Allegheny College ensures students are prepared to think critically and creatively from multiple perspectives, a skill that is essential in sustainability work. Students and faculty incorporate sustainability principles into disciplines as diverse as art, geology, writing, political science, economics, history, philosophy, modern languages, and communication arts. Students focus on sustainability through established majors and minors or by self-designing a concentration of study.
Majors
- Environmental Science and Sustainability Major
- Global Health Studies Major
- Community & Justice Studies Major
Minors
- Global Health Studies Minor
- Community & Justice Studies Minor
- Environmental Writing Minor
- Energy & Society Minor
- Journalism in the Public Interest Minor
Student-Faculty Research to Leverage Sustainable Change
Students are invaluable partners in the dialogue, research, and activism necessary to create a sustainable campus. Students have transformed campus through courses and independent research projects. They have installed solar arrays and food production gardens, designed rain gardens, green walls, and native landscapes. Students have also conducted valuable research resulting in the adoption of sustainable technologies and practices on campus such as geothermal heating and cooling, energy efficient lighting retrofits and LEED® certification.
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