Academic Programs

We are committed to enhancing and promoting our sustainability academic programs.

Academic Programs

As a university, GW is committed to enhancing and promoting our sustainability research, academics and programs. The resources below can help the GW community locate academic programming that relates to sustainability.

Introducing the NEW Undergraduate Minor in Sustainability

Starting in Fall 2012, the George Washington University will offer a new 18-credit Minor in Sustainability, open to all undergraduate students (classes 2014 and later).

The Undergraduate Minor in Sustainability allows students to explore the challenges of sustainability and to think about how to develop solutions to pressing issues at the local, regional, and global scale. It introduces students to the concepts, principles, and issues that inform the sustainability paradigm and will also integrate classroom and community-based learning and research in a program that prepares students to apply the sustainability perspective to their future endeavors.

This unique pan-university Sustainability Minor will include several innovative features such as a groundbreaking team-taught introductory course (SUST 1001 Introduction to Sustainability), with faculty from several schools participating, and an experiential learning component that will serve as a culminating experience for junior or senior students.

For more information about the Sustainability Minor, please download this information guide, and feel free to contact sustaingw@gwu.edu with any questions.

To create your own Sustainability Minor course of study plan, please click here.

Green Course List

Courses that have a 'green leaf' designation, address issues around social, economic, and/or environmental sustainability and include at least three of the following criteria:

Content related to sustainable development: creating healthy and thriving resource systems for all;
Content related to environmental issues;
Content related to social issues that can be applied to sustainable development such as human welfare, social equity issues or social/organizational/behavioral change;
Content related to economic issues that can be applied to sustainable development;
Discourse focused on the interconnection of world resources and the human condition from a long-term perspective;
Content related to policy and communications issues that can be applied to sustainable development.

We are currently working to update our list of Green Leaf Courses. Please check back here for a completed list in Spring 2012.

Programs and Degrees

To help plan your course of study click here to view a list of programs and majors that GW offers in sustainability.

The GW Experience

Students

An Incubator for Ideas

GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.

A Home Away from Home

Twins study medicine and public health at George Washington.

Student Co-Produces New Album

George Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.

A Call to Service

GW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.

Faculty

Teaching Campaigning in Cairo

GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.

South African Youth Perform at GW

Latest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.

A Life-Changing Course

Today’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.

Academic Programs

We are committed to enhancing and promoting our sustainability academic programs.