Alfred State aims to ensure that all students are “empowered with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to be leaders in solving sustainability challenges.” To that end, we offer a diverse array of courses that address sustainability.
Sustainability Courses
These are courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenges:
- AGPS 5102 - Sustainable Vegetable Prod Technology
- AGPS 5103 - Sustainable Vegetable Production Technology
- AGRI 2012 - Organic & Sustainable Agriculture Technology
- AGRI 4116 - Sustainable Agriculture Internship
- AGRI 5103 - Sustain Vegetable Prod Tech
- ARCH 5503 - Sustainable Building Design
- CIVL 6113 - Environmental Technology Concepts
- CIVL 6313 - Green Building from Control Perspective
- ELET 4224 - Alternative Energy Generation
- ELTR 3336 - Photovoltaic & Wind Turbine Systems
- ENVR 3003 - International Issues in Agroecology
- ENVR 4411 - Environmental Capstone Seminar
- ENVR 4413 - Environmental Law
- ENVR 4424 - Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology
- ENVR 4900 - Directed Study
- GLST 2001 - Global Topics Seminar II
- LITR 7003 - Literature and Nature
Courses That Include Sustainability
These are courses that, while not primarily focused on sustainability, still incorporate a unit or module on sustainability, include one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrate sustainability issues throughout the course. This is not a comprehensive list.
- BIOL 1223 - Introduction to Forestry
- BIOL 1304 - Botany
- BIOL 2703 - Topics in Tropical Ecology
- BIOL 2803 - Environmental Science
- BUAD 3114 - International Tourism: Italian Food & Geography
- BUAD 5043 - Business Ethics
- CIVL 7104 - Land Development and Design
- ECON 5133 - Territory & Entrepreneurship: trdtn
- EDUC 2163 - Foundations of Education
- FDSR 2183 - Food Purchasing Techniques
- FDSR 4163 - Advanced Cuisine
- FNAT 5303 - Architectural History II
- MECH 3124 - HVAC Systems
- MECH 7223 - Energy Systems
- SOCI 5213 - Science, Technology & Society