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Overall Score 51.10
Liaison Kristin Larson
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2012
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San Diego State University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.25 / 10.00 Geoff Chase
Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Center for Regional Sustainability, Division of Undergraduate Studies
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
102

The total number of courses offered :
4,526

Number of years covered by the data:
Two

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

SDSU Sustainability Focused Courses Offered in the Past