FALL 2024 SUSTAINABILITY COURSE LIST 

The following courses are available for credit in the Sustainability Minor. This is a static list, so please check in PATH to verify availability and to seek additional courses that may not be listed here. (Hint: search on the Attributes SUS1, SUS2, SUS3, or SUS4 rather than on the Subject SUS.)

Sustainability Minors should enroll in the SUS Section first, if available. If the SUS Section is full, then enroll in any other section that is available.

 

Gateway Course:

SUS 20010: Sustainability: Princ & Pract

TTh 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Instructor: Philip Sakimoto

Restrictions: Students not in the Sustainability Minor may be admitted after all in the Minor have been accommodated. Not open to First-Year students.

This interdisciplinary course explores the challenges of environmental sustainability through social, economic, scientific, and ethical lenses. Taught jointly by professors from the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences, the course aims to instill broad, integrative and critical thinking about global environmental problems whose solutions will depend on multidisciplinary approaches. This gateway course to the Minor in Sustainability is open to all students interested in a deep exploration of these critical issues. Students considering the Minor in Sustainability are encouraged to take this course during their sophomore year.

 

SUS 1: Sustainable Design

SUS 20093/20203: DESN Matters: Intro, DESN Think

TTH 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Instructor: Ann-Marie Conrado

Design is a profoundly humanistic endeavor, and something that people of all walks of life employ in their work, environment and daily life. To design is, in the words of Herbert Simon, to "change existing situations into preferred ones." While design has traditionally referenced the visual aesthetic of much of the world around us, from products and websites to fashion and interiors, more recently it has come to describe the creation and development of services, strategies and systems. More verb than noun, design has evolved into a creative process for identifying compelling problems and providing meaningful solutions. The challenges facing businesses, organizations and society have grown increasingly complex, multifaceted and ambiguous. And Design Thinking as it is referred to, has emerged as a powerful methodology for addressing wicked challenges in business, social and cultural arenas. Its approach is rooted in a deep sensitivity to human need. Mediating the complex relationship between humans and the built environment, the various design-based methods generate insights and inspire solutions that lead to more meaningful and valued interactions. Design thinking is an iterative process of discovery, ideation and experimentation in order to identify both problems and opportunities and generate innovative solutions that resonate with people and their authentic lived experience. Rather than a linear process though, these stages are best seen as overlapping spaces that one continuously loops back and forth through en route to a final solution. A This course is intended for undergraduate students of any discipline interested in learning how the methodology and tools of design thinking can ignite innovation and address problems and challenges across the spectrum. There are no pre- requisites for the course.

ARCH 40411: Environmental Systems

TTh 2:00 pm- 3:15 pm

Instructor: Stephen Kromkowski

This course investigates the relationship between architecture and environmental systems. Lectures, readings, and exercises probe topics that include passive energy design, safety systems, water conservation and usage, vertical transportation, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning. Special emphasis is placed on sustainability issues, energy conservation, and public health and safety.

ARCH 43611: Carbon Neutral Development

T 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Instructor: Ming Hu

Knowledge about the relationship between built environment development and global and local challenges, such as climate change, resource depletion, environmental impact, justice and health, is of key importance to move towards a sustainable and resilient future. This course takes a trans-disciplinary approach to understanding how to decarbonize the built environment. Linkages between and perspectives from engineering, architectural design, and social sciences are emphasized throughout the course. This course provides students with real-world problems to work with such as urbanization-related pollution in China and urban revitalization needs for the aging building stock in Germany. This course is composed of two modules: (1) Carbon neutral development at the urban scale is examined through three real case studies to explore the different development principles, design strategies and patterns. (2) Net zero building design and related environmental impact are examined through research literature and real case projects.

CE 30300: Introduction to Environmental Engineering

TTh 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Instructor: Kyle Bibby

An introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles to qualitatively and quantitatively assess complex natural and engineering systems relevant to environmental engineering. This course serves to assist students to identify, evaluate and solve problems involved in the control of water, air, and land pollution and challenges for environmental sustainability. The course introduces how fundamental science and engineering methodology is applied to solve real world environmental problems. This is the first course in the environmental engineering track.

CE 30320/60325: Physical-Chemical Water Treatment Processes

TTH 9:30 am- 10:45 am

Instructor: Kyle Doudrick

Prerequisite: CE 30300

An introduction to the physical and chemical processes used for drinking water treatment, including principles and design. We will also discuss basic water chemistry, water quality, water sources, environmental policy, and current issues in the industry.

