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Sustainability & Climate Resilience

Programs

Drexel has many programs to explore sustainability, majors and minors that integrate the topic are available for undergraduate and graduate students.  Please contact an advisor if you're interested in the programs listed below, more specific information can be found on the university catalog website, which lists all courses of study offered by the university.

Undergraduate Majors

Undergraduate Minors

Graduate Majors

Graduate Minors

Courses

Drexel offers many courses in sustainability across it numerous schools and colleges.  Courses in sustainability can be found in almost every area of study, listed below is the general course information for these courses.  More courses may be available through special topics sections or through independent study sections.  Please check with the course catalog for further descriptions and detail, and check the term master schedule or reach out to the registrar for information on when courses are offered. 

Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design

  • ARCH 172, Architectural Tech. II
  • ARCH 222, Methods and Materials II
  • ARCH 281, Architectural Studio A2
  • ARCH 315, Sustainable Built Environment I
  • ARCH 320, Sustainable Built Environment II
  • ARCH 421, Environmental Psychology and Design Theory
  • DSMR 454, Sourcing Strategies for Textile and Apparel
  • FASH 200, Sustainable Practice in Fashion
  • FASH 354, Fashion Design III: Sustainable Design
  • FASH 554, Sustainable Fashion Design III
  • INTR 310, Sustainability: History, Theory and Critic
  • INTR 410, Collaborative Research in Sustainability
  • URBS 650, Urbanism, Health and the Built Environment

LeBow College of Business

  • ECON 334, Public Finance
  • ECON 351, Resource and Environmental Economics
  • MGMT 676, Sustainability and Value Creation
  • OPM 342, Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Logistics
  • POM 642, Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Logistics
  • REMD 320, Sustainability in the Built Environment

College of Nursing and Health Professions

  • CULA 410, Culture and Gastronomy II
  • CULA 427, The Kitchen Garden: Fall
  • FOOD 626, Kitchen Garden
  • HRM 612, Tourism and Sustainability

College of Arts and Sciences

  • ANTH 360, Culture and Environment
  • ENGL 302, Environmental Literature
  • ENVS 247, Native Plants and Sustainability
  • ENVS 260, Environmental Science and Society
  • ENVS 275, Global Climate Change
  • ENVS 342, Equatorial Guinae: Natural Resource Economics
  • ENVS 345, Equatorial Guinae: Conservation Biology
  • ENVS 387, Restoration Ecology
  • ENVS 587, Restoration Ecology
  • ENSS 120, Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ENSS 236, Cities and Sustainability
  • GST 261, Introduction to Global Health and Sustainability
  • GST 361, Advanced Studies in Global Health and Sustainability
  • HIST 321, Themes in Global Environmental History
  • PHIL 317, Ethics and Design Professions
  • PHIL 340, Environmental Ethics
  • PSCI 284, Environmental Politics
  • PSY, Psychology of Sustainability
  • SOC 341, Environmental Movements in America
  • SCTS 561, Mobilities Lab

Close School of Entrepreneurship 

  • ENTP 375, 3BL - Triple Bottom Line

College of Engineering

  • CHE 430, Introduction to Sustainable Engineering
  • CAEE 301, Community Based Design
  • CMGT 355, Introduction to Sustainable Construction
  • ECEP 354, Energy Management Principles
  • ECEP 380, Introduction to Renewable Energy
  • MATE 120, Modern Materials in Your World
  • CIVE 542, Incorporating Sustainability Principles in Design
  • CIVE 564, Sustainable Water Resource Engineering
  • CIVE 640, Environmental Geotechnics
  • CAEE 501, Community Based Design
  • CMGT 545, Sustainable Principles and Practices
  • CMGT 546, Sustainable Technologies
  • CMGT 558, Community Sustainability
  • ET 755, Sustainable and Green Manufacturing

School of Education

  • EDGI 541, Special Issues in Sustainability