Sustainability Related Academics
This resource is designed to give you some ideas of the approaches to environmental issues from different academic disciplines. This list might also help undergraduate students find electives or majors related to sustainability. Although this list is extensive, it does not include special topics courses. Check the course catalog for program descriptions or check the course offering bulletin via my connection.
Additionally, Fredonia is proud to announce the new Environmental Studies Minor!
The Environmental Studies minor was designed to allow for exploration of environmental and sustainability issues through a variety of academic disciplines. Students develop a broad understanding of the interactions between humans and the environment through a core curriculum that includes Historical contexts, Humanities, and the Natural and Social Sciences. Beyond this core curriculum, students engage with at least two additional courses from two different disciplines including Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Environmental Sciences, Geology, History, Political Science, and Sociology. The program is tied together as a cohesive whole through two 1 credit capstone seminars.
The Environmental Studies minor is a strong addition to the curricular transcript of those students who are thinking about environmentally focused careers in the areas of: advocacy and public policy, communications, economics, history, journalism, law, or writing. The breadth and interdisciplinary nature of the program provides a solid foundation in the multitude of perspectives from which to view the natural world, and the variety of independent but interconnected paths from which to build a career focused on sustainability.
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Anthropology
ANTH210 - Physical Anthropology
ANTH301 - Plagues And Peoples
Biology
BIOL115 - Environmental Biology
BIOL243 - Biodiversity
BIOL330/331 - General Ecology
BIOL343 - Conservation
BIOL421 - Biological Conservation
BIOL426 - Current Environmental Topics
BIOL420 - Population/Community Ecology
Business
BUAD327 - Operations Management
BUAD378 - Business and Ethics
Chemistry
CHEM105 - Food Chemistry
CHEM107 - Chemistry for Consumers
CHEM113 - Chemistry and the Environment
CHEM126 - General Chemistry Lab II
CHEM154 - Nature of Science
CHEM302 - Chemistry in Today's Society
CHEM473 - Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
CHEM474 - Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry
Communication
COMM321 - Environmental Communication
COMM460 - Organizational Communication
Economics
ECON335 - Economic Development
ECON340 - Urban and Regional Economics
ECON380 - Environmental/Natural Resource Economics
Education
EDU226 - The Earth As A System
EDU403 - Teaching Science in Inclusive Educational Settings
English
ENGL333 - Environmental Literature
ENGL399 - Literature of Place (special topic)
Environmental Sciences
ESCI105 - Global Environmental Issues
ESCI310 - Methods in Environmental Analysis
ESCI410 - Environmental Assessment
ESCI440 - Environmental Sciences Seminar
Geology
GEO121 - Landform Geography
GEO140 - Catastrophic Weather
GEO142 - Drifting Continents
GEO143 - Evolution of Life
GEO145 - Geology of New York State
GEO146 - Great Ice Age
GEO148 - Trembling Earth
GEO149 - Volcanoes
GEO150 - Moons and Planets
GEO152 - Evolution of Western Science
GEO160 - Oceanography
GEO165 - Geology I
GEO175 - Thirsty Planet
GEO180 - Weather and Climate
GEO210 - Geology II
GEO215 - Minerals and Rocks
GEO301 - Cartography
GEO311 - Global Climate
GEO331 - Restless Earth
GEO359 - Vanishing Earth Resources
Geographic Info Systems
GIS350 - Remote Sensing/Image Processing
History
HIST310 - World Environmental History
HIST352 - Environmental History of North America
Physics
PHYS104 - The Big Bang
Political Science
POLI240 - Urbanization and Environmental Challenges
POLI276 - Law and Society
POLI381 - Urban Politics and Policy
POLI387 - Environmental Policy
Sociology
SOC215 - Introduction to Public Health
Statistics
STAT250 - Statistics for Scientists
Faculty with Environmental Focus:
Bill Brown, Biology
Matt Gronquist, Chemistry
Mike Jabot, Education
Christina Jarvis, English
David Kinkela, History
Tracy Marafiote, Communications
Mike Milligan, Chemistry
Peter Reinelt, Economics