CE 40620: Transportation Engineering and Construction

MW 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Instructor: Philip Barutha

Prerequisite: CE 20600

The planning, design, operation, safety, and economics of transportation systems.

 

SUS 2: Natural Systems

SUS 30027: Appalachia: Land and People

TTH 2pm-3:15pm

Instructor: Jon Coleman

This course tells the history of Appalachia through human's relationships with the natural environment. The class starts in geologic time with the formation of the mountains and spools forward through ebb and flow of Native American homelands, the colonial wars and the fur trade, the American invasion, the growth of an agrarian economy centered on corn, pigs, and whiskey, the arrival of the railroads and the extractive industries of coal and timber, and finally the difficulties wrought by de-industrialization, climate change, and the opioid epidemic. The central characters throughout are the men and women who wrested their living from the mountains and the hollows, and their struggles as a series of political, economic, and ecological transformations dispossessed them. Over time, Appalachia was impoverished and made marginal; in the eyes of many, the place and the people were deemed exploitable and expendable. This class seeks to understand how Appalachia became synonymous with grinding poverty and environmental degradation. The class argues that ecosystems and people advanced and declined in tandem and that history shows neither were destined for impoverishment. This course is intended to give current Notre Dame students who have or who might visit and volunteer in Appalachia the historical perspective they may need to fully appreciate the region's problems and potential.

SUS 30312: General Ecology

TTH 11:00 am- 12:15 pm

Instructor: Tyler Coverdale

Prerequisites: (BIOS 10161 or 20201) and (BIOS 10162 or 20202)

The study of populations and communities of organisms and their interrelations with the environment.

SUS 30998: Our Global Environment

MW 12:30pm-1:45pm

Instructor: Julia Thomas

The question that this course asks is which political formations have been most conducive to environmentally sustainable communities and why. Historians have long been interested in political questions about power, state structures, democracy, and economic development, but only now, with the emergence of the global environmental crisis, is the relationship between politics and ecology becoming clearer. This course has four sections. It begins by examining the contemporary phenomenon of "climate collapse" and the problem of how to conceptualize this global problem historically. We then turn to the issue of which social values and modes of production and consumption have caused this dramatic transformation of our planet, tracing the effects of state formation and industrial development. Using major books, essays, and film, we compare capitalist, socialist, and fascist approaches to the nature. The purpose of the course is to provide students with a firm grasp of environmental problems and their relation to political communities.

SUS 40805: GLOBES: Global Change and Civilization

MW 9:30am-10:45am

Instructor: Mark Schurr

Are humans and the environment co-evolved or destined for mutual destruction? All human populations, from the simplest to the most complex, interact with their natural environment. Humans alter the environment and, in turn, are altered by it through biological or cultural adaptations. Global environmental changes helped to create and shape our species, and modern industrial societies are capable of altering the environment on scales that have never been seen before. This course explores the ways that humans are altering the global environment and the ways that global environmental changes alter humans in return. Students will complete the course with an understanding of the metrics and physical science associated with several types of environmental change, their ecological implications, and the ways in which environmental changes continually reshape human biology and culture.

BIOS 30325: Plants, Society, Environment

TTh 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Instructor: Nathan Swenson

Prerequisites: Bios 10172, 20202, or 10162

Plants have provided food, medicine, fuel, and raw materials for humans throughout our history. Concurrently, humans have modified the distribution, diversity and utility of plants for our benefit in ways that are often unsustainable. Many of the grand environmental and societal challenges of today and tomorrow involve our interactions with plants and the pivotal roles they play in our natural and modified environments. The goal of this course is to provide foundational knowledge about the biology and diversity of plants. This includes learning the basics of plant anatomy and physiology and the ecology and evolutionary history of plants. This knowledge is then utilized to discuss plants as sources of food, commercial products, medicines and toxins in the past, present and future of human society."

BIOS 30420: Aquatic Ecology

MWF 12:50 pm - 1:40 pm

Instructors: Terrance Ehrman

Prerequisites: (BIOS 10161, 20201 or 10171) and (BIOS 10162, 20202 or 10172) and (BIOS 31420*).

