Sustainability Courses

UWM offers a variety of sustainability related courses across disciplines. Some courses focus directly on core principles of sustainability where as others support themes adjacent to sustainability or focus on sustainability challenges*.

Courses are subject to change. This list does not constitute as academic advising. Please consult your advisor to see how you can incorporate these sustainability courses into your academics.

AFRIC 100- Black Reality: African-American Society:
This course is an introduction to key concepts, structures, and institutions in African – American society. Our goal is to critically evaluate the events, issues, concepts, institutions that have helped shape the reality of African Americans and their respective communities.
AFRIC 125- Economics Black Community:
A survey of key economic principles, and elements that structure economic behavior in the black community. African-American people make less than anyone else, their unemployment rates are much higher than anyone else, they face far more unemployment with the downturn of the economy than other racial and ethnic groups and are more likely to encounter institutional discrimination and prejudice in the labor market.
AFRIC 228- Black Political Economy:
Understand economic, political, and social issues that affect minority populations. 2. Understand the different approaches for analyzing economic inequality among racial groups. Analyze policies designed to measure economic opportunities for disadvantaged minorities. Evaluate various strategies to improve economic opportunities for disadvantaged minorities. Political economy tends to look at the effect of politics on the economy and of the economy on politics. This course will assess and evaluate the contemporary influence of race in each of these domains while also exploring their historical antecedents.
AFRIC 322/322G- Order/Disorder-Social Justice:
This course examines how people of African descent have been impacted by and resisted institutions of power and inequality. Special attention will be given to how Black people have sought social and political inclusion, as well as equal access to resources, citizenship, and other human rights.

AIS 474- Ethnobotany: An Ojibwe Look at Spring Plants
Collection, identification, ecology, and utilization of Wisconsin plants for food, medicine, fibers, and construction. Native American cosmology and uses and perspectives in Wisconsin tribal areas emphasized.

ANTHRO 439/439G- Culture and Global Health:
This course explores contemporary global health through the lens of cultural anthropology and related social sciences. Through in-depth ethnographic case studies, students will analyze local communities’ response to globally-directed intervention into disease.

ARCH 100- Architectural Making I:
This course is designed to introduce you to the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Architecture Program/curriculum, student resources within SARUP, and architecture as a profession. Environmental responsibility-All projects shall be designed to engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuels, and to convey an ethical position in regard to the use of non-renewable materials and environmental health. Lectures, focus on Aesthetics of Sustainability and Eco Literacy.
ARCH 723G- Fundamentals-Ecological Architecture:
Current sustainability dialogues offer a wide range of interpretations and viewpoints about what sustainability is and what its goals ought to be. As architects not only do we need to address issues of resource use and efficiencies, we also have a responsibility to confront the culture of everyday life within our designs. This course will explore architecture’s ability to address environmental concerns through a variety of lenses.

ART 100- American Art and Culture:
Appreciation of North American art through study of diverse cultural traditions including African-American, Native-American, Latino-American, Asian-American and European-American expressive practices.
ART 150- Multicultural America:
This class will examine the ways in which racial and ethnic difference has been visualized in the United States. The class will examine how images naturalize structural patterns of discrimination, as well as how they may be used to confront received notions regarding diversity.
ART 306- Introduction to Community Art:
Introduction to Community Art is designed to provide a framework for students interested in social engagement, environmental issues, community building, public art, and place making. The course covers a variety of strategies for engaging communities through art and focuses on three areas: enriching community life, affirming cultural identity, and pursuing social and environmental justice goals.
ART 405/405G- Product Realization:
This interdisciplinary course (engineering and art students) considers the diverse aspects of the product realization process. Project topics include: accessibility, hydroponics, outdoor environments. Topic considerations include environmental impact, customer base. Topics will vary by year due to client interest.
ART 406/406G- Community Arts II:
Intermediate study of community arts as a tool for enriching community life, affirming cultural identity, and pursuing political and social justice goals.

