Northern Arizona University

Undergraduate Course Highlights

Environmental Sustainability - ENV 181

Building of the NAU SSlug Garden and Greenhouse, a garden promotes sustainable food systems through the demonstration of organic growing methods in a campus setting. Hands-on participation in planting, harvesting, seeding, harvesting, seed collecting, and soil amendment activities enable volunteers to learn how to grow a variety of food crops in a challenging high-elevation climate. This Garden features short-season heirloom vegetables, medical, and culinary herbs, climate-appropriate fruit trees and berries, along with native wildflowers and shrubs. Since Flagstaff has a relatively short growing season (103 days), many of the plants are sown from seed in the NAU Greenhouse in the spring, and cared for by volunteers until they are ready to be planted in early June.

Foundations of Environmental Science: Humans and the Environment: ENV 230L

Identifying Arthropods within ephemeral, intermittent and perennial streams and ponds around Flagstaff areas using Dichotomous key systems.