* May be taken concurrently

A study of the structure and function of aquatic systems with emphasis on the behavioral, physiological and morphological adaptations generated by the physical and chemical characteristics of various aquatic habitats.

BIOS 40309/60310: Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology

TTh 11:00 am -12:15 pm

Instructors: Jennifer Tank

The course will examine the interacting processes of the physical environment and the biota as they influence the flux and distribution of chemical substances in the biosphere (i.e. biogeochemistry & ecosystem ecology). The course will also explore major chemical, biological, and geological processes that occur within and between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at the scales of organisms, functional groups, ecosystems, and the globe. The course is open to upper-level undergraduates with a strong interest in ecology and environmental biology and who have had a minimum of one semester of ecology (i.e., general ecology, aquatic ecology).

CE 30500: Geomorphology for Engineers & Scientists

TTh 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Instructor: Stefanie Simonetti

This course introduces students to principles and processes of landform evolution with emphasis on global-scale Earth processes, volcanic & tectonic geomorphology, weathering processes & soils and mass movement. Processes and landform evolution in fluvial, desert, glacial, coastal and karst environments are investigated, and the effects on human structures and developments are explored. The course concludes with a discussion on the impact of climate change on Earth's surface features.

CE 40355/40800/40355: Water, Disease & Global Health

MW 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Instructor: Joshua Shrout

Prerequisite: (CHEM 10122, BIOS 10161 or CHEM 10171)

The main emphasis of the course will be to study the diseases important to both the developed and developing world. Basic principles of public health, epidemiology, infectious disease microbiology, immunology, and engineering application will be learned utilizing both local and global examples. Particular emphasis will be given to diseases transmitted by water. As a complement to environmental engineering design classes, this class will focus upon the disease agents removed in properly designed municipal water and waste systems.

CHEM 30331: Chem in Service of Community

M 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm

M 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Instructor: Marya Liberman

Prerequisite: (CHEM 11171 or 11181) and (11172 or 11182)

Addressing the problem of lead contamination in the community, students will learn about the chemistry, toxicology, and socio-economic impacts of this environmental toxin. They will analyze paint, dust, water, and soil samples and research ways to help homeowners reduce the exposure of young children to lead.

CHEM 40420: Principles of Biochemistry

MWF 10:30am-11:30am

Instructor: Rachel Branco

A general treatment of the various areas of modern biochemistry including protein structure and function, bioenergetics, molecular basis of genetic and developmental processes, cellular mechanisms and intermediary metabolism.

The course this semester will emphasize examples of biochemical concepts related to sustainability in terms of the effects of toxicants and climate change, and also the hope for future technologies that mitigate such deleterious effects.

PHYS 10033/20333: Earth Focus

TTH 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Instructor: Ani Aprahamian

The Earth Focus course develops a narrative that pieces together the history of planet Earth over the last 4.5 billion years. Its violent beginnings, the changing orbital motions and seasons, the development of an atmosphere and oceans, all combined to produce a unique evolutionary history that formed a planet habitable by millions of life forms, including humans. The course introduces the science of natural climate change, including some drastic events that might leave you wondering how life could have survived. Understanding Earth's natural climate change is essential to analyzing and interpreting anthropogenic, i.e., human induced, climate change primarily brought about by the burning of fossil fuels over the last 150 years. The greenhouse effect will be used to explain how Earth has maintained its generally pleasant conditions, and climate models will be used to understand how small changes in CO2 levels can affect those conditions. With the ongoing consumption of fossil fuels, and the resulting addition of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere, mankind is now conducting a unique experiment, one with potentially devastating consequences. Over the last century, the world has become highly industrialized and interconnected. The combustion of fossil fuels has played a major role in this process, and the consequences have become apparent with increasing pollution and climate issues. Earth is already beginning to react badly, e.g., a rise in ocean levels, weather extremes, ocean acidification, and extinction of species. How much the rising CO2 concentration and temperature will affect life on Earth is the question that scientists, politicians, economists, sociologists, as well as the rest of us, must consider in assessing what lies ahead. Decisions need to be made in the foreseeable future that will affect energy use, lifestyles, national economies, and international politics. Renewable and alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and nuclear are essential components of the energy discussion. A clear understanding of the science involved in the climate warming debate and potential solutions are necessary. It is up to each of us to examine the basic evidence and answer fundamental questions regarding what to do next. The goal of the course is to provide the history, science, and an understanding of the basic energy issues that face us in the 21st century with the goal of finding effective solutions. The focus will be on the facts and the underlying science, but it is also about the options and decisions that we, individually and as a society, must make regarding the very real implications of climate change.

