Sustainability at Penn: Curricular, Extracurricular, and Institutional
I.
Past Courses
A. College of Arts and Sciences
1. Environmental Studies
a. ENVS200: Intro to Environmental Studies
b. ENVS204: Global Climate Change
c. ENVS301: Case Studies in the Environment
d. ENVS312: Ocean-Atmospheric Dynamics and Implications
for Future Climate Change
e. ENVS399: Environmental Studies Seminar
f. ENVS401: Water Resources in the Middle East
g. ENVS403: Case Studies in Ecology
h. ENVS404: The Urban Environment
i. ENVS406: Community-Based Environmental Health
j. ENVS407: Freshwater Ecology
k. ENVS408: Prevention of Tobacco
l. ENVS410: Clean Water-Green Cities: An ABCS Approach to
Using Water Science to Create a Sustainable Philadelphia
m. ENVS413: Business and the Environment
n. ENVS416: Planning for Land Preservation
o. ENVS437: Global Water Issues
p. ENVS463: Urban Brownfields
q. ENVS494: Toward Environmental Sustainability on Penn’s
Campus
r. ENVS505: Delaware River Research Seminar
s. ENVS575: Environmental Imaginaries
t. ENVS613: Business and the Environment
u. ENVS617: Innovative Environmental Management
Strategies
v. ENVS627: The Delaware River Basin
w. ENVS634: Closing the Loop on Climate Change
x. ENVS637: Global Water Issues
y. ENVS638: Modeling Geographic Space
z. ENVS643: The Historical, Scientific, and Policy Dimensions
of “Brownfields”
aa. ENVS652: God, Gold, & Green: Themes and Classics in
American Environmental Thought
ab. ENVS667: Urban Sustainable Development: A European
Perspective
2. Biology
a. BIOL140: Humans and the Environment
b. BIOL240: Ecology and Population Biology
c. BIOL456: Issues in Conservation
d. BIOL017: DNA, Diet and Disease
3. Chemistry
a. CHEM012: Environmental Chemistry
4. Geology
a. GEOL100: Intro to Geology
b. GEOL109: Intro to Geotechnical Science
c. GEOL401: Environmental Geology
d. GEOL421: Elemental Cycling in Global Systems
e. GEOL503: Earth Systems and Earth Hazards
f. GEOL511: Geology of Soils
g. GEOL545: Earth Surface Processes
h. GEOL618: Fundamentals of Air Pollution
i. GEOL645: Mineral Resources and the Environment
5. Education
a. EDUC/ENVS421: Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle
Schools
b. EDUC605: Sustainability in Schools
6. Communications
a. COMM300: Public Space, Public Life
7. History
a. HIST321: Environmental History Seminar
8. Political Science
a. PSCI136: Urban Politics in the US
b. PSCI135: Politics of Food
c. PSCI335: Healthy Schools Seminar
9. Science, Technology and Society
a. STSC179: Environmental History Seminar
10. Sociology
a. SOCI111: Health of Populations
b. SOCI553: Field Methods of Social Research: Doing
Ethnographic Research
11. Urban Studies
a. URBS205: Intro to Environmental Design
b. URBS206: Public Environment of Cities: Intro to the Urban
Landscape
c. URBS312: Health in Urban Communities (Health and
Societies)
B. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
1. Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering
a. CBE375: Engineering and the Environment
2. Electrical and Systems Engineering
a. ESE400: Engineering Economics
b. ESE351: Logistics, Manufacturing, and Transportation
c. ESE360: Intro to Environmental Systems
d. ESE555: Cities and Transportation Systems
3. Engineering and Applied Sciences
a.
