Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

Students must demonstrate knowledge of scientific, policy, social, cultural, and/or historical dimensions of human relationship to the environment.  Specifically, students must be able to (1) evaluate environmental sustainability issues, (2) determine how personal and collective decisions and actions affect the environment, and (3) formulate or evaluate potential solutions to environmental sustainability problems.

This requirement can be met by either (a) taking and passing a designated course across the curriculum that satisfies this requirement (see list below) or (b) completing before their senior year a credit or non-credit experience (interdependent project or internship) that includes a work minimum equivalent to six hours per week over 15 weeks or equivalent time during summer or J-term sessions.  Prior to initiating this experience, students must submit a proposal to a faculty sponsor no later than two semesters before their expected graduation date. This proposal must describe the type of experience, provide an explanation of how the components of this experience would permit a student to meet each of the three learning goals, include potential curricular and/or co-curricular resources that would help the students meet these goals, and provide a reporting mechanism associated with the experience that would allow the student and the faculty mentor assess whether the culmination of the experience was sufficient to meet each of the learning goals of this requirement.

• ARH 362 - Nature into Art: The Cultural Dimensions of Landscape (4 Cr.)
• BIO 240 - Ecology and Evolution (4 Cr.)
• BUS 141 - Managing Sustainability (4 Cr.)
• CHE 370 - Environmental and Green Chemistry w/Lab (4 Cr.)
• COM 323 - Media and the Environment (4 Cr.)
• CPEA 211 - To Walk with Nature: Environment and the Artist (4 Cr.)
• CPEB 203 - Green Gentrification and the Right to the City (4 Cr.)
• CPEC 258 - This is Human, That is Nature: How Radically Rethinking the Human-Nature Relationship Can Help US Solve the Climate Crisis (4 Cr.)
• CPED 201 - Thirsty for Change? A Hands-on, Immersive Class on Local Water Quality (4 Cr.)
• CPED 204 - What the frack? An Exploration of Environmental Chemistry (4 Cr.)
• DMC 102 - Data Analytics for Sustainability (4 Cr.)
• EC 225 - Environmental Economics (2 Cr.)
• ES 100 - Introduction to Environmental Sciences (4 Cr.)
• ES 105 - Environmental Sustainability in Context (2 Cr.)
• ES 130G - Intermediate Reading in Spanish: Environmental Studies (4 Cr.)
• ES 140 - Introduction to Environmental Studies (4 Cr.)
• ES 207 - Environmental Ethics (4 Cr.)
• ES 215 - Political Ecology of Extractive Industries (4 Cr.)
• ES 238 - Ecology (4 Cr.)
• ES 242 - Gender and Environment (4 Cr.)
• ES 245 - Psychology of Environmental Problems (4 Cr.)
• ES 415 - Climate Change (4 Cr.)
• FR 444 - Transnational Environmental Studies in French (4 Cr.)
• FYS 100E - First Year Seminar - Environmental Sustainability (4 Cr.)
• PHL 205 - Environmental Ethics (4 Cr.)
• PSY 245 - Environmental Psychology (4 Cr.)
• SOA 391 - Seminar: Environmental Sociology (4 Cr.)
• VMC 110 - Preserving our Heritage (4 Cr.)
• VMC 362 - Nature into Art: The Cultural Dimensions of Landscape (4 Cr.)
• WGS 242 - Women and Environmental Justice (4 Cr.)