Planet
- GEO 302P: Sustaining a Planet
- GEO 303E: Earth in 2100
- GEO 305E: Energy and the Environment
- GEO 371T: The Science of Environmental Justice
- MNS 307: Introduction to Oceanography
- MNS 308: Humans and a Changing Ocean
- MNS 367: Marine Ecology
Students may apply for the program in their sophomore or junior year, or in the Spring before their sophomore year.
Eligible students must show extracurricular excellence, submit a few short essays, and have at least a 2.0 GPA.
The GSL Minor is interdisciplinary and students from all majors may apply.