ATM SCI 100- Survey of Meteorology:
Concepts and principles of meteorology; cyclones, fronts, thunderstorms, tornadoes, air pollution, and climate. Interpretation of weather maps, charts, and forecasts.
ATM SCI 250- Introduction-Climate Science:
Fundamentals of climate system’s inner workings and analysis methods. Climate subsystems and feedbacks, energy balance of the Earth, climates of the past, global warming, internal variability and predictability of climate, dynamical climate models, statistical approaches.
ATM SCI 480/480G- The General Circulation and Climate Dynamics:
Historical overview, the zonally symmetric circulation, momentum, heat and water budgets, stationary waves, the El Nino Southern oscillation, global warming, interpentadal variability in the North Atlantic.

BIO SCI 104- Plants in Today’s World:
Introduction to major plant groups; principles of structure and function, ecology, and gardening. To understand the basic structures and functions of plants and develop an appreciation for the wide range of economic services provided by plants, food, fiber, and medicines. To enhance awareness of contemporary global environmental and conservation issues, particularly as these issues are related to plants, climate change, energy resources, genetically modified organisms, and biodiversity.
BIO SCI 150- Foundations-Biological Sci I:
History of Life on Earth, Organisms and environment, community ecology, global ecosystems, microbial ecology. The course is one of the Introductory Science courses required for the Bachelor of Arts-Global Studies–Global Sustainability Track.
BIO SCI 310- General Ecology:
Complex interrelationships between organisms and their environment. Physiological and behavioral adaptations, populations, biotic communities, ecosystems.
BIO SCI 505/505G- Conservation Biology:
Genetic and ecological approaches to the conservation of biological diversity. Topics include biology of rare plants and animals, design of nature reserves, and restoration ecology.

BUS ADM 100- Introduction to Business:
This course focuses on the nature and functions of business, the culture of the business world and business education, and the skills to be successful in both. The course encourages students to address ethical and socially responsible behavior through a volunteer Service Learning project trough the Student Experience and Talent (SET).
BUS ADM 200- Business and Society:
Integrated understanding of sources of competitive/strategic advantage derived from corporate citizenship in the public policy, social, economics, and ecological environments.
BUS ADM 393- Business Ethics, Responsibility & Sustainability:
Ethical dimensions of economy, management decision-making, and corporate social responsibility. Ethical framework for assessment of business practices. Includes case discussions.
BUS ADM 441- Diversity in Organizations:
Conceptual and experiential understanding of cultural values and practices among diverse groups in organizations. Addresses institutional and personal discrimination, stereotyping and prejudice.
BUS MGMT 707G- Info Tech Management in International Business:
Management of information technology including the role of enterprise systems; business intelligence, mining, & analytics; virtual teams and offshoring; security; and ethical/privacy issues including sustainability and green IT in the globally connected world.

CIV ENG 311- Intro Energy, Environmental &Sustainability:
Energy system and resources, environmental system and resources, global climate change, life cycle assessment, green chemistry and materials, sustainable technologies.
CIV ENG 411/411G- Principles-Water Resources Design:
Principles of hydraulics; steady and non-steady flow in closed conduits and open channels; hydraulic design of structures, surge tanks; hydraulic model studies.
CIV ENG 413/413G- Environmental Engineering:
Water pollution and control; hazardous substances and risk assessment; water and wastewater treatment systems; air-pollution and emission control; solid wastes; design of treatment facilities.
CIV ENG 555- Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies:
Sustainable construction materials and methodologies related to commercial construction, LEED/Green certifications, material selection.
CIV ENG 590/590G- Urban Transportation Planning:
Techniques used to plan urban transportation systems; data collection, trip generation, trip distribution, factors underlying the choice of mode, traffic assignment, modeling and evaluation techniques. Weekly topics include: sustainable transportation planning, intelligent transportation systems, and statistical methods in transportation planning.

COMPLIT 233- Literature and Film: Global Eco-Crisis:
Climate change and environmental disaster are emergent topics of interest not only in scientific and political debates but also in literary and cinematic traditions. In fact, novels, memoirs, short stories, comic books, and documentary and fiction films use a wide range of narrative tropes and carefully curated images to help us better imagine the barely perceptible forms of ecological degradation that have been in the making for centuries. This online, asynchronous course gives students an overview of the most powerful stories on page and screen from around the world that chart the unpredictable co-evolutions of the human being and the machine.

