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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.

General education courses including environmental sustainability
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 CatalogsLog 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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Undergraduate courses that include environmental sustainability
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

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