CE 20110/20111: Planet Earth

TTh 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Instructor: Antonio Simonetti

An introduction to the Earth and its processes, composition, evolution, and structure. The course introduces the student to mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, oceanography, surficial processes, and environmental geology. Lecture and laboratory meetings.

SOC 43402: Population Dynamics

MW 9:30 am - 10:45

Instructor: Richard Williams

Demography, the science of population, is concerned with virtually everything that influences, or can be influenced by, population size, distribution, processes, structure, or characteristics. This course pays particular attention to the causes and consequences of population change. Changes in fertility, mortality, migration, technology, lifestyle, and culture have dramatically affected the United States and the other nations of the world. These changes have implications for a number of areas: hunger, the spread of illness and disease, environmental degradation, health services, household formation, the labor force, marriage and divorce, care for the elderly, birth control, poverty, urbanization, business marketing strategies, and political power. An understanding of these is important as business, government, and individuals attempt to deal with the demands of the changing population.

 

SUS3: Social Institutions

SUS 30242/30402: The Geopolitics of Energy

MW 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Instructor: Rosemary Kelanci

Studying environmental politics can be a gloomy pursuit. There are a myriad of devastating problems and a seeming scarcity of scientific and technological fixes. Technical fixes aside, there is the even more problematic scarcity of political fixes. Political institutions often seem to obstruct rather than facilitate environmentally sound policies, and the mass public and political leaders often prioritize competing goals and policies. This course is designed to understand whether the pessimism is warranted and to search for the optimism: What are the best opportunities, scientific and political, for saving the planet? What can realistically be accomplished?

SUS 30592/63592: Indigenous Environments

TTH 12:30 pm- 1:45 pm

Instructor: Donna Glowacki

This course seeks to explore connections between environment and culture change by introducing students to the diversity of cultures living in the Southwest. We begin by learning about indigenous people living in the Southwest today including the Pueblo peoples (e.g., Hopi, Zuni, Santa Clara, Cochiti, Acoma), Navajo, and Tohono O'odham using ethnography and contemporary native histories. We will then travel back in time to learn about the complex histories of these people, particularly the pueblos in places like Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, the Rio Grande, the Mimbres Valley, and the Phoenix Basin. Our explorations will cover from the earliest Paleoindians (11,500 years ago) to European contact, the establishment of Spanish Missions, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680-1692 and then bring this discussion to today. Along the way, we will explore the impact of large-scale, long-term processes such as the adoption of agriculture, village formation, religious change, migration, and warfare on the rich historical landscape of the Southwest.

SUS 40160: Accountability Sustainable World

Section 1: TTh 9:30 am- 10:45 am

Section 2: TTh 11:00 am- 12:15 pm

Instructor: Peter Easton

Restrictions: Freshman and Sophomore may not enroll

This course is designed to develop future sustainability leaders through active engagement with key participants, critical synthesis of research on the measurement of climate change effects, and movement toward quantifiable achievable goals. The course is open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students from all disciplines across the university. The interdisciplinary nature of the class ensures lively debate.

SUS 40491: Solutions: Science, Politics, and Saving the Planet

Section 1: TTh 2:00 pm- 3:15 pm

Instructor: D. Javelin

Section 2: TBA

Studying environmental politics can be a gloomy pursuit. There are a myriad of devastating problems and a seeming scarcity of scientific and technological fixes. Technical fixes aside, there is the even more problematic scarcity of political fixes. Political institutions often seem to obstruct rather than facilitate environmentally sound policies, and the mass public and political leaders often prioritize competing goals and policies. This course is designed to understand whether the pessimism is warranted and to search for the optimism: What are the best opportunities, scientific and political, for saving the planet? What can realistically be accomplished?