COMP SCI 395- Social, Professional, & Ethical Issues:
The social, professional and ethical issues that arise in the context of professional computing. Topics include: environmental and social ramifications of computing, privacy, historic development (or lack) of legal frameworks.

CES 210- Intro to Conservation and Environmental Science:
Relations between human populations and resource depletion, pollution and ecosystem disturbance; search for solutions. Discussion section includes some community activities with environmental organization.
CES 390- Changing Climate: A Conservation and Sustainability Approach:
Students explore the challenges of the past alongside current science, policy, and action to discover the opportunities emerging in our global future. International non-governmental organizations and empirical evidence support effective solutions.
CES 515/515G- Environmental Law: Natural Resource Managers:
The purpose of the class is to introduce students to the environmental regulations that they will be involved with in the field of natural resource management. Regulations that will be covered will include; the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

CURRINS 300- Intro to Teaching-Colloq/Field:
Introduction to the teaching profession and teaching in urban schools. Provides an overview of educational, multicultural, social, economic, and political issues that influence urban schools.

ECON 103- Principles of Microeconomics:
Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion.
ECON 248- Economics of Discrimination:
Use of economic theory to examine the history, current status, and policies regarding various minority groups in the United States. Applications include education, housing, jobs. Students will be introduced to economic theories of poverty and discrimination, ways to measure each (and the problems associated with these measures), and a description of the success and failures of public policies designed to curtail discrimination in the US.
ECON 328- Environmental Economics:
This is an introductory course in environmental economics. The course is designed to give you an understanding of current environmental issues, and the role of markets and governments in the regulation of these issues. We will focus on issues related to air quality, climate change, fisheries, water, depletable fossil fuels, energy transitions, and sustainable development. The objectives of this course are two fold. First, to familiarize you with a set of issues and questions that are central to environmental economics, and that are also exciting and important current issues. And, second, to develop economic tools to address important problems in environmental economics.
ECON 353- Economic Development:
Examination of determinants of growth, modernization, poverty, and inequality in developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Analysis of development strategies.
ECON 775G- Economic Development-Policy:
This course surveys major themes in economics of development with an emphasis toward policy. The themes of the course begins with factual development experience from key developing regions, moving to growth diagnostics, a new and important area of inquiry that differs radically from model based approaches. It then moves onto capital and development, stressing the role of finance capital, but also including optional readings on human man capital (both education and health). It then moves onto trade and development, followed by a section on development and the environment . The next key area of focus is on the sources of underdevelopment with a focus on multiple equilibria and on anti-poverty policies. A final area that would be covered only if time allows is that of migration and development.

ED POL 113- The Milwaukee Community:
An overview of communities and neighborhood groups in Milwaukee. This course will provide students with an overview of the Milwaukee community with a focus on the historical, economic, political, cultural and racial events that have shaped Milwaukee. Special attention will be paid to the city’s unique Socialist history, the city’s role in the US civil rights movement and the effects of immigration and different racial, ethnic and social groups on urban history.
ED POL 114- Community Problems:
This course provides an introduction to social problems that influence our society at the community level. As a survey course, weekly topics include (but are not limited by) Wealth and Poverty, Racial and Ethnic Inequality, Gender and Age Inequality, the Criminal Justice System, Health Care, Family and Culture, and the intersection of Community and Global Economics. This course will provide opportunities to identify and discuss community problems, their components, how these problems are culturally reinforced, and how individuals and groups work to mitigate these problems.
ED POL 203- Communities/Neighborhoods in America:
This course reviews the historical, social, economic, and demographic trends across various cities and neighborhoods in the U.S. Students will also review various neighborhood initiatives designed to improve communities and cities. Topics include social environment, gentrification and public health, community improvement, social justice.
ED POL 610/610G- Reproduction of Minoritized Communities:
This course addresses the theories of causes and consequences of social inequality and stratification as well as examines the ways in which race, gender and class shape the institutions of education. The aim of this course is to provide students a thorough grounding in the major theories, concepts and empirical research in inequality and stratification and to provide students opportunities to analyze how people’s location (via race, gender, and class) interact with institutions, organizations, and cultures to shape personal, social, and community outcomes and maintain inequalities.