EAS401: Energy and Its Impacts: Technology, Ecology,
Economics and Sustainability
b. EAS402: Renewable Energy and Its Impacts
4. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
a. MEAM250: Energy Systems, Resources and Technology
C. Wharton
1. Legal Studies
a. LGST215: Environmental Law and Business
b. LGST815: Environmental Management Law and Policy
c. LGST220: International Business Ethics
2. Operations and Information Management
a. OPIM261: Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
3. Business and Public Policy
a. BPUB261: Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
b. BPUB294: Cross-Benefit Analysis
c. BPUB772: Urban Public Policy and Private Economic
Development
4. Insurance and Risk Management
a. INSR205: Risk Management
5. Government Administration
a. GAFL725: Development Projects in Cities
b. GAFL761: Government Relations
c. GAFL569: Politics of Housing and Urban Development
d. GAFL532: Big City Politics: How to Pass Municipal
Legislation
e. GAFL528: Marketing for Non-Profits and Governments
f. GAFL722: Budgeting and Finance Management for Public
and Nonprofit Entitie
6. Organizational Dynamics
a. DYNM634: Process Improvement Tool Seminar
b. DYNM667: Systems Thinking Seminar
7. Real Estate
a. REAL215: Urban Real Estate Economics
8. Economics
a. ECON327: Urban Fiscal Policy
9. Finance
a. FNCE215: Urban Real Estate Economics
D. Nursing
1. Nursing
a. NURS054: Principles of Human Nutrition
b. NURS315: Sociocultural Influences on Health
c. NURS516: International Nutrition: Political Economy of
World Hunger
d. NURS513: Obesity and Society
e. NURS340: Nursing in the Community: Theory
II.
f. NURS823: Designing Interventions to Promote Health and
Reduce Health Disparities
2. Organizational Dynamics of Healthcare Systems
a. DYNM667: Complexity, Sustainability, and Systems Thinking
b. DYNM603: Administrative Decision Making and Problem
Solving
c. NURS650: Health Systems Analysis
d. NURS748: Leadership Development for Health
3. Public Health
a. PUBH530: Environmental Toxicology: Risk Assessment and
Health Effects
E. School of Design
1. Landscape Architecture
a. LARP760: Topics in Ecological Design: Green Roof Systems
b. LARP770: Topics in Ecological Design: Large-Scale
Landscape Reclamation Projec
c. LARP780: Topics in Theory and Design: Case Studies in
Urban Design Lecture
d. LARP780: Topics in Theory and Design: Landscape and
Globalization: Reproducibility and Environmentalisms
2. City Planning
a. CPLN621: Food Systems Lecture
b. CPLN509: Law and Urban Development
c. CPLN540: Intro to City Planning: Past, Present, Future
3. Architecture
a. ARCH734: Architecture and Ecology
b. ARCH756: Sustainable Urban Forms
c. ARCH343: Environmental Systems
d. ARCH812: Field Research
F. Law
1. Law
a. LAW540: International Climate Change
b. LAW777: Environmental Lawyering
c. CPLN509: Law and Urban Development
d. ENVS611: Environmental Law
Fall 2010 Courses
A. College of Arts and Sciences
1. Architecture
a. ARCH255: Sustainability in Action
2. Environmental Studies
a. ENVS400: Saving Our Estuaries: Resources, Regulations and
Recovery
b. ENVS305: Bioremediation
c. ENVS404: Urban Environment: West Philadelphia
d. ENVS494: Toward Sustainability on Penn's Campus
e. ENVS612: Economics and the Environment
f. ENVS533: Research Methods in Environmental Studies
g. ENVS620: How to Quantify Sustainable Practices in
Business and Manufacturing
h. ENVS631: Current EPA Regulatory Practices and Future
Directions
i. ENVS611: Environmental Law
j. ENVS204: Global Climate Change
k. ENVS664: Sustainable Design
3. Urban Studies
a. URBS290: Metropolitan Nature
b. URBS420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty
c. URBS452: Community Economic Development
d. URBS404: Philanthropy and the City
e. URBS451: Politics of Housing and Urban Development
f. URBS457: Globalization and Comparative Urban
Development
4. Biology
a. BIOL414: Advanced Biology
b. BIOL440: Advanced Analysis of Humans and the
Environment
B. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
1. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
a. MEAM250: Energy Systems, Resources and Technology
b. MEAM402: Energy Engineering
2. Engineering and Applied Sciences
a. EAS401: Energy and Its Impacts
C. Wharton
1. Organizational Dynamics
a. DYNM674: Capitalism and Sustainability
b. DYNM619: Organizational Project Management
2. Legal Studies
a. LGST806: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
3. Government Administration
a. GAFL722: Budgeting and Finance Management for Public and
Nonprofit Entities
b. GAFL528: Marketing for Non-Profits and Governments
c. GAFL532: Big City Politics: How to Pass Municipal
Legislation
d. GAFL569: Politics of Housing and Urban Development
e. GAFL761: Government Relations
4. Insurance and Risk Management
a. INSR805: Risk Management
5. Real Estate
a. REAL730: Urban Fiscal Policy
b. REAL772: Urban Public Policy and Private Development
D. School of Design
1.