 

SUS 4: Individual Behaviors and Values

SUS 20350/20888: Sustainability at Notre Dame and in the Holy Cross Charism

T 2:30 pm- 4:30 pm

Th 2:30 pm- 3:00 pm

Instructor: Margaret Pfeil

Prerequisites: THEO 10000, 10001, 10002, 10011, 13002, 10801, 13183 or PLS 20302

This course will address sustainability in the context of the local academic community and its institutions. In light of the recent papal encyclical, Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home, this course will provide students with interdisciplinary opportunities to explore the challenges of sustainability and to develop collaborative strategies for making our common campus homes more sustainable. This course will be offered concurrently at ND, SMC, and HCC, and will be co-taught by faculty from all three campuses. It will meet in rotation on each of the three campuses once per week for two hours. Students will be invited to examine the course materials in conversation with the mission of the Congregation of Holy Cross through immersion at each of the campuses and encounters with the sisters, brothers, and priests of Holy Cross and with sustainability professionals.

SUS 20666: Environment, Food and Society

MW 3:30ppm-4:45pm

Instructor: Christian Smith

This course is an introduction to environmental sociology, the sociology of food, and Catholic social teachings on creation, solidarity, human dignity and rights, and social justice as they relate to the environment and food issues. The course has two directly linked central purposes. One is to learn descriptive and analytical sociological perspectives on environmental and food issues, as well as related matters of agriculture, globalization, consumerism, rural America, health, social movements, and human futures. A second purpose is to learn Catholic social teachings on the environment and food issues, in order to deepen our capacity to reflect normatively from a particular moral perspective about crucial social problems. Achieving these two purposes will require us recurrently to engage the sociological and the Catholic perspectives and contributions in mutually informative and critical conversation. This is fundamentally a sociology course, but one in which Catholic social ethics stand front and center. In other words, this course will engage in multiple, ongoing exercises of "reflexivity," engaging the sociological imagination, issues of environment and food, and Catholic social teachings - to consider what possible fruitful understandings each may provide for and about the others. Students need not be Catholic (or even religious) to benefit from this course, but everyone must be open to learning about and reflecting upon Catholic ethical teachings as they relate to the environment and food. This course will explore a number of interconnected substantive issues, descriptively, analytically, and normatively. These will include technological development, energy consumption, global warming/climate change, neoliberal capitalism, interests of nation states, corporate power, the role of mass media, population dynamics, the maldistribution of wealth, political decision-making, the status of agrarianism, human dignity, the common good, the option for the poor, the universal destiny of the earth's goods, creation care, and the moral goods of solidarity, subsidiarity, and participation, among other relevant topics.

SUS 20888: Science, Theology, & Creation

Section 1: MWF 9:25 am - 10:15 am

Section 2: MWF 10:30 am - 11:20 am

Instructor: Terrence Ehrman

This course investigates the Christian understanding of creation and how this doctrine relates to contemporary scientific issues. We will examine the development of the doctrine beginning with Scripture and the Creed and progressing through the early Church period into the Medieval and Scholastic era, focusing on the concepts of creation ex nihilo, creation continua, divine Providence, and divine action in the world. With the rise of the modern era, we will analyze the origin of and principles involved with the purported conflict between science and theology. We will bring the doctrine of creation into dialogue with three contemporary issues in the sciences: cosmology, evolution, and ecology. Integral to this course will be the relationship and response of humankind to God and to creation. This course will have a special appeal to students interested in the intersection of science and theology.

SUS 30105: Sustainable America

TTH 2pm-3:15pm

Instructor: Thomas Tweed

This CAD course looks back to 1850, when urban industrial America began, and looks forward to 2050, when Notre Dame promises to be carbon neutral, to critically engage competing visions of individual, communal, and ecological flourishing. Students explore how US political culture, the discipline of American Studies, and the Catholic tradition have clashed and converged over the proposed solutions to poverty, racism, and environmental degradation.

After an introduction to American Studies, we turn to visions of the good life in foundational US political documents (the Declaration, the Constitution, and Inaugural Addresses) and in Roman Catholic sources (scriptural passages, papal encyclicals, the Catechism, and US Bishops’ pastoral letters). Then the course’s three main sections consider, in turn, economic equity, racial justice, and environmental restoration. Each section ends with a “faith in action” case study and a Take-a-Stand essay. In the concluding section of the class, Learning Groups present their joint proposals, and, during the exam period, each student submits an integrative essay. That essay critically and constructively engages Catholic sources as the student defends a position on one of the issues—poverty, racism, or environmental degradation—and identifies what American Studies might learn from the Catholic Tradition and what the Catholic Tradition might learn from American Studies.