ENGLISH 150- Multicultural America:
In this course, we will examine a few of the cultures that contributed to the making of America. This class is essentially historical, but one of the aims of this class is to connect this history to our current understanding of “race,” culture, gender, class, and other important areas. Identify the major cultural groups in American history and discuss their distinct contributions and principal conflicts, especially as these illustrate the impact of inequalities of access, resources, wealth, and/or justice.
ENGLISH 310- Writing, Speaking, and Technoscience in the 21st Century:
Our country (and our planet) face an increasingly complex set of challenges regarding our environment and quality of life. Many of these challenges can be addressed through science and technology. But how do we frame and address complex problems in a public setting? Can we communicate the values and uses of science and technology when problems are characterized by trade-offs rather than simple solutions? This course will introduce students to the theories and practices of communicating about science and technology.

ETHNIC 101- Multi-Racial American Cultures:
Course Objectives: Gain an understanding of Ethnic Studies as an academic discipline, its history, and its
connection with social movements, understand what it means to say that race and ethnicity are socially and historically
constructed categories that have changed over time, learn about intersectionality, and about how working-class black and indigenous women
of color have historically responded to multiple and intersecting forms of oppression, learn about racial capitalism, its impact on racial ideologies and hierarchies, and its implications for social movements.
ETHNIC 255- Migration and Gender: Starbucks, Sex Trafficking, and Nannies:
This class will attempt to answer these difficult questions by focusing on why women cross borders to find work, sometimes using smugglers to help them reach their destination, and the gains and losses they experience. Through this analysis of the globalized female worker, we will learn how classic female duties such as caring for the home and family have been commodified into paid work, and study how this shift is reflective of larger demographic changes in the country at large. Furthermore, we will understand how patterns of migration, immigration, and diaspora emerge from economic and social changes, including how such patterns get expressed in the labor markets and service sector.
ENTHIC 325- Gender, Race & Ethnicity in MKE:
How has Milwaukee, a city well known for its celebrations of ethnic identities, remained one of the most segregated urban areas in the United States even as it moves forward in the 21st century? How have migrants to the area carved an identity that allowed them to partake in the political life of the city? And when denied access to those rights, how have marginalized ethno-racial communities fought for a voice? This course seeks to address these questions by examining the experience of numerous groups that make up Milwaukee.

FILM 150- Multicultural America:
In this course, we will examine a few of the cultures that contributed to the making of America. This class is essentially historical, but one of the aims of this class is to connect this history to our current understanding of “race,” culture, gender, class, and other important areas. Identify the major cultural groups in American history and discuss their distinct contributions and principal conflicts, especially as these illustrate the impact of inequalities of access, resources, wealth, and/or justice.

FRSHWTR 101- Elements of Water:
The most important natural resource on Earth is freshwater. This course will address the importance of water in biological, ecological, physical, climate and economic systems, and the consequences of disrupting the natural water cycle.
FRSHWTR 392- Water, Energy, Food, & Climate:
Identify social and environmental dimensions of environmental systems at their interlinkages. Analyze policy and economic aspects of sustainability as it relates to water and related environmental issues such as climate, energy, and food.
FRSHWTR 490- Sustainable Design for Community Development:
Transdisciplinary students will work on sustainable projects and designs to address complex societal problems that require consideration of economy, environment, politics, and technology that leverage community-based knowledge.
FRSHWTR 510/510G- Econ, Policy & Management of Water:
The distribution of vital water resources is interdependent with prosperity, power asymmetry, geography, development, and sustainability. As water resources are challenged by an increasing number of demands, competing interests, and diminishing quality and quantity, we are faced with decisions about how to manage the resources. Topics include water-use efficiency, food security, energy, commodification, infrastructure, elasticity, public health, environmental discrimination, globalization, technology, and climate change.
FRSHWTR 506/506G- Environmental Health of Freshwater Ecosystems:
The influences of human-induced environmental change on the health of freshwater ecosystems and humans who interact with these systems.

