For the purposes of thinking about sustainability courses at Williams, sustainability is defined as an integrated concept having social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
Faculty
Faculty who teach sustainability courses1, courses that include sustainability2, or do sustainability research3. For a list of all faculty who teach Environmental Studies courses, visit the CES website.
Below are a sampling of courses from the past couple of years that either have one or more facets of sustainability as central to the course or include the integrated concept of sustainability as one part of the course.
Williams Mystic Program – The Williams-Mystic program educates undergraduate students in a semester-long academic investigation of the sea that is accompanied by travel throughout the United States and original research opportunities.
Main Courses
This upcoming semester’s courses surrounding environmental studies and science can be found here and here.
Courses focusing on food culture, food systems, food policy, agroecology, and sustainable agriculture at Williams. Food and agriculture weave paths throughout the academic departments at Williams. A review of recent course offerings reveals the interdisciplinary importance of food as a topic of study in a liberal arts education.
PHYS 11 Elementary Cooking Techniques
ENVI 25 California Agriculture
CHIN 13 Theory and Practice of Chinese Cooking
BIOM 203(F) Ecology (Same as Environmental Studies 203) (Q)
PSCI 327(S)/ENVI 329 The Global Politics of Development and Underdevelopment
ECON 512/ENVI 212 Agriculture and Development Strategy
Students learn about natural dye techniques in Deborah Brothers Costume Design course
RUSS 206(S) Topics in Russian Culture: Feasting and Fasting in Russian History
ARTH 310(S)/ENVI 310 American Agricultural History (W)
ENVI 14 Sustainable Agriculture: On The Farm
MATH 14 The Art and Science of Baking
ECON 374T(S) Poverty and Public Policy (W)
ENVI 25 Sustainable Eleuthera: Reviving Island Agriculture
SOC 242T(F) Food and Society (W)
ENVI 219/ANTH 218 Topics in Sustainable Agriculture
ENVI 15/ANSO 15/ ECON 13 Foraging as Business Model: Sustainable Food Sourcing and the Triple Bottom Line
SPECIAL 27 /ENVI 27 Sustainable Agriculture Course
BIOM 422T(S)/ENVI 422(W) Ecology of Sustainable Agriculture
ENVI 209(F)/ANTH 209 Ecologies of Place: Culture, Commodities and Everyday Life
Sustainability courses are courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenge.
2 “Courses that Include Sustainability” – According to AASHE’s STARS definition:
A course that includes sustainability is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability issues throughout the course.
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