WR 13200: Community Writing & Rhetoric

TTh 2pm-3:15pm

Instructor: Joanna Want

In cooperation with the Center for Social Concerns, these sections of composition place students in learning situations in the wider community where they are in contact with people who are dealing with the specific content issue of their section. We welcome students with commitment to social justice and community service to enroll.

 

1- Credit Experiential/Seminar Courses 

SUS 20200: Intro Ecological Horticulture

F 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm

Instructor: Therese Zimmerman-Niemier

Globally, the agricultural sector is the largest cause of habitat loss, aquifer depletion, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need to transform agricultural systems to meet the needs of the world's growing population while addressing these ecological impacts is one of the 21st century's grand challenges. This course will include principles, concepts and practices of sustainable food production including biodiversity, soil quality, and nutrient, water, pest and disease management, while focusing on a production culture that is environmentally regenerative. Every class meeting will involve experiential learning that will build students' skills in growing healthy food in a way that protects and restores the earth. This class will also address the environmental and social consequences of industrial farming and public health impacts of quality food accessibility in communities. 

Taught off-campus at Good Shepherd Montessori School. Transportation provided, but students must have open time before and after class to allow for travel time.

SUS 20300: Local Flora

F 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Instructors: Nathanael Pilla

This is a field-based course that explores the rich biodiversity of plant life in northern Indiana. Through hands-on experience in a diverse array of field sites, you will be introduced to various plant communities and learn to identify the plants within them. Plant communities and species distributions reflect patterns and processes as ancient as plate tectonics and as recent as glaciers and European settlement. They reflect the influence of temperature and moisture patterns as well as competition within and among plant species. They are shaped by interactions with animals, insects, and disease, as well as the actions of humans. Plants are the foundation of every terrestrial habitat, but are often overlooked. By developing a greater familiarity with plant communities and skills for identification, you will be better prepared to appreciate natural habitats, participate in conservation work, and conduct field research.

CSC 23200: Art and Social Change

W 5:00pm-6:30pm

Instructor: Michael Hebbeler

Students will work with a South Bend neighborhood to explore a structural challenge and, with the guidance of a local artist, respond to this challenge alongside community members in creating an artistic piece that serves the good of the neighborhood. This seminar will also provide a "hands-on" experience as students are exposed to practices of participatory research methods and the art-making process.

CSC 33950: Appalachia Seminar

TH 6:00pm-7:30pm

Instructor: David Lassen

This course is designed to introduce students to the cultural and social issues of the Appalachian region - its history, people, culture, challenges, and strengths - through study and experiential learning. The course also provides engagement with the people of Appalachia through a required immersion over Fall Break. The Appalachia Seminar utilizes a Catholic Social Tradition (CST) framework to build skills around social analysis, critical thinking, and theological reflection. Students examine the relationship between solidarity and service and consider how the Common Good is expressed in local communities across the region. This course has a fee.

CSC 33961: Discernment

F 10:30am-12:00pm

Instructor: Felicia Johnson O’Brien

The Discernment Seminar provides undergraduate students an opportunity to reflect on their undergraduate education and to explore their respective vocations as it relates to the common good. Whether considering a change in major, deciding on postgraduate plans, navigating a relationship, or seeking greater intentionality in daily life, students in this class will accompany each other as they consider their vocation, learn different methods of discernment, and develop practices to listen and respond to these callings. Content will include Catholic Social Teaching, cultural critique, narrative theology, spiritual practices, and the arts.

 

Capstone Courses:

SUS 38002 Capstone Ind. Rsrch Prep

No Meeting Times

Instructor: Philip Sakimoto

This course is required for all juniors (and 4th-year Architecture students) in the Minor in Sustainability.* Students will work independently on defining their capstone projects with the guidance of the instructor and their project advisor. There are no class meeting times; advisory meetings will be scheduled individually. Students will enroll in a one-credit independent study course during each semester of their senior year in order to carry out their capstone projects.

*Usually taken in the Junior Spring semester. Students who will be abroad that semester may still enroll since the course is entirely asynchronous via Canvas, or they may prefer to instead take the course in their Junior Fall semester as it is much easier to establish capstone projects while home than while abroad.

SUS 48001 Capstone Independent Research

No Meeting Times

Instructor: Philip Sakimoto

This course is required for all seniors (and 5th-year Architecture students) in the Minor in Sustainability. Students will work independently on their capstone projects with the guidance of the instructor and their project advisor. There are no class meeting times; advisory meetings will be scheduled individually.