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Environmental Studies Sustainability Site
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August 21, 2000

Environmental Studies Resources

This page gathers a variety of resources to provide our colleagues, students, and visitors a tour of the academic program and its work towards sustainability. Frequent updates display new submissions. The table of contents:

1. Expanded faculty biographies and work in progress toward sustainability
2. On-line syllabi, organized by level: 100, 200, 300, 400, graduate
3. Program documents, an archive of vital documents for the ES program.

Faculty And Sustainability

For advisement, the Ramapo College Environmental Studies site provides faculty descriptions. Here, we provide expanded biographies which indicate how the work and courses of individual faculty intersect with sustainability. Essays and work in progress on sustainability are noted when available. Currently listed are:

• Trent Schroyer
  • On the Systematic Distortion in the Concept of "Sustainable Development"
  • On "Third Ways": An End of Neo-Liberalism?
• Wayne Hayes
  • A Primer on Sustainability
  • A Primer on Ecological Economics
  • ProfWork web site

Course Syllabi

The secretary in the office of Theoretical and Applied Science has all syllabi available for inspection. In addition, several syllabi are displayed on-line:

100 Level Courses

• Introduction to Geography and Observation Notes, Dr. Horowitz

200 Level Courses

• Public Policy, Dr. Hayes
• Environmental History, Dr. Horowitz

300 Level Courses

• Water Resources, Dr. Horowitz
• Forest Resources, Dr. Horowitz
• National Parks and Forests, Dr. Horowitz
• Geography of the American West, Dr. Horowitz
• The American Southwest, Dr. Horowitz
• Sustainable Communities, Dr. Edelstein
• Inside America, Dr. Hayes

400 Level Courses

• Seeking Environmental Justice In a Contaminated World, Dr. Edelstein, Senior Seminar

Graduate Courses

• Business and the Environment, Dr. Hayes, elective in Ramapo College MBA program
• Community and Environment: Education for Citizenry, Dr. Edelstein and Dr. Smirnova, Master's Program in Educational Technology

Program Documents

The Ramapo College web site displays the official ES program documents. However, make available below additional documents:

• The Environmental Institute supports the overall academic and service mission of ES.
• The New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability, NJHEPS, headquartered at Ramapo College, provides vital sustainability services for higher education in New Jersey
• Advisement Guide, Dr. Edelstein, Convenor, implemented October, 1998. Check official Ramapo web site for confirmtion.
• Preliminary Spring 2001 Academic Program, Dr. Edelstein
• ES Alumni and Alumnae Survey, Dr. Edelstein
• Program Review, 1998: External review summary, reported every five years.
• Response to External Review, by Dr. Edelstein, Convenor
• Paths Towards a Masters in Sustainability, Dr. Edelstein
• Alternative Energy Center History and Mission, by Audrey Schwartz and Alexandra Lawrence, Student Coordinators

© Wayne Hayes and Trent Schroyer
August 21, 2000
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