Courses
Sustainable Courses Offered Through the Major:
*Note: This list of courses is information gathered on 08/19/2020 and is subject to change as new courses are being developed and the major is being refinalized. For specific questions, please contact the program director for Sustainability Studies and the Environment, Karen Rosenflanz at krosenflanz@css.edu or the Sustainability Coordinator, Ryan Ihrke, at rihrke@css.edu
SUS 1117 Introduction to Sustainability
CHM 1010 Chemistry and Sustainability
SUS 1777 Food Justice
SUS 2777 Frontiers in Sustainability: Germany and Iceland
TRS 2777 Catholic Social Teaching and the Environment
BIO 1103 Current Environmental Topics
HIS 2777 Environmental History
SUS 3777 Environmental Imaginative Arts: Writing Nature
PHL 2250 Environmental Ethics
BIO 1115 Global Challenges: Scientific Solutions
ECN 2410 Environmental Economics
SUS 3777 Environmental Imaginative Arts: Public Art
GCL 3305 Contemporary Africa
GCL/SUS 3777 Environmental Imaginative Arts: Music as Environmental Activism
SUS 4555 Internship
Link to Schema: http://publications.css.edu/advisor/20-21/pdf/MajorSchemes/SustainabilityStudiesandtheEnvironment.pdf
Create an Independent Study
Are you interested in a certain, specific topic that is not offered in the general course curriculum at St. Scholastica? Have you always been extremely fascinated with kombucha, growing your own sprouts, the science behind composting or designing clothing out of recycled almond milk cartons? Well, good news! You can create an independent study and delve into any of those topics. Find a professor who is willing to conduct the study with you, set your credit load, the learning outcomes of your course, and set to work investigating your deepest, most specific passions. Our sustainability coordinator Ryan Ihrke, who has a masters in experiential education is an excellent professor to teach about anything sustainable related. If you have an idea of a course you would like to create email either sustainability@css.edu or rihrke@css.edu. If you like the idea of creating a course centered around something sustainable but are not sure what exactly that looks like, we are here to help you and you can check out some ideas below as well as an example of a course that took place in the Spring of 2020.
Note that there are also several opportunities through study abroad coursework, especially through the HECUA programs.