GEOG 105- Intro to Human Geography:
How humans interact with and alter the Earth through cultural, political, and economic processes; how these processes are dependent on and affect Earth’s natural resources.
GEOG 110- The World: Peoples and Regions:
This course focuses on human-environment interactions. A goal of this course is to apply geographic concepts to identify and describe relationships between people and places, and to think geographically and critically about yourself and your place in the world. This course will also consider the role of nationalisms in globalization processes, and how ideas about regions even shape our thinking about environmental and population issues.
GEOG 120- Our Physical Environment:
Characteristics and significance of world land form, climate, soils, vegetation, and mineral and water resources. Our Physical Environment is an introductory physical geography course that covers the essentials of Earth’s physical processes occurring in the four spheres that make up the Earth system (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere). The processes occurring in each of these interconnected spheres are important because they form the physical environment in which we live. Example topics include: climate change, atmospheric energy and global temperatures, ecosystems and soils, biomes, creation of various landforms and soils. Particular emphasis will be given to the energy that drives all the processes and human impacts resulting from the processes.
GEOG 125- Intro to Environmental Geography:
The Earth’s environment is both complex and interconnected, providing all the life support requirements essential for human existence. A growing human population puts pressure on limited natural resources and generates substantial amounts of waste that end up in the air, water and soil. During this course we will examine how the environment is impacted by human activity in different geographical regions and how the environment responds. We will explore the impact of human activity both at a local level, e.g., by looking at water pollution in the Milwaukee River and at a global level through climate change.
GEOG 304- Human Impact on Environment:
Geographical and temporal distribution of human effects on land and resources; historical background of human concern for deleterious effects of impacts on environments.
GEOG310- General Climatology:
This course examines global patterns of climate and the processes that shape them. This course studies past climates, climate change mechanisms, and likely future climate.
GEOG 350- Conservation Natural Resources:
Analysis of environmental ethics; the positive and negative consequences of resource development with emphasis on strategies designed to resolve environmental conflicts.
GEOG 564/564G- Urban Environmental Change and Social Justice:
Spatial aspects of contributors to urban environmental change affecting social justice. Inequitable distribution of environmental risks and benefits; challenge of developing policies.

GEO SCI 106- The Earth Environment:
The Earth and its environment; emphasis on the interrelationships of humans with the Earth’s processes and responses. Topics include: streams and flooding, soil resources, water resources, alternative energy, pollution and waste management, global climate change.
GEO SCI 150- Introduction to Ocean Sciences:
This class is about Earth’s oceans, which cover approximately 75% of Earth’s surface. The oceans play a huge role in our water and climate cycles, as well as impact biology and solid Earth systems. Many of the concepts that we will discuss also have direct bearing on large lakes, like our very own Lake Michigan. Topics include: the water planet, the oceans and climate disruption, ocean structure and the atmosphere.
GEO SCI 400/400G- Water Quality:
Water availability and water quality in surface and subsurface water bodies; management of water as a resource.

GLOBAL 201- Intro to Global Studies II: Economics & Environment:
Link between International trade and environmental change; conditions related to global economy; political impact of environmental change; human dimensions of international trade and environmental change.
GLOBAL 203- Intro to Peace & Conflict Studies:
This class will introduce theoretical perspectives on peace and conflict. We will discuss constructive and destructive conflict and their implications on different, but overlapping, realms of human existence, including internal, interpersonal, societal, and environmental levels. We will evaluate the fundamentals of nonviolent social change, and how peace manifests in our interpersonal relationships, in communities, and through national and international issues.

HCA 867G- Global Population Health Management:
A comprehensive overview of healthcare access and delivery in 11 developing and industrialized countries. An integrated approach and synthesis-based organizational framework is explored to develop leadership strategies for analysis and envision creative solutions to current healthcare crises.

