Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Introduction to Environmental Economics
Anna Klis, Northern Illinois University
This course offers an overview of economic analyses of environmental issues like pollution and resource management for non-majors. Students will receive an introduction to marginal thinking, market-based solutions, valuation techniques, and government intervention, with a focus on current issues and applying economics in an interdisciplinary manner to other environmental fields.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Principles of Microeconomics (Honors)
Laura Jackson Young, Bentley University
Principles of Microeconomics (Honor)s is a semester-long course which focuses on microeconomics. It is designed to provide the newcomer to economics with an understanding of the economic way of thinking and a set of microeconomic tools and models which will be useful for analyzing real world economic problems. 

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Geomicrobiology
Wesley Swingley, Northern Illinois University
Role of microorganisms in diverse environments at and below the surface of the earth. Topics include life in extreme environments, biodegradation and remediation, biogeochemical cycling, and astrobiology examined from the perspectives of geochemistry, microbial ecology, molecular biology, and ecosystem studies.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Science of Sustainability
Ryan Bouldin, Bentley University
This course examines the scientific basis for human development that provides people with a better life without sacrificing and/or depleting Earth's resources or causing environmental impacts that will undercut future generations. A service-learning project concerning conservation, recycling and reuse of everyday materials and products in the local area is a major component of the course.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Biological Fate of Drugs
This course will cover the process of drug discovery, where we find new drugs, and how these drugs are approved by the FDA. We will look at the clinical information used to drive approval decisions and look at how drugs are priced and marketed to the public. We will then transition to a closer analysis of how drugs actually work in the body. We will look at what drugs actually are, and how their chemical structure will impact their ability cause a biological effect. We will end with an investigation into where drugs end up once taken – why can we find antibiotics in most drinking water, and what can we do about it?

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Pollution Prevention and Sustainable Production
Theodore Hogan, Northern Illinois University
This is a semester-long General Education course that uses active learning to explore the concepts of sustainability through the paper, plastic and metal in a charger cable or other simple phone accessory. Students teams learn about the life cycles of each of these materials, and weigh each of the materials and quantitate the production environmental impacts on water, air and soil and human health impacts.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability
Bart Sharp, Northern Illinois University
Examination of strategic aspects of launching and scaling an entrepreneurial venture with a focus on opportunity identification, feasibility analysis, sustainability and business planning. Develops knowledge about innovation in a variety of contexts.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Science of Sustainability
Melissa Hey, Bentley University
In this course, we investigate the science underlying a range of environmental sustainability topics. Specifically, this course explores issues pertaining to several planetary boundaries including global climate change, ocean acidification, nutrient loading, land-system change, and freshwater resource depletion.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Introduction to Probability and Statistics - STAT 300
Joel Gimbel, Northern Illinois University
Introduction to the basic ideas and fundamental laws of probability including sample spaces, events, independence, random variables, special probability distributions and elementary statistical inference.

Using the Mississippi River Watershed Module in Religion, Nature, & the Environment
Travis Proctor, Wittenberg University
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the complex interactions between religion and "nature," including nature-based religions and spirituality, religious understanding of nature, the role of nature in religious practice, and the impact of religious traditions on the treatment of the environment.