Teaching Sustainability at Rowan

Rowan has scores of faculty who cover sustainability topics in their courses. This includes professors from across the STEM disciplines, social sciences, humanities, and arts.

Sustainability can be incorporated into any course or topic, and in many cases, it should be. Depending on the course, however, different aspects of sustainability might be emphasized more than others, and different methods of research and analysis employed.

Resources

Curriculum materials related to sustainability, developed and shared by Rowan faculty are available on the Rowan Digital Works Open Educational Resources page.

A few highlights related to sustanability include:

• Scents of Place: exploring self, place and planet through botanical fragrance. Jennifer L. Kitson and Donna M. Sweigart.
• A Climate Policy Primer. Ted Howell.
• Business Policy as Responsible Leadership: A Collection of Open Educational Resources for Integrating Sustainability into the Strategy Curriculum. Richard Jonsen
• Are humans natural? Exploring relational values in the human-nature relationship in an evolutionary context. Nathan Ruhl.
• Integrating Humanities into Environmental Engineering Classrooms. Sarah Bauer