We propose to develop two new linked, 200-level required courses (Earth’s Surface and Earth Systems) for the Geology B.S. major in the Department of Geosciences that center climate change as the unifying theme. These courses will teach students, within an

Effective work on sustainability and climate change requires the incorporation of value judgments with the methods involved in scientific practice. Unfortunately, existing investigations into these questions often are exclusively focused on either the methods of data collection, modeling, and inferences

Environmental Humanities (EH) has emerged in recent years as a field aiming to bring the humanities together for scholarship, teaching, and community-based research in a world that is facing climate catastrophe and environmental crisis. In symbiotic collaboration, the humanities are

In this undergraduate course, students are introduced to concepts including carbon markets and offsets, ecosystem services, natural capital investment and more. Rooted in history and theory of development studies, political ecology, and environmental markets, this interdisciplinary course covers topics like

Developing a new interdisciplinary undergraduate course on comics and graphic novels about sustainability and climate change, focusing particularly on the perspectives and experiences of communities of color and Indigenous peoples. The course, Graphic Greenprints: Sustainability Stories in Marginalized Worlds, will

Community-engaged initiatives within public health are sorely needed to enhance community resilience to climate-related threats. This proposed course will use experiential learning to provide Environmental and Public Health (EPH) students with the skills to translate global climate change and health

People in different environmental and socioeconomic contexts experience sustainability in various ways—which is especially true for the culturally and ecologically diverse region of the Intermountain West. A key component of the WRMES program is a 20-day summer field course (NR

The interdisciplinary International Studies major in the College of Liberal Arts will introduce a new course, “Global Studies through Global Data,” that works actively with data in the context of key issues in international studies and sustainable development such as

Global challenges related to climate change and sustainability have grown, and chemistry education has a critical role to play. In particular, the environmental and health impacts of chemical exposure have raised global concerns. How can we as educators encourage undergraduate

Many students entering the Chemical and Biological Engineering program at CSU are passionate about topics related to sustainability and are quite excited to conduct hands-on experiments to reinforce concepts they are learning in their lecture-based classes. Unfortunately, there are currently