HS 101- Intro to Health & Disease:
This survey course provides an introduction to the physiological, environmental, genetic, social, cultural, economic, political, and personal factors that affect health and health care.
HS 102- Healthcare Delivery in U.S.:
The course is an introduction to healthcare delivery focusing on consumers, providers, organization, financing, quality and utilization of services, health planning, and political and governmental impacts.
HS 351- Sociological Aspects-Health and Human Movement:
This course is premised on the fundamental belief that the professional delivery of health and health-related human services should be informed by scholarly inquiry and scientific research. Drawing from such work, this course provides you with a sociological examination of physical activity and health, focusing on social inequality constructs including race, gender, class, age, physical disability.

HIST 150- Multicultural America:
In this course, we will examine a few of the cultures that contributed to the making of America. This class is essentially historical, but one of the aims of this class is to connect this history to our current understanding of “race,” culture, gender, class, and other important areas. Identify the major cultural groups in American history and discuss their distinct contributions and principal conflicts, especially as these illustrate the impact of inequalities of access, resources, wealth, and/or justice.
HIST 229- History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States:
This course studies race and ethnicity as factors in American science and medicine. It explores the ways in which racial attitudes and the canging concept of “race” have affected not only the makeup of the scientific and medical communities but even the formulation and proof of scientific theories.
HIST 971- Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems:
Historical analysis of the current problems of housing, race relations, the powers and functions of municipal government, law enforcement, and city planning in the United States. This course examines how historians understand urban problems. Cities have been described as consisting of “clusters of problems,” and this course aims to unpack some of those specific problems with an eye toward understanding the history of cities more broadly.

INFOST 120- Information Technology Ethics:
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the current ethical issues in information and communication technology (ICT) use. The course will discuss the ethical responsibilities of IT professionals, and promote the critical examination and responsible use of ICT. Course topics include: information justice, money & e-waste, controlling content, privacy, and surveillance.

MATLENG 201- Engineering Materials:
This course is designed to provide students with fundamental knowledge about the processing, structure, and properties of engineering materials and their applications. Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to make intelligent judgments relative to the most desirable role materials should play in modern social, ecological, and economic trends.

MECH ENG 405/405G- Product Realization:
This interdisciplinary course (engineering and art students) considers the diverse aspects of the product realization process. Project topics include: accessibility, hydroponics, outdoor environments. Topic considerations include environmental impact, customer base. Topics will vary by year due to client interest

NURS 101- Cultural Diversity in Health Care:
Enables students to conceptualize cultural diversity as a basic component of American society with implications for sensitivity and respect in health promotion and human relations. The purpose of this course is to increase sensitivity to and knowledge about culturally diverse populations in America. Topics include: global health and culturally informed care, determinants of health and health equity, cultural humility, competency, and safety, and health communication.
NURS 803G- Health Policy:
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the concepts and tools of health policy development and the role of research and activism, introducing the skills necessary to be an effective policy analyst/policy advocate.

NUTR 241- Why We Eat What We Eat: An Ecological Approach:
Examination of food choice and eating behavior using a multilevel, social ecological perspective. Nutrition and health implications will be discussed.

PEACEST 203- Intro to Peace & Conflict Studies:
This class will introduce theoretical perspectives on peace and conflict. We will discuss constructive and destructive conflict and their implications on different, but overlapping, realms of human existence, including internal, interpersonal, societal, and environmental levels. We will evaluate the fundamentals of nonviolent social change, and how peace manifests in our interpersonal relationships, in communities, and through national and international issues.

PHILOS 337- Environmental Ethics:
The course will cover major theories of environmental ethics and their practical applications. Theoretical approaches to environmental ethics include: Animal rights, the Land Ethic; deep ecology; social ecology; ecofeminism; and rethinking the good life. This will include discussions about the moral value of non-human life and nature; human responsibility to the environment; and various contemporary moral issues related to the environment including: wildlife conservation; poverty as an environmental problem; the ecology of property rights; cost-benefit analysis and environmental policy; and environmental activism.

POL SCI 175- Intro International Relations:
This introductory course will provide students with a general overview of the field of international relations. We will discuss the basis of key approaches and perspectives, determine the role and interests of various actors, and review pressing topics, such as power, international conflict, terrorism, global trade, development, and environmental concerns, in the field of international relations. The objective of the course is for students to understand why and how actors interact with one another in the international arena and how this not only affects those actors involved, but the world itself. Topics include climate change, international development and the environment.

