“The Penstemon Project is designed for faculty outside of the traditional environmentally-focused disciplines to find ways to incorporate sustainability into their curriculum – either as class content or in the way their class functions,” said Virginia Matzek, one of the organizers of the 2007 workshop. “It could be as simple as having a field trip to a nature area in a writing class – or even simpler, carpooling to that field trip.”
Undergraduate Classes
CENG 20: Geology
CENG 161: Sustainable Water Resources Engineering
ECON 111: Environmental Economics
ENGL 1 & 2: Composition and Rhetoric (8 instructors)
ENGL 79: Writing about Literature and Culture (3 instructors)
ENGL 132: Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
ENGL 172: Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL 174: Nonfiction Writing
MATH 53: Linear Algebra
MATH 102: Advanced Calculus
MGMT 06: Business Ethics
MGMT 161: Organizational Structure and Design
MKTG 168: Senior Retail Seminar
MKTG 181: Principles of Marketing (2 instructors)
OMIS 108: Operations Management
POLY 50: World Geography
PSYC 2: General Psychology
PSYC 43: Research Methods
PSYC 150: Social Psychology
PSYC 158: Conservation Psychology
RSOC 18: Religion and Culture
RSOC 170: Religion, Gender and the Ethics of Globalization
RSOC XX: World Religions and the Environment
SOC 33: Social Problems in the United States
SOC 149: Business, Technology and Society
SOC 170: Applied Sociology
Graduate Classes
CPSY 240: Introduction to Mild/Moderate Disabilities
CPSY 241: Assessment of Mild/Moderate Disabilities
CPSY 244: Correctional Psychology/Education
Other Courses
ENVS 146: Sustainable Development in Latin America
This course will offer a cross-disciplinary examination of the perspectives for “sustainable development” in rural areas of Latin America. We will use diverse points of view to look at interactions between poverty, development, and environmental degradation. While there is no single, universally accepted definition of sustainable development, a central goal of this course is that each student come away with the ability to understand the key elements that distinguish different discourses on this subject (that is, what are they really saying?). This class fulfills the World Cultures regional requirement.
ENVS 160: Spirituality and Sustainability
Integrating environmental leadership and the practice of spirituality is a major challenge of our time. This class will investigate the global challenge of leading human society toward a more sustainable future animated by spiritual passion. It begins by articulating a framework for understanding how we live our individual and shared spiritual values, and then explores the relationship between spirituality and ecological consciousness. It will draw from Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu spiritual traditions to investigate the potential of consciousness to facilitate social transformation. Class projects contribute to religious institutional leadership in sustainability. This class fulfills the second Religious Studies requirement.
More information about ENVS 160 (link opens a new window)
Examples of Past Projects for ENVS 160:
Are Sustainability and Environmental Justice being Taught at Catholic Universities?
Biology and Sustainability
Engineering and Sustainability
Environmental Law and Sustainability
Humanities and Sustainability
International Politics Sustainability
Psychology and Sustainability
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