Sustainability Courses

Academic units across Miami University offer a wide variety of courses that are focused on sustainability or include the topic of sustainability in some way. Having sustainability courses and content offered by numerous departments helps ensure that Miami’s institutional approach to sustainability education is comprehensive and interdisciplinary. The following courses were taught on the Oxford campus during the 2023-2024 academic year.

Course Listing by Department

Department of Accountancy

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ACC 256	Accountancy Career Exploration and Planning
ACC 333	Managerial Accounting
ACC 343	Federal Income Tax Accounting
ACC 446/546	Taxes and Business Strategy
ACC 448/548	Information for Business Valuation and Decisions
ACC 468/568	Accounting for Not-for-Profit and Governmental Organizations
ACC 480/580	Accounting and Business Ethics
ACC 695	Integrative Accounting Capstone

Department of Anthropology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Title	Course Title
ATH 155	Introduction to Anthropology
GHS 101	Introduction to Global Health

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ATH 180	Apes, Behavior, and Conservation
ATH 448	Developing Solutions in Global Health
ATH 471	Ecological Anthropology

Department of Art

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number;	Course Title
ART 201	Pop, Media, and Visual Culture

Department of Architecture and Interior Design

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ARC 406C	Case Studies in Sustainability
ARC 406D	Passive + Low Energy Design

Department of Biology

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
BIO 121	Environmental Biology
BIO 131	Plants, Humanity, Environment
BIO 176	Ecology of North America
BIO 206	Evolutionary Biology
BIO 209	Ecology
BIO 266	Climate Science Communication
BIO 467/567	Conservation Biology

Department of Comparative Religion

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Title	Course Title
REL 241	Religion of the American Peoples

Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
CPB 244	Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CPB 441	Pollution Prevention

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
CPB 471	Engineering Design I
CPB 472	Engineering Design II
CPB 483	Chemical Process Safety

Department of Chemistry

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
CHM 491	Chemistry in Societal Issues

College of Engineering and Computing

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
CEC 222	Socio-Environmental Responsibility in Engineering and Computing

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
CSE 262	Technology, Ethics, and Global Society

Department of Economics

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ECO 406/506	Environmental Economics

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ECO 347	Economic Development
ECO 356	Poverty and Income Distribution

Department of Educational Psychology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
EDP 201	Human Development and Learning in Educational and Social Contexts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ECE 291	Energy Systems Engineering

Department of English

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ENG 264	Environmental Literature
ENG /IES 429/529	Environmental Communication

Department of Entrepreneurship

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ESP 102	Entrepreneurial Immersion: Social Innovation Weekend
ESP 201	Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Models
ESP 331	Social Entrepreneurship

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ESP 401	Entrepreneurship: New Ventures
ESP 461	Entrepreneurial Consulting

Department of Family Science and Social Work

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
FSW 206	Social Welfare Policies and Programs
FSW 312	Human Behavior in the Social Environment
FSW 415/515	Culturally Informed Practice
FSW 611	Social Welfare Policies
FSW 642	Advanced Social Welfare Policies

Department of Finance

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
BLS 465	Ethics, Law, and Business
FIN 331	Real Estate Principles
FIN 481	Student Managed Investment Fund
FIN 485	Integrative Concepts in Business

Institute for the Environment and Sustainability

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
IES 127	Environmental/Justice Films
IES 186	Sustainable Farming and Food
IES 211	Energy and Policy
IES 264	Environmental Literature
IES 274	Introduction to Environment and Sustainability
IES 275	Principles of Environmental Science
IES 278	Introduction to Food Systems
IES 278L	Understanding Food Systems Laboratory
IES 412/512	Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica
IES 419/519	Environment, Society & Justice
IES 431/531	Principles and Applications of Environmental Science
IES 441/541	Environmental Public Health
IES 450/550	Environmental Law
IES 474	Sustainability in Practice
IES 494/594	Sustainability Perspectives in Resources and Business
IES 605	Introduction to the Professional Service Project
IES 610	Professional Service Project
IES 611	Environmental Problem Solving and Analysis

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
IES 411/511	Environmental Protocols
IES 429/529	Environmental Communications

Department of French, Italian, and Classics

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ITL/IES 231	Italian Food Cultures in Context

Department of Geography

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
GEO 211	Global Sustainable Futures
GEO 441/541	Introduction to GIS
GEO 491	Geography and Sustainable Development Research Seminar

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
GEO 101	Global Forces, Local Diversity
GEO 159	Creating Global Peace
GEO 201	Geography of Urban Diversity
GEO 271	Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation
GEO 302	Geography and Gender
GEO 309	Native American Women
GEO 333	Global Perspectives on Natural Disaster