PSYCH 578/578G- Psychology of Race, Ethnicity, and Health:
In this course, students will explore ways in which race and ethnicity are related to mental health in the
United States using a mostly interactive model. Specifically, we will consider how the unique historical and
social experiences of U.S. minority groups (i.e., Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or BIPOC) link to their mental health and health care utilization.

PH 101- Introduction to Public Health:
Introduction to history, science and philosophy of Public Health including scientific research, policy development and health education.
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to understand the determinants of health from a global perspective, including social, cultural, behavioral, biological, environmental, and economic factors.
PH 142- Exploring Global Environmental Health:
Introduction to the sciences underpinning the study and response to infectious, chemical, and physical environmental threats to human health within a global public health framework.
PH 303- Climate Change, Environmental & Human Health:
Acquire knowledge about and be able to identify ways in which climate change adversely affects human health globally, nationally and locally.|Prereq: soph st; or cons instr.
PH 346- Environmental Health & Disease:
Investigates how the environment and/or environmental factors impact human health and population health with an emphasis on the developmental origins of disease.
PH 703G- Environmental Health Sciences:
Survey of effects environment has on humans, and effects humans have on environment, emphasis on toxicology and infectious disease.
PH 706G- Perspectives on Community & Behavioral Health:
An ecological / systems approach to the study of the behavioral, social, cultural, and community contextual factors related to individual and population health and health disparities over the life course. Research and practice in this area contributes to the development, administration and evaluation of programs and policies in public health and health services to promote and sustain healthy environments and healthy lives of individuals and populations.
PH 743G- Environmental Risk Assessment:
Risk assessment practices from an environmental health perspective, complexities and challenges of regulation, management, and mitigation of risks for both human and ecosystem health.

SOC WRK 100- Introduction to Social Work:
A survey course focused on the development of human service institutions and occupations. Apply understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for human rights at the individual and system levels
SOC WRK 630/630 G- Families and Poverty:
Description of families in poverty and analysis of historical and contemporary national and state policies aimed at reducing poverty.
SOC WRK 665/665G- Cultural Diversity and Social Work:
Emphasis on culture, race and ethnicity, theories of prejudice, and racial minority groups, and the politics of human services in multicultural society.
SOC WRK 750G Social Welfare Policy Development and Implementation:
Examination of policy development, implementation, and models of analysis that describe and provide analytical guides for determining the efficacy of public policy in addressing human needs.

SOCIOL 102- Solving Social Problems:
Examines problems relating to social inequality, troubled institutions, social control and social change. Explains how sociological theories can address these problems and improve communities.
SOCIOL 224- Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.:
Examines racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. in historical and contemporary contexts. Addresses racial inequality and American institutions (such as education, employment, healthcare, criminal justice, housing, and the environment).
SOCIOL 233- Social Inequality in the U.S.:
A survey of intersecting inequalities, examining race, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability, and other identities. Introduction to competing stratification theories.
SOCIOL 377- Urbanism and Urbanization:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the process of urbanization and the nature of urban society. Over the course of the semester, in addition to examining early and contemporary urban theorists, we will address racial and class polarization in cities, urban place-making and cultural spaces, globalization and urban political economy, urban renaissance and gentrification, urban sprawl and sustainable development, among other topics, and the implications of each for the urban form.

MSP 760G- Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Sustainability:
Guided by principles of ecological systems, environmental policy and global sustainability, students explore how systems view, data, and mapping can grow insight and strengthen analysis.

THEATRE 150- Multicultural America:
In this course, we will examine a few of the cultures that contributed to the making of America. This class is essentially historical, but one of the aims of this class is to connect this history to our current understanding of “race,” culture, gender, class, and other important areas. Identify the major cultural groups in American history and discuss their distinct contributions and principal conflicts, especially as these illustrate the impact of inequalities of access, resources, wealth, and/or justice.

