Villanova Integrated Academics

Examine and analyze issues surrounding indoor air quality (IAQ) and human health using environmental science, biology, public health, and social, policy, and economic influences. Air pollution, health effects, economics, social, and cultural factors, in developed and developing countries.

Using interdisciplinary and sustainable innovations in the social impact sector to solve social problems. Become innovative problem solvers. Learn by doing via class discussions and hands-on projects to discover how to make social change now and as lifelong changemakers.

Economics and political philosophy applied to the history, theory, and practice of statemanship. In-depth study of important case studies focusing on how political leaders must balance competing political and economic interests in society for the sake of the common good.

This course will utilize methodologies drawn from history and data analytics to investigate soccer as a global phenomenon. Students will explore soccer history beginning in 1850 and develop the necessary coding skins to work in the R programming language. Utilizing these skills and, ideally, conducting some research in a language other than English, students will collaborate to produce detailed reports on the history and culture of soccer in individual countries around the world.

Introduction to the built environment and concentrate on sustainability and environmental challenges within the built environment. Introduction to central theory and concepts of sustainable planning and design of the built environment and technical approaches and tools, such as GIS, used in urban planning to address these challenges. Focus on the planning process, the different urban environments that are the outcome of these processes and the associated environmental and sustainability challenges and opportunities.