Curriculum for the Bioregion
This initiative aims to better prepare undergraduates to live in a world where the complex issues of environmental quality, community health and wellbeing, environmental justice, and sustainability are paramount. This faculty and curriculum development initiative is based on the idea that we live out our lives in specific places but the choices we make and the actions we take have both local and global consequences. The strategy being taken is to create "faculty learning communities" within individual disciplines to build sustainability concepts and place-based learning in foundational college classes; and field- and community-based workshops that update faculty about pressing bioregional issues as well as the people and organizations working on solutions. Visit the Washington Center for more information.
Studying Abroad
- Chimfunshi, Zambia - Study chimp psychological behavior and provide service to the local people living or working on the Chimfunshi Wildlife Reserve, a 27,000 acre reserve for chimpanzees.
- Benin, Africa - WATER: West African Appropriate Technology, Education, and Reciprocity
Students in this program take a common course, WATER and, as part of the course, may travel to sub-Saharan Africa. WATER focuses on the engineering, public health, and cultural dimensions of improving water and sanitation in a developing country.
- Costa Rica - Explore Costa Rica's incredible biodiversity and unique ecosystems. Study tropical ecology, economics, and socio-cultural issues related to the natural resource management challenges in world-renowned protected areas.
- Cali, Columbia - Explore global water issues in this course offered jointly by Gonzaga and Javeriana Universities. Learn about global water supplies, common freshwater contaminants, and available treatment technologies in developing and developed countries. The course emphasizes water issues in the Western Hemisphere and includes three weeks at Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia.
Faculty research & teaching
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Matthew Bahr - Sociology
Course: Population and Society
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Julie Beckstead - Biology
Courses: Intro. to Ecology; Human Ecology; Environmental Chemistry; Conservation Biology
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Andrea Bertotti-Metoyer- Sociology
Course: Environmental Sociology
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David Boose - Biology
Courses: Intro. to Ecology; Human Ecology; Environmental Chemistry; Case Studies in Environmental Science
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Jillian Cadwell - Civil Engineering
Research: An interdisciplinary study of ecology and fluid mechanics with a particular focus on coral reproduction as influenced by turbulent mixing in the ocean
Courses: Sustainable Systems and Design, Applied Stream Ecology, Transport in the Environment |
John Caputo - Communication and Leadership Studies (website – email)
Research: Media Ecology |
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Seth Coleman - Biology (website – email)
Research: Evolution of animal communication systems
Courses: Human Ecology; Human Ecology Lab
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Gary Chang - Biology
Courses: Intro. to Ecology; Human Ecology; Environmental Chemistry
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Robert Donnelly - History
Course: Cities in American History
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Betsy Downy - History
Course: History of Yellowstone
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Stephen Hayes - Biology
Courses: Intro. to Ecology, Conservation Biology
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Brian Henning - Philosophy/Co-Chair ACSS (website - email)
Research: Environmental ethics, especially the ethics of climate change and the ethics of food
Courses: Environmental Ethics; Ethics of Global Climate Change
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Kevin Henrickson - Economics
Course: Economics of Environmental Protection
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Jonathan Isacoff - Political Science
Courses: Ecological Thought and Politics; Global Environmental Politics
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Mary Jeannot - MA/TESL, ELC
Course: Water for Life: West Africa (Abroad) |
Erica Johnson - Economics
Course: Economics of Environmental Protection |
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Hugh Lefcort - Biology (website - email)
Research: Environmental effects of aquatic heavy metal pollution
Courses: Intro. to Ecology; Human Ecology; Environmental Chemistry; Case Studies in Environmental Science
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Ellen Maccarone - Philosophy
Course: Ethics of Eating |
Michael McBride - Psychology
Course: Environmental Psychology |
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Susan Norwood - Nursing
Course: Water for Life: West Africa (Abroad)
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Linda Schearing - Religious Studies
Course: Old Testament and Ecojustice |
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John Shea SJ - Biology
Courses: Human Ecology, Intro. to Ecology
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Joanne Smieja - Chemistry
Courses: Environmental Chemistry Lab; Water Quality: Cali, Columbia (Abroad)
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Brian Steverson - Business/Philosophy
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Michael Treleaven - Political Science
Courses: State and Local Government; Native American Government and Politics; Politics of the Pacific NW; North American Environmental Politics
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Peter Williams - Political Science
Course: Energy Resources and Policy |
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Sherry Wood - Biology
Courses: Field Botany; Human Ecology Lab
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