Sustainability

Sustainability

Curriculum

This page is currently underdevelopment.

There is currently no formal undergraduate or graduate Sustainability major or minor at WMU. The Environmental Studies Program (ENVS) has the most comprehensive undergraduate environmental and sustainability offerings and its major (dual) and minor are available to all students on campus. Other departments and programs offer a variety of sustainability-related courses that complement and supplement the offerings from ENVS.
Please note: While some of these courses are entry level or G.E., many are upper division courses that have extensive prerequisites or are only open to majors or minors in those departments/programs.

Course listing submission instructions

Criteria

The PUSC's goal is to identify all campus offerings that focus on sustainability or have sustainability issues/concerns at their core. Please review the About Us and Goals and Strategies sections of this Web site for more information. We recognize that the current listing of sustainability-related course offerings is only a beginning.

Submission instructions for course review

Please recognize that this Curriculum page is a work in progress. We suspect that this initial list by no means represents the full extent of WMU's sustainability-related offerings. We need your assistance to help update these pages and to more fully reflect available course offerings. If you are aware of additional courses, which focus on sustainability or have sustainability issues/concerns at their core please email a short note with the the following information:

  1. course number
  2. description of course content
  3. syllabus
  4. web link
  5. any additional important details

to PUSC Chair:

All suggestions will be reviewed by the PUSC and placed on the Curriculum Web page, if deemed appropriate. Notification will be sent to the requester.

Courses on-campus with sustainability emphasis

College of Arts and Sciences

ANTH 1500 Race, Biology, and Culture
ANTH 3450

Topics in Anthropology—Garbage: Humans and Their Refuse
BIOS 5440 Global Change Ecology
BIOS 5445 Human Ecology
ENVS Courses Environmental Studies Program
The two introductory feeder courses for ENVS and two upper division courses that focus on sustainability and real-world problem solving are highlighted below. Please use the link above to review the full complement of ENVS offerings.
  ENVS 1100 Nature and Society
  ENVS 3000

GE & Honors Environment, Technology, and Values

  ENVS 4100 Appropriate Technologies and Sustainability (Ecological Design: The Campus as a Living, Learning Laboratory)
  ENVS 4500 Senior Seminar (For ENVS majors only)
ENGL 3110 Our Place In Nature
GEOG 1000 World Ecological Problems and Man
GEOG 1020 World Geography Through Media and Maps
GEOG 2050 Human Geography
GEOS 1440 Environmental Earth Science
GEOS 2220

Climate Change: Geological Perspectives
GEOS 2320

Integrated Earth Systems Studies
GEOS 3220 Ocean Systems
HIST 3180 American Environmental History
PHYS 1020 Energy and the Environment

College of Aviation

AVS 2800 Transportation Technology: Policy, Perils, and Promise

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

CHEG 2610 Environmental Engineering
CHEG 2960 Material and Energy balances
CHEG 4440 Energy Management Engineering
ME 4330 Environmental Systems Design in Building
PAPR 1600 Introduction to Environmental Technology
PAPR 4600 Plant Economics and Project Design

College of Health and Human Services

HOL 1000 Choices in Living
HOL 3300 Holism and the Environment

Grad Level

GEOG 5020/6500

Slope Stability Analysis
GEOG 5550 Contemporary Issues and Resource Management
GEOS 5090

Surface Water Hydrology
GEOS 5120

Principles of Hydrogeology
GEOS 5450

Hazardous Waste Remediation
GEOS 5550

Introduction to Geochemistry
GEOS 6120

Advanced Hydrogeology
GEOS 6150

Contaminant Hydrology
ME 5770 Fuel Cells
ME 6320 Energy Resources and Conversion
 

WMU Sustainability
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008 USA