URBPLAN 140- Issues in Contemporary Urban Planning:
To examine issues that cities are working on, including sustainability, transportation, economic development, and housing, and learn how planners address these.
URBPLAN 316- Planning for the Great Cities of America:
In this course, we will explore and analyze these questions through critical lenses. We will also examine the history of cities and how planning, design, policy and economic interests influence their development –for better or worse. The course will also incorporate current topics influencing cities including access to resources, sustainability, social justice, identity, character and quality of life.
URBPLAN 350- Social Justice, Urban Planning and the New Urban America:
Examination of historical, sociological, economic and political relationships that impact urban communities. Community and social justice issues are addressed from a planning perspective.
URBPLAN 651/651G- Land Use Planning Practice:
The purpose of this course is to explain the background and day to day activities, opportunities and constraints faced by municipal land use planning departments. The course will combine everyday challenges, constraints and strategies used by both municipal planning departments. The course will also briefly explore the ways that municipal officials and private developers interact. This requires addressing a variety of different topics, including economics, financial implementation, history, social realities, organizational realities & structures, policies (including sustainability), and legislation considerations.
URBPLAN 560/560G Public Sector Influence on Real Estate Development:
Introduction to contemporary trends in urban redevelopment; focus on planning and development techniques used to revitalize declining urban areas.This course will focus on how public sector incentives and regulations impact real estate development and how planners interact with developers throughout the development process to achieve land use goals.
URBPLAN 672/772G Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation:
Current practices in pedestrian and bicycle transportation, including institutional frameworks, benefits, safety, facility design, network development, demand estimation, suitability assessment, and performance measurement.
URNPLAN 880G- Urban Sustainability:
Urban sustainable challenges and opportunities that impact the built environment. Includes review of traditional and innovative sustainable practices and regulations.

URB STD 150- Multicultural America:
In this course, we will examine a few of the cultures that contributed to the making of America. This class is essentially historical, but one of the aims of this class is to connect this history to our current understanding of “race,” culture, gender, class, and other important areas. Identify the major cultural groups in American history and discuss their distinct contributions and principal conflicts, especially as these illustrate the impact of inequalities of access, resources, wealth, and/or justice.
URB STD 250- Exploring the Urban Environment:
The nature of the city, the processes that effect change, and the future of the city. This course will address and examine: the interconnected influence of urbanization on social, political, economic, environmental and cultural spheres of human life.
URB STD 360- Perspectives on Urban Scene:
Topics related to the structure, growth, and change of the urban environment. This course offers the opportunity to review, discuss, and understand sustainable development through academic readings, book chapters, and case studies, with the integration of the ReFresh Milwaukee Plan (City of Milwaukee Sustainability Plan 2013-2023).
URB STD 377- Urbanism and Urbanization:
Urban sustainable challenges and opportunities that impact the built environment. Includes review of traditional and innovative sustainable practices and regulations.

WGS 200- Intro to WGS-Social Science:
This course serves as an introduction to the broad discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS). In this course, we will center gender as a category of analysis for interrogating systems of power, including sexism, racism, heterosexism, ableism, and capitalism. The central aim of the course is introduce different ways to think critically about lived experiences and how interlocking social systems shape us all. Course sections include: power, privilege, and oppression; the social construction of gender, feminism, disability justice, race and feminisms, indigeneity and feminisms (with a focus on indigenous leaders such as LaDonna Brave Bull Allard and Winona LaDuke who champion indigenous rights, food sovereignty, and environmental justice).

UWS NSG 365- Current Topics of Nursing: Global Health, Ethics and Human Rights:
This course will explore the ethics and human rights issues related to disparities in financial, educational, technological, environmental, and political resources available to support healthy populations across the globe.

*Sustainability challenge- an issue or situation that threatens or undermines ecological integrity, racial equity and social justice, or the ability of future generations to meet their needs (e.g., biodiversity loss, poverty and inequality, and climate change), OR a goal or objective that contributes to the resolution of such an issue or situation (e.g., ecosystem health, universal human rights, and renewable energy generation). These challenges based off the targets embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (STARS® Technical Manual v3.0, 2025)