As part of its commitment to addressing the climate crisis through education, Teachers College will be offering three courses on sustainability for the Spring 2025 semester. These courses can be found within the Clinical Psychology, Health and Behavioral Studies, and additional interdisciplinary programs. These course offerings aim to equip students with the knowledge and tools to lead in sustainability education and practice across diverse fields. You can also learn more about sustainability courses offered at TC here.
CCPX 4199 004 Issues: Clinical Ecopsychology (Counseling & Clinical Psychology)
Instructor: Susan Bodner
When: Wednesdays 1:00pm-2:40pm
Description: This course examines the influence of the environment on child development. The syllabus explores research and case studies that explore how physical space plays a role in the construction of our psyches. This developmental perspective offers additional factors to consider in both child and adult psychopathology. And it suggests that the same factors responsible for climate change may also be impacting human beings.
In addition, the course incorporates the use of case studies and current peer-reviewed literature in the field of environmental health to promote knowledge acquisition. Health education curriculum and program development processes are incorporated into the course as well.
HBSV 4013 001 Nutritional Ecology (Health & Behavior Studies)
Instructor: Pamela Koch
When: Tuesdays 3:00pm-4:59pm
Description: A course for non-majors and majors. This course tries to answer the question, “Is our current food system ecologically sustainable?” Nutrition and food are viewed from a global, ecological perspective. Topics include limits to growth, food and population problems, food product development and promotion, energy and food relationships, food safety, organic agriculture, biotechnology, and other topics.
Students from outside of the Program in Nutrition who are interested in taking the course, please email pak14@tc.columbia.edu.
IND 5199 001 The Body in (Con)text: Implications for teaching and learning with the land (Interdisciplinary Course)
Instructor: OreOluwa Badaki
When: Mondays 5:00pm-7:00pm
Description: In this movement seminar, we will consider the affordances and limitations of centering the body within teaching and learning connected to the land. Drawing from research and practice in critical literacy studies, performance ethnography, and environmental justice, we will explore how attentiveness to the body can inform the ways we understand the intersecting social and ecological systems that surround us. The following question will guide our creative and collaborative inquiry: what stories can our bodies remember, as well as reimagine, about our relationship with the land?