Sustainability Academics
In addition to offering undergraduate and graduate programs in sustainability, the University of Dayton turns to its Marianist tradition and Habits of Inquiry and Reflection and offers courses across the curriculum and schools in the interdisciplinary study of sustainability.
Sustainability Program
This interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts and Sciences and part of the Hanley Sustainability Institute offers bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in sustainability, as well as a minor and a graduate certificate.
Sustainability-Related Programs of Study
- Sustainability (B.A., B.S.)
- Earth and Environmental Geosciences (B.S.)
- Environmental Biology (B.S.)
- International Studies: Global Health and Environment (B.A.)
- Sustainability (Minor)
- Law-HSI Collaborative (J.D.)
- Renewable and Clean Energy Engineering (M.S.)
- Sustainability (Graduate Certificate)
Course Offerings
In addition to degrees and programs, each of our academic units offer a variety of sustainability-related courses. View the sustainability, energy and the environment course descriptions, or explore the additional courses offered in the academic units. Descriptions can be found in the academic catalog.
College of Arts and Sciences
- ASI 320: Cities and Energy
- ASI 322: Cities and suburbs: influence of place
- ASI 345: River Leadership curriculum
- BIO 101: Life, environment, and society
- BIO 152: Concepts of biology II: evolution and ecology
- BIO 310: Ecology
- BIO 320: Marine biology
- BIO 359: Sustainability and the biosphere
- BIO 395: Global environmental biology
- BIO 407: Plant diversity and ecology
- BIO 409: Ecological restoration
- BIO 452: Biology of rivers and lakes
- BIO 459: Environmental ecology
- BIO 489: Mycology
- BIO 509: Ecological restoration
- CHM 200: Chemistry and society
- CHM 234: Energy resources
- ENG 342: Literature and environment
- GEO 103: Principles of geography
- GEO 109: Earth, environment, and society
- GEO 208: Environmental geology
- GEO 234: Energy resources
- GEO 309: Surface and groundwater hydrology
- GEO 450: Applied GIS
- GEO 455: Remote Sensing
- GEO 550: Applied GIS
- GEO 555: Remote Sensing
- GEO 560: Advanced applications of GIS
- HST 342: Environmental history of the Americas
- HST 359: History of American city planning
- HST 499: Food justice
- MPA 526: Leadership in building communities
- MPA 556: Environmental policy
- PHL 310: Social philosophy: food justice
- PHL 321: Environmental ethics
- PHL 334: Philosophy and ecology
- PHY 220: Energy and environmental physics
- POL 300: Environmental rights, justice, and the law
- POL 371: Environmental policy
- POL 426: Leadership in building communities
- REL 472: Ecology and religion
- SCI 230: Organisms, evolution, and the environment
- SEE 250: Introduction to sustainability, energy, and environment
- SEE 301: Global change and earth systems
- SEE 303: Constructions of place
- SEE 401: Sustainability research I
- SEE 402: Sustainability research II
- SOC 329: Racial and ethnic issues
- SOC 339: Social inequality
- SOC 351: Urban sociology
- SOC 352: Community: food justice
- SOC 368: Immigration and immigrants
- SOC 392: Food justice
- SOC 411: Crime and inequality
- SSC 200: Social science CAP, Globalization
- UDI 262: Exploring sustainability, energy, and environment
- UDI 316: River Steward experience I
- UDI 324: Living simply and sustainably
- UDI 416: River Steward experience II
School of Engineering
- CEE 560: Biological processes in wastewater engineering (cross-listed as BIE 560)
- CEE 562: Physical and chemical water and wastewater treatment processes
- CME 430: Chemical engineering design I
- CME 431: Chemical engineering design II
- CME 560: Biological processes in wastewater engineering
- CME 562: Physical and chemical water and wastewater treatment processes
- CME 563: Hazardous water engineering
- CME 575: Fundamentals of air pollution engineering II
- EGR 103: Engineering innovation
- EGR 330: Engineering design and appropriate technology
- MEE 420: Energy efficient buildings
- MEE 456: Energy systems engineering
- MEE 457: Building energy information
- MEE 461: Solar energy engineering
- MEE 462: Geothermal energy engineering
- MEE 464: Sustainable energy systems
- MEE 472: Design for environment
- MEE 473: Renewable energy systems
- MEE 478: Energy efficient manufacturing
- MEE 490: Geothermal energy systems
- MEE 490: Renewable energy systems
- MEE 490: Wind energy engineering
- MEE 511: Advanced thermodynamics
- MEE 524: Electrochemical Power
- MEE 590: Solar energy engineering
- RCL 507: Materials advanced energy applications
- RCL 511: Advanced thermodynamics
- RCL 524: Electrochemical power
- RCL 533: Biofuel production processes
- RCL 556: Energy systems engineering
- RCL 557: Building energy informatics
- RCL 561: Solar energy engineering
- RCL 562: Geothermal energy engineering
- RCL 563: Wind energy engineering
- RCL 564: Sustainable energy systems
- RCL 568: Internal combustion engines
- RCL 569: Energy efficient buildings
- RCL 571: Design of thermal systems
- RCL 572: Design for the environment
- RCL 573: Renewable energy systems
- RCL 578: Energy efficient manufacturing
- RCL 583: Advanced photovoltaics
School of Business Administration
- ECO 435: Economics of the environment
- ECO 485: Urban and regional economies
School of Education and Health Sciences
- HSS 302: Global and cultural nutrition
