Natural Hazards and Disasters part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Courses
Natural Hazards and Disasters applies the basic principles of science to the recognition and analysis of natural hazards and the mitigation of related disasters. Students learn about the scientific causes and ...

Environmental Science and Policy part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Courses
This is an upper level college course for environmental science and sometimes political science majors or others who are interested. It consists largely of class discussions of material from an environmental policy ...

Russanne Low: Using Food Security in Science Systems Environment and Sustainability at University of Nebraska at Lincoln part of The Wicked Problem of Global Food Security
InTeGrate Modules work on-line! This is an example of an InTeGrate module, taught on-line and asynchronously in a large class format. The module was embedded in a team-taught introductory environmental science course offered by UNL's School of Natural Resources. The course emphasizes the importance of personal ethics, social responsibility, and sustainable practices as linkages between the environment and society. This module served as the culminating activity for the course, and students were challenged to apply systems thinking in an exploration of the complex, multiscalar factors that contribute to the wicked problem of global food security in their assigned region.

Environmental Justice and Sustainability part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Courses
The course investigates the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental choices, and the legal, philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings of various theories of justice. A major focus is the ...

Environmental Justice part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Courses
This course explores the justice implications of environmental problems by examining the history of the environmental justice movement, current conceptions and definitions of environmental justice, and case study ...

Basic Hydrology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
Basic Hydrology is an introduction to physical and applied hydrology and explores the components of the hydrologic cycle including processes of precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, ground-water flow, surface runoff and streamflow.

Hydrotopia: Water Resources Management in the West part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
This is an interdisciplinary water management course. It is co-taught by an engineering instructor and an instructor from humanities. Students experience class sessions involving traditional lectures, guest speakers, position paper debates, and design charettes. Students are required to complete numerous in-class exercises, homework, three position papers, and a team project.

Rick Oches: Using Cli-Fi at Bentley University part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
The purpose of this course is to provide a foundation in essential concepts of environmental science as applied to the development of an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable society. Students learn about ecosystem function, nutrient and energy cycling in the environment, human population dynamics, material and energy resource consumption, agriculture and food production, global climate change, and disparities in the global distribution of population, wealth, and access to essential resources. The ultimate goal is to think about sustainability from a complex systems perspective and appreciate the importance of addressing wicked problems from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Science and Other Stories: Reading the Mississippi River part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Courses
This course is an exploration of the nature of science and sustainability, focusing on the local system of the Upper Mississippi River.

Environmental Assessment part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Courses
Students in this fourth-year course explore the policy and requirements of environmental assessment in both a Canadian and international context. Students gain familiarity with the environmental assessment process ...