General Education Program
The following are examples of environmental sustainability courses listed as part of the General Education Program requirements. See the General Education Program for complete details.
| Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|
|
GEOG |
200 |
Geography: The Global Dimension |
|
GEOL |
102 |
Environment: Earth |
|
GEOL |
115 |
Earth Systems and Climate Change |
|
GEOL |
211 |
Introduction to Oceanography |
|
ISAT |
100 |
Environmental and Energy Sustainability |
|
ISAT |
112 |
Environmental Issues in Science and Technology (includes lab) |
More Environmental Sustainability Courses
Most academic units offer at least one environmental sustainability-related course, and many units offer numerous courses. Use the search box to search by course prefix, course number, or key word. The table below includes only undergraduate courses, but many sustainability-related graduated courses are offered and can be found in the course catalog.
For current course descriptions, please see the Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Log into MyMadison to see which courses are offered in a particular semester. Then, contact the instructor of record listed in MyMadison to learn important details of how sustainability is included in a course, such as how deeply sustainability is explored and which dimensions of sustainability are included.
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| Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH | 307 | Climate, Culture and Change |
| ANTH | 317 | Primate Evolutionary Ecology |
| ANTH | 430 | Primate Conservation Biology |
| BIO | 250 | Quantitative Ecology and Evolution |
| BIO | 310 | Marine Biology |
| BIO | 354 | Global Climate Change and Life: Ecological and Biological Impacts of Climate Variability |
| BIO | 357 | Galapagos Islands: Biodiversity and Conservation |
| BIO | 402 | Forest Ecology |
| BIO | 418 | Conservation Biology |
| BIO | 449 | Insect Ecology |
| BIO | 452 | Population Ecology |
| BIO | 457 | Biological Applications of Geographic Information Systems |
| CHEM | 353 | Environmental Chemistry |
| CHEM | 395 | Perspectives in Chemistry |
| CISE | 401 | Applied Ethics for Environmental Stewardship |
| CS | 330 | Societal and Ethical Issues in Computing |
| ECON | 305 | Environmental Economics |
| EDUC | 455 | Perspectives in Environmental Education |
| ENG | 390 | The Environmental Imagination |
| ENGR | 232 | Engineering Design II |
| ENGR | 411 | Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering and Design |
| ENGR | 412 | Sustainable Engineering and Design II |
| ENGR | 471 | Water in Africa |
| ENGR | 490 | Engineering for Sustainable Development |
| ENVT | 101 | Perspectives in Environmental Science |
| ENVT | 200 | Environmental Systems Theory |
| ENVT | 303 | Topics in Environment |
| ENVT | 366 | Religion, Animals and the Environment |
| ENVT | 400 | Capstone Seminar in Environmental Problem Solving |
| GEOG | 200 | Geography: The Global Dimension |
| GEOG | 210 | Physical Geography |
| GEOG | 216 | Earth Observation and GPS |
| GEOG | 280 | Human Geography: The Cultural Landscape |
| GEOG | 290 | Human-Environment Interactions |
| GEOG | 308 | Environment, Nature and Society |
| GEOG | 320 | Human Dimensions of Global Change |
| GEOG | 322 | Agricultural Systems |
| GEOG | 336 | Environmental Hazards: A Focus on Southest Asia |
| GEOG | 339 | Geography of the Caribbean |
| GEOG | 340 | Biogeography |
| GEOG | 341 | Wilderness Techniques |
| GEOG | 380 | Cultural Geography |
| GEOG | 429 | Sustainability: An Ecological Perspective |
| GEOG | 440 | Advanced Biogeograhpy |
| GEOG | 470 | Senior Seminar in Environmental Conservation, Sustainability and Development |
| GEOG | 476 | Sustainable Cities Seminar |
| GEOL | 102 | Environment: Earth |
| GEOL | 115 | Earth Systems and Climate Change |
| GEOL | 211 | Introduction to Oceanography |
| GEOL | 460 | Hydrogeology |
| HIST | 326 | How Cars Changed Everything |
| HIST | 427 | U.S. Environmental History |
| HTH | 352 | Environmental Health |
| HTH | 422 | Public Health and Healthcare Policy |
| ISAT | 100 | Environmental and Energy Sustainability |
| ISAT | 112 | Environmental Issues in Science and Technology |
| ISAT | 212 | Energy Issues in Science and Technology |
| ISAT | 311 | Role of Energy in Modern Society |
| ISAT | 320 | Fundamentals of Environmental Science & Technology I |
| ISAT | 321 | Fundamentals of Environmental Science & Technology II |
| ISAT | 330 | Sustainable Manufacturing Systems |
| ISAT | 410 | Sustainable Energy Development |
| ISAT | 411 | Energy Economics and Policy |
| ISAT | 422 | Industrial Environmental Management |
| ISAT | 423 | Environmental Remediation |
| ISAT | 424 | Natural Resource Management |
| ISAT | 425 | Environmental Hydrology |
| ISAT | 426 | Environmental Information Systems |
| ISAT | 428 | Industrial Ecology |
| ISAT | 429 | Sustainability: An Ecological Perspective |
| ISAT | 430 | Materials and Manufacturing Processes |
| ISAT | 431 | Advanced Manufacturing Processes and Systems |
| ISAT | 437 | Technological Innovation and Sustainable Design |
| ISAT | 455 | Regulatory Issues Biotechnology |
| ISAT | 473 | Local Agriculture and Farm Internships |
| ISAT | 474 | Political Ecology |
| ISCI | 173 | Life and Environmental Science for Teachers |
| JUST | 357 | Environmental Justice |
| LTLE | 375 | 3D Printing: Real World Solutions |
| PHYS | 215 | Energy and the Environment |
| PPA | 484 | Environmental Regulatory Policy and Politics |
| PPA | 485 | Governance for Environmental Sustainability |
| SCOM | 302 | Third Wave Ecofeminism |
| SCOM | 354 | Environmental Communication and Advocacy |
| SOCI | 311 | Sociology of the Environment |
| SOWK | 288 | Human Rights, Social, Economic and Environmental Justice |
| WRTC | 326 | Environmental Communication and Advocacy |
