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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course explores food, farm, and environment through readings, films, lectures, demonstrations, field trips, and on-farm and kitchen experiences in research and production problems. Activities include presentations on specific topics, group discussions, hands-on lab and field activities, individual and group presentations, field trips, and reflection through writing, video, and photography.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce traditional biological concepts from molecules to organisms within an integrative and applied framework. Students will learn the interdisciplinary nature and common approaches of biology through applied topics relevant to sustainability such as human and ecological health, freshwater and marine fisheries, energy sources, and climate dynamics.
Corequisite:
SUS201L
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory exercises including data collection, small-scale experimentation, data modeling, and simulation will be experienced to complement the material covered in SUS 201. Two hours of laboratory will be held per week at the Eden Hall Campus aquatic science lab. Co-requisite or Prerequisite(s): SUS 201. Additional Fee(s): Laboratory fees = S50.
Corequisite:
SUS201
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3.00 Credits
The earth is a dynamic, evolving system. This course provides an introduction to earth's formation, its materials composition and distribution, and the processes of the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere that interact to shape surface and subsurface features and conditions. The complex adaptive systems framework will be applied.
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3.00 Credits
To be determined
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses opportunities and challenges for using technology for sustainability. We will discuss innovation for sustainability and societal adoption, and will explore ways to use renewable energy and other technologies for homes and workplaces, the internet of Things, closed loops and new materials, sustainable transportation, and smart water systems.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The climate system of Earth is rapidly changing due to complex and interacting phenomena. This course offers an in-depth investigation of the science behind climate change, including a survey of model forecasts. Emphasis will also include the current and projected consequences of climate change on natural resources.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on social justice and sustainability. We examine environmental risks and benefits as they are unequally distributed in society. We look especially at environmental problems in relation to social constructs such as gender, race, ethnicity, and class. We will also focus on solutions and responses to these problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers "culture" and "environment" and how these concepts both help and hinder efforts towards a sustainable and healthy world. Topics include: socio-cultural ways of knowing and reasoning, human adaptation, engagements with food, animals and places, and why race, class, and gender are critical to conversations about sustainability.
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