Department of German, Asian, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
GER 231	Enchanted Worlds: Folk and Literary Fairy Tales

Department of Geology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
GLG 121	Environmental Geology
GLG 244	Oceanography
GLG 307	Water and Society
GLG 335	Ice Age Earth
GLG 408	Introduction to Hydrology
GLG 419	Geology of Streams
GLG 428	Hydrogeologic Modeling
GLG 435	Soils and Paleosols
GLG 437	Paleontology in Conservation

Department of Global and Intercultural Studies

Sustainability Focussed Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ITS 365 Y	Eco-Futures and the Environment

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
AMS 303	Consumer Culture
ITS 302	Global Development and Inequality
ITS 333	Issues of the Global South
ITS 402	Crisis, Disaster, Survival
LAS 385	Race, Science, and Disease
LAS 410	Capitalism and Commodities

Department of History

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
HST 237	Plagues, Pandemics, and Peoples
HST 259	Introduction to the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
HST 385	Race, Science, and Disease in the Americas

Individualized Studies (Western Program)

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
WST 301	Interdisciplinary Problems and Questions
WST 341	Interdisciplinary Synthesis and Action

Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
ISA 235	IT and Intelligent Enterprise

Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition, and Health

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
KNH 402 A	Capstone Spring 2024
KNH/IES 441/541	Environment and Public Health

Department of Management

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MGT 304	Diversity and Cross Cultural Management
MGT 418	Sustainability and ESG in supply Chain Management

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MGT 295	Introduction to Supply Chain Management
MGT 431	Logistics

Department of Marketing

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MKT 412	Sustainable Marketing Management

Department of Mathematics

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MTH 420/520	Voting Theory

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MME 301	Product Design and Development
MME 314	Engineering Thermodynamics I
MME 331	Advanced Manufacturing and Design
MME 414	Engineering Thermodynamics II
MME 435/535	Process Engineering
MME 451/551	Sustainability Considerations in Design and Development

Department of Media, Journalism, and Film

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
FST 310	Film Theory
JRN 101	Journalism and American Life
JRN 333	International Journalism
MAC 309	Advertising in Consumer Culture
MAC 325	Social Media Cultures
MJF 105	Sustainability Considerations in Design and Development
STC 236	Intercultural Communication
STC 331	Branding in Politics

Department of Microbiology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
MBI 255	Microbial Applications
MBI 425/525	Microbial Physiology
MBI 475/575	Microbial Ecology

Department of Philosophy

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
PHL 103	Society and the Individual
PHL 131	Introduction to Ethics
PHL 205	Science and Culture
PHL 265	Confronting Death
PHL 311	Ethical Theory
PHL 312	Contemporary Moral Problems
PHL 331	Political Philosophy
PHL 335	Philosophy and Law
PHL 355	Feminist Theory
PHL 375	Medical Ethics
PHL 376	Environmental Philosophy
PHL 459	Political Philosophy Seminar

Department of Physics

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
PHY 121	Energy and Environment

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
PHY 161	Physics for the Life Sciences with Laboratory I
PHY 162	Physics for the Life Sciences with Laboratory II
PHY 181	General Physics I
PHY 182	General Physics II

Department of Political Science

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
POL 345 D	Sustainable Development
POL 459 D	Politics of Climate Change

Department of Psychology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
PSY 210	Psychology Across Cultures

Department of Sociology and Gerontology

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
SJS 419	Environment, Society, and Justice

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Sustainability Focused Courses
Course Number	Course Title
SPN 490	Ecofeminist Discourses and Socioecological Transitions in XXI Century Spanish Culture, Spring 2024 Senior Capstone

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
SPN 351	Historical Perspectives on Current Issues

Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
SPA 427	Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems for Individuals with Complex Communication Needs

Department of Sport Leadership and Management

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
SLM 225	Ethics in Sport
SLM 248	Global Sport Perspectives
SLM 276	Current Issues in Leisure and Sport
SLM 414	Facilities and Event Management in Sport

Department of Statistics

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
STA 404/504	Advanced data Visualization
STA 600	Practicum in Data Analysis

Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
TCE 188	Creativity and Innovation in STEM Education
TCE 191	Threshold Concepts of TCE
TCE 205	Race, Cultural Diversity, and Equity in Education
TCE 415/515	Inquiring Life Science
TCE 422	Studies in Educational Issues
TCE 423/523	Literature and Other Media for Adolescents

Department of Theatre

Sustainability Inclusive Courses
Course Number	Course Title
THE 200	Performance and Production Practicum
THE 210Q	Physical Wellness for Artists
THE 393C	Community-based Theatre
THE 422	Politics and Ethics of Theatre and Performance