III.
Architecture
a. ARCH751: Ecology, Technology, and Design
2. City Planning
a. CPLN530: Intro to Land Use
b. CPLN531: Intro to Planning and Policy
c. CPLN641: Green Development
d. CPLN550: Intro to Transportation Planning
e. CPLN677: Land Conservation Finance
3. Landscape Architecture
a. LARP750: Building New Urban Landscapes, Planting Design
and Construction
E. Law School
1. LAW
a. LAW540: International Climate Change
b. LAW686: Natural Resources Law
c. LAW777: Environmental Lawyering
F. Nursing
1. Nursing
a. NURS513: Obesity and Society
b. NURS521: Current Topics in Nutrition
2. Public Health
a. PUBH500: Intro to Public Health
b. PUBH530: Environmental and Occupational Health
Extracurricular
A. Penn Environmental Group (PEG)
http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennenv/
Directors: Christina Dietzen, cdietzen@sas.upenn.edu and Zachary Bell,
zacharyabell@gmail.com
On-Campus contact: Abby Waldorf, awaldorf@sas.upenn.edu
Off-Campus contact: Max Cohen, maxacohen@gmail.com
B. PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research
(Multidisciplinary undergraduate research journal published by the Science and
Technology Wing at UPenn)
http://www.pennscience.org/index.php/journal/index
Co-Editor In Chief: Vishesh Agrawal
Email: vishesha@sas.upenn.edu
C. PennGreen Pre-orientation Program
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/osl/preprog/pgdesc.html
PennGreen provides students with an environmental introduction to Penn and
Philadelphia, and offers them a chance to form relationships with peers
interested in environmental activism. During the program, participants will
meet faculty, learn about campus recycling and LEED building projects, work
at a local urban farm, partake in and learn about how the community
participates in the sustainable food and living movement, embark on an
educational river tour, and more. In addition, students will have a great time
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getting to know Penn, Philadelphia, and like-minded students before NSO
begins.
Earth and Environmental Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board
(EESUAB)
(Peer advising, information on classes, professors, sub-matriculating, etc)
http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/eesuab/
Contact: eesuab@gmail.com
Penn Vegetarian Society
http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennveg/index.html
(plans and implements awareness/peer education campaigns and
academic/social events that relate to our three main areas of concern: personal
health, environmental issues, and animal ethics)
FarmEcology at Penn
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/FarmEcology/
(student-initiated endeavor that is raising awareness and educating Penn's
campus about the benefits of local foods)
Eco-Reps Program (Penn Green Campus Partnership)
http://www.upenn.edu/sustainability/eco-reps.html
(Peer-to-peer educational program designed to help students in Penn's college
houses reduce their environmental footprint through improved environmental
awareness and behavior changes)
CommuniTech
http://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~ctech/cgi-bin/index.php
(Student organization in the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences that
aims to assist neighborhoods in need by supplying them with computers and
teaching technology skills to their residents)
Undergraduate Assembly (UA)
http://pennua.org/
(Represent undergraduate interests to the administration, faculty, and all other
constituent groups - work on sustainability initiatives such as off campus
recycling and socially responsible investing)
Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GASPA)
http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/
(Government for graduate and professional students, interacting regularly with
the President, Provost, Board of Trustees, and other University officials - part
of Penn's Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee)
Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee
http://www.upenn.edu/sustainability/our_history.html
(Cross-campus collaboration that included a representative group of faculty,
staff, and students to advise the President on environmental sustainability
issues)
IGEL: Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership
http://environment.wharton.upenn.edu/
(Penn/Wharton faculty, in consultation with business, NGO, and government
representatives - discuss and research selected topics concerning business and
