Courses

This course provides a foundation for sustainability knowledge and problem solving. It explores the relationships between people and natural systems, examines pressing global challenges, and outlines leadership solutions to wicked challenges. Students gain deeper understanding of the most urgent concerns tied to living out of balance with the systems that sustain life.

INTC 229, T/R 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

This course provides a foundation for sustainability knowledge and problem solving. It explores the relationships between people and natural systems, examines pressing global challenges, and outlines leadership solutions to wicked challenges. Students gain deeper understanding of the most urgent concerns tied to living out of balance with the systems that sustain life.

HUM 107, M/W 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

This course provides a foundation for sustainability knowledge and problem solving. It explores the relationships between people and natural systems, examines pressing global challenges, and outlines leadership solutions to wicked challenges. Students gain deeper understanding of the most urgent concerns tied to living out of balance with the systems that sustain life.

HUM 109, T/R 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

No course description available because of special topics categorization.

HUM 113, M/W 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Introduces students to the moral issues and ethical approaches that characterize interaction with our natural environment. Topics will vary but will typically include issues such as our moral obligation to nonhuman species and to future human generations, and ethical analysis of contemporary environmental issues such as climate change and species extinction.

HUM 213, M/W 10:30 pam - 11:45 am

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HUM 213, M/W 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Examines legal aspects, both regulations and case law, of environmental policy. Central issues are whether legal responses (1) effectively address the needs of the parties most affected; (2) properly weigh such facts as economic efficiency, protection of nonhuman species, and the possibility of unintended consequences; and (3) are diluted by the political process. (Same as Environmental Studies 362.)

WSTN 204, T/R 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Prerequisites: PLSC 260 or ENVR 201

 Introduction to our earth as home to people and place through geographic approaches that analyze cultural, societal, economic, political, and environmental change. Topics include: human dimensions of climate change; sustainability; spatial analysis techniques and theories; population distributions and migration; cultural geographies; global economic development and its distribution; urbanization; political geography; and human-environment relations. (Same as Global Studies 210.)

INTC 342, W/F 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

No course description available because of special topics categorization.

INTC 342, T 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

No course description available because of special topics categorization.

HUM 207, T 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Development and application of economic principles to understand and evaluate causes and solutions to environmental problems such as pollution and conservation. Topics include economics of biodiversity protection, climate change, natural resource damage assessment, measurement of environmental values, and alternative strategies for pollution control. Same as Environmental Studies 230.

BUS Q156, T/R 10:30 am - 11:45 am

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BUS Q156, T/R 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Prerequisites: ECON 101

Study of various challenges being faced by today’s organizations created by heightened concern for the protection of our natural environment. Topics studied include such issues as air and water pollution, waste management, and global warming.

BUS Q156, M/W 9:00 am - 10:15 am

Prerequisites: ECON 101

ENVR 199 Introduction to Biological Thinking: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology with Lab, CRN: 21062/22627, Instructor: Emily Boone (Environmental Sustainability)

An introduction to how biologists pose questions, design experiments, analyze data, evaluate evidence, and communicate scientific information. Individual sections will have different topics and formats, but all sections will involve intensive student-directed investigation and include a laboratory component. Required for prospective biology majors. Three lecture and three laboratory hours per week.

GOTW A101, M/W 9:00 pm - 10:15 pm and W 1:30 pm - 4:20 pm

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GOTW A101, M/W 10:30 am - 11:45 am and T 1:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Overview of contemporary environmental issues, including species extinction, resource depletion, and pollution. Students examine behavior leading to environmental degradation, the scientific, ethical, and economic aspects of the resulting problems, and study policies intended to provide solutions.

GOTW A100, T/R 9:00 pm - 10:15 pm

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GOTW A100 T/R 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

Basic concepts of earth systems science and physical geography. Topics include: introduction to mapping, GIS and remote sensing; weather and climate; drought, floods, and environmental hydrology; earthquakes, volcanos, landforms and geomorphology; and the interactions of all of the above with humans and the earths biota. Climate change and the spatial inequalities in environmental pollution and resources are emphasized. (Same as Environmental Studies 250.)

INTC 228 M/W 9:00 am - 10:15 am and lab HUM 207 F 9:00 am - 11:40 am

Applies geography’s human-environment tradition to examine environmental, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainability and sustainable development. Examinations into foundations and theories behind the concept of sustainable development, discussions and debates about its real-world applicability, and explorations into case studies addressing relationships and contradictions between human desires for material well-being, environmental protection, and maintenance of cultural and/or social traditions. Should be taken as culmination of the Sustainability minor.

HUM 245, M/W 10:30 am - 11:45 am

Prerequisites: GEOG 210, ENVR 201, GEOG 201, GS 210, or GS 290