34 Environmental Sustainability Course Programs

Learn about the basic necessities of life, environmental sustainability, and sustainable and non-sustainable materials.

AGROECOLOGY 26 intends to introduce students to the complex and multifaceted world of agroecology through a transdisciplinary approach, enabling them to acquire basic knowledge and awareness of the importance of the interactions between agro-environmental and socio-economic components as the foundation of the dynamics of transformation of agro-food systems towards true sustainability, and to understand how and why the agro-ecological approach can provide concrete solutions to the great challenges of our time.

Goucher’s Environmental Studies Program is designed to encourage thinking across disciplinary boundaries in order to prepare students for meaningful engagement with central environmental questions and challenges facing current and future generations. The program offers students the opportunity to major or minor in a curriculum that bridges social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. After completing a series of core courses in various disciplines, environmental studies majors must choose either the environment and society concentration or the environmental science concentration to complete remaining coursework.

Wabash College’s Environmental Studies minor provides students with an opportunity to apply a liberal arts perspective to environmental issues and questions of sustainability, linking traditional scientific study of the environment to the role the environment plays in human experience and society. Human society relies on a healthy, functioning global ecosystem for its survival, but human activities often damage the environment and undermine its capacity to support us. While such environmental degradation has occurred throughout human history, environmental issues have increasingly moved to the forefront of public discourse, even to the point of being considered the greatest existential threat to humanity. Addressing issues of biodiversity and ecological resiliency in our curriculum is an essential aspect of our stated mission to educate responsible, humane leaders. Students minoring in Environmental Studies are expected to help catalyze more environmental interest and action on campus, supporting a transformation to a renewable, more sustainable, Wabash College.

The Environmental Studies department is dedicated to training the next generation of environmental scholars, activists, and educators for the world that they will inherit. Now and over the coming decades, human societies face daunting environmental challenges. We must find rational, holistic and ethically grounded ways to combat these issues. In collaboration with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, students can pursue a major or minor in Environmental Studies. Environmental Studies students apply critical thinking and analytical skills within a holistic systems framework that includes social justice as an essential component.

The environmental studies major will provide you with an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of environmental issues and includes courses from the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. By developing a broad foundation of knowledge and integrative thinking skills, you will graduate with the intellectual tools and breadth of understanding to confront environmental challenges of the present and future. You are also encouraged to explore independent and summer research possibilities and utilize the many resources provided by the Miller Worley Center for the Environment.

For nearly fifty years, Macalester has had a dedicated and deeply interdisciplinary focus on Environmental Studies. We use case studies, problem-solving, and a community-centered approach to address environmental problems at the local, national and global levels.

The Agribusiness Management Program aims to train professionals for decision-making and to provide business rethinking tools.

In WAT-CHANGE - Water-Related Ecosystem Services for Adapting Societies to Climate Change Seasonal School aims at introducing the participants to the new growing area of solutions provided by water-related ecosystem services. In particular, we will deal with nature-based solutions for water supply, treatment of polluted water, and flood risk mitigation such as managed aquifer recharge, river restoration, constructed wetlands, sustainable drainage systems, and remediation of contaminated sites using phytoremediation techniques.

This course has been designed to equip the next generation of critical thinkers to consider the world’s increasingly complex water challenges. This course will challenge participants to consider water in new ways, develop the tools to do so, and equip them with the skills to apply their learnings in different contexts.

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the interconnection between humans and the natural environment. Modern environmental issues reflect the complex interactions of natural and social systems at global and local scales, and the resulting impacts on the Earth have led many to ask whether humankind has entered into a new epoch in the planet’s history, one in which humans are now a key driver in the change of Earth systems.

Courses in Environment and Sustainability at Sewanee, you'll be prepared to address complex environmental issues from a variety of perspectives. Your understanding today will prepare you to protect tomorrow. Because all environmental systems are connected, environmental issues cannot be studied in isolation. Policy, science, and economics are all involved.

The Environmental Studies specification enables students to gain an insight into the environment and the scientific processes that control and affect it.

Our students and professors are active locally, nationally, and internationally helping to address the world’s environmental challenges. Through extensive project-based learning and field-research opportunities—beginning in the first-year introductory course—students gain an understanding of climate change, biodiversity loss, natural-resource use, and the relationships between humans and nature.

The huge volume of hydrocarbons transported through pipelines and by ships poses a continuous risk to the environment due to accidental spills. Understanding the processes determining oil trajectory and fate, and learning oil spill simulation tools, allows environmental professionals to design better response plans, and help with mitigating future events.