the natural environment)
M. Wharton Energy Network
http://www.whartonenergy.com/index.html
(Alumni club focused on alumni involved, or interested, in the cleantech and
energy industries)
N. Wharton Energy Club
http://www.whartonenergyclub.com/
(Hub for energy interest at The Wharton School - enhances recruiting into the
energy industry and hope to establish Wharton as a thought leader in the sector)
O. College Houses and Academic Services (CHAS)
http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/index.asp
(provide supportive residential communities for the education of undergraduate
students: PennMoves (annual move-out re-use drive), hand out compact
fluorescent light bulbs, etc)
P. Penn Engineering Student Activities Council (ESAC)
http://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~esac/wiki/
(Group oversees all student groups at Penn Engineering)
Q. Environmental Planning and Ecological Design Club (EPED)
http://www.design.upenn.edu/current-students/student-groups-andorganizations
(Student group that engages with community and peers in a cross-disciplinary
exploration of policy and design solutions to environmental challenges - raises
awareness and inspire action toward economic, social, and ecological
sustainability)
R. Penn Design Student Council
http://www.design.upenn.edu/student_council/index.html
S. Penn Institute for Urban Research
http://www.upenn.edu/penniur/about.shtml
(Dedicated to fostering increased understanding of cities and developing new
knowledge bases that will be vital in charting the course of local national and
international urbanization)
T. Penn Cartographic Modeling Lab
http://cml.upenn.edu/
(Geographic Information Systems technology)
IV. Institutional
A. Penn Dining Services
http://www.cafebonappetit.com/penn/
(Bon Appetit, Recyclemania, etc)
B. Green Campus Partnership
http://www.upenn.edu/sustainability/index.html
(Dedicated to promoting a sustainable culture and implementing
environmentally-conscious policies)
Contact: sustainability@upenn.edu
C. Facilities and Real Estate Services
http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/index.php
"Sustainable Practices" (Energy Management, Waste and Recycling,
Collaborative Efforts, Built Environment)
D. Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/index.php
(Supports Academically-Based Community Service Classes - aims to bring
about community improvement, including in schools and neighborhoods, while
using problem-oriented research and teaching and service learning, to
emphasize student and faculty reflection on the service experience)
E. Department of Earth and Environmental Studies
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/index.html
-Undergraduate Program: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/u_progs.html
-Institute for Environmental Studies (faculty):
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/ies.html
-Masters in Environmental Studies (MES):
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/graduate/mes/
-Masters of Science in Applied Geosciences (MSAG):
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/graduate/msag/
F. UCGreen
http://www.ucgreen.org/
(Promote, coordinate, and support volunteer community greening in University
City, West/Southwest Philadelphia neighborhoods - build community, endorse
sustainable practices, and champion environmental stewardship)
G. PennPraxis
http://www.design.upenn.edu/pennpraxis/
(Faculty and students - test ideas and apply theories through practical projects)
V. ARCH255: Sustainability In Action
A. Lecture Topics
1. Introduction to course design and intent
2.
Concept of Sustainability: Definitions and Debates
3.
Practice of Sustainability: Greenworks Philadelphia
4.
System Capacity: Global Environment
5.
System Capacity: Local Environment
6.
System Capacity: Global Equity
7.
System Capacity: Local Equity
8.
System Capacity: Global Economy
9.
System Capacity: Local Economy
10.
Carrying Capacity: Energy Management
11.
Carrying Capacity: Human Settlements
12.
Carrying Capacity: Policy Formation
B. Recitations
1. Residential Energy Efficiency in University City
2.
Energy Strategy for Business in University City
3.
Green Buildings and Innovation
4.
Institutional Tree Planting Campaign
5.
Tree Planting Outreach to Neighborhoods
6.
Urban Agriculture in High Schools
7.
Community Attitudes on Sustainability
8.
Managing Water in West Philadelphia
9.
Expanding Neighborhood Recycling (Reducing Waste,
Empowering Communities)
10.
Green Transportation Alternatives