This cluster creates a bridge between the scientific approach to analyzing and solving environmental problems, the socioeconomic concerns involved in formulating and administering environmental policy, and the historic and philosophical basis of humanity's relationship to ecosystems. With the common goal of defining, characterizing and understanding environmental sustainability, the cluster identifies how each participating discipline can creatively contribute and thus, enable students to direct their own courses of study toward this end.
Cluster Coordinator: Joe Maser
Office: SB2 218B
Phone: 725-8042
E-mail: maserj@pdx.edu
A sustainable human society is one that satisfies its needs without jeopardizing the opportunity of future generations to satisfy theirs. This course introduces students to the study of environmental sustainability, and to the ways in which a wide variety of disciplines address environmental issues.
This SINQ leads to the Environmental Sustainability Cluster.
ARCH 367U Fundamentals of Environmental Design
ARCH 399U Towards Sustainable Architecture
ArH 437U Nature into Art I & II (Course Proposal)
CH 371U Environmental Chemistry (Course Proposal)
EAS 399U Problems, Solutions, and Systems Thinking (Course Proposal)
EC 332U Environmental Economics (Course Proposal)
ENG 308U Literature and the Environment
ENG 449U Green and Literary Studies (Course Proposal)
ESR 355U Understanding the Environment
ESR 356U Understanding Environmental Conservation
G 352U Minerals and World Affairs
G 410U Environmental Writing: Ecology of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
GEOG 314U Severe Weather (Course Proposal)
GEOG 326U Ecology and the Implication of Management
GEOG 338U Investigating Forest Ecosystems
GEOG 340U Global Water Issues and Sustainability (Course Proposal)
GEOG 345U Resource Management
GEOG 346U World Population and Food Supply (Course Proposal)
GEOG 347U Environmental Issues and Action (Course Proposal)
GEOG 348U Cultural Ecology (Course Proposal)
GEOG 349U Mountains: Cultural Landscapes
HST 339U Environment and History (Course Proposal)
INTL 399U International Green Building & Development
INTL 399U International Sustainability, Urban Design and Human Health
PHE 455U Film and Health (Course Proposal)
PHL 310U Environmental Ethics (Course Proposal)
SCI 326U Ecology and the Implication of Management (Course Proposal)
SCI 331U Atmospheric Interactions I
SCI 332U Atmospheric Interactions II
SCI 335U Water in the Environment I
SCI 336U Water in the Environment II
SCI 338U Investigating Forest Ecosystems (Course Proposal)
SCI 357U Sustain US/Mexico Border Region
SCI 399U Sustainable Forestry Monitoring
SOC 341U Population Trends and Policy
SYSC 399U Sustainability, Systems Concepts and Indigenous Perspectives
USP 313U Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (Course Proposal)
