Chatting with Sony yesterday, it's clear that engineers have no idea what classes environmental studies offers, and vice versa. It's also probably true (though debatable?) that each set taking a class or two in the other's area would be beneficial for all involved.

Engineering classes:
CEE 1210/2210: Engineering and Sustainable Development
CEE 1209/2209: Life Cycle Assessment
CEE 1217/2217: Green Buildings: Design and Construction (LEED Centered)
CEE 1218/2218: Design for Environment (Both in theory and in client-based projects)

If someone could post a list of relevant ES classes (or more engineering classes) that would be great.

would it be possible for non engineering students to take any of these classes? Please tell me i dont need any math thnx

It is possible for non-engineers to take these classes, you just need permission from the appropriate professor.
In terms of math, any engineering class presumes that you are at least not afraid of numbers and math, but I don't believe that any of the above require anything beyond algebra. Are you that scared of math?

terrified. actually i can handle most algebra and trigonometry, anything above that would be a problem and the mere mention of calculus leaves me cowering in the corner

*Bump* as part of a new FtP campaign to actually get a sustainability gen-ed.

For a starting list of possible classes, see http://www.pitt.edu/~esweb/courses/electives.html

Current plan is to develop a list of 5ish possible pre-reqs for a course to meet a sustainability gen-ed requirement, out of which a course should meet 3ish.

Current list of possibilities:
-Definitions of sustainability
-Global Warming
-Specific Issues:
Sustainability & Food
Mining/Drilling
Energy
-Science of the environment
-Environmental impacts/ Life Cycle

For precedents at other universities which have implemented sustainability/environmental/aware citizens requirements, these are some good starting documents:
http://ncseonline.org/efs/DebraRowe.pdf

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... 51jhuo8b5Q

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/04/05 ... quirement/

http://www.csuchico.edu/ge/students/sus ... y_ge.shtml

There's also the study abroad class "Energy Tomorrow," although that one is strictly for engineering students only...and significantly more expensive than all the other classes.

I don't think most engineers even know what sustainability classes they can get unless they happen to be in Civi/Enviro Engineering. Back in the day when I was looking for classes to take, it was sort of confusing.

Eva and I have perused the A&S Course catalog for courses that could potentially cover sustainability. We were pretty generous in our evaluation so lots of these courses probably won't end up qualifying, but we thought it was better to be broad in the beginning. Moving forward, we plan on contacting Mark Collins and other department heads for syllabi so we can begin to narrow the designation. Feel free to comment with any classes you've taken that could possibly fit in because we need as many as possible to make this work.

Sustainability Classes:

GEOL:

-0860 Environmental Geology (?)
-0030 Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate (?)
-1055 Environmental Sciences, Ethics, and Public Policy
-1515 Environmental Geochemistry (?)
-1640 Geologic and Environmental Hazards
-1902 Mgmt of Environmental Organizations
-1904 Directed Reading

ANTH:

-1751 People and Environment of Amazonia
-0620 Biocultural Anthropology (?)
-1530 Origin of Cities (?)
-1603 Human Origins (??)
-1762 Human Ecology
-1792 Population and Culture (?)

CEE:

-1503 Intro to Environmental Engineering
-1513 Environmental Engineering and Processes

CHEM:

-0810 Contemporary Issues and Impact on Public Policy (?)


ECON:

-0360 Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
-0530 Economics of Underdeveloped Areas
-0630 East Asia's Dynamic Economies (?)
-0640 Economic Development of the Middle East and North Africa (?)
-1360 Environmental Economics
-1530 Development Economics
-1560 World Food Economy
-1630 Economic Development of China
-1640 Japanese Economic Growth

HIST:

-1626 History of U.S. Landscape
-1695 Environmental Politics (Yes)
-1017 Globalization and History

HPS:

-0517 Thinking About the Environment
-0633 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy

LEGLST:

-1320 Law and Environment

PS:

-1267 Environmental Politics and Policy
-1374 Politics of Global Inequality
-1541 Politics of Global Economic Relations
-1542 Global Environmental Politics
-1543 Globalization and International Politics
-1302 Political Development

SOC:

-1445 Society and Environment
-1365 Race, Gender, and Development (?)
-0007 Social Problems
-0005 Societies

PIA:

-2114 Environmental and Economic Sustainability
-2115 Environmental Management and Policy
-2116 Environmental and Resource Economics

BUSENV:

-1766 Environmental Management

BIOSC:

-0740 Yellowstone Field Course
-Pymatuning Field Course
-0370 Ecology
-1320 Population Ecology
-1380 Global Ecology
-1420 Wildlife Management
-1610 Conservation Biology
-1040 Ecological Management

HAA

-0480 Modern Architecture

COMMRC

-1149 American Environmental Rhetoric

This is a huge and great list!
The two civil classes you have would probably not qualify, actually - environmental engineering is wastewater treatment, not sustainability (always annoying, IMO). the 1200 set at the top of this thread should be some of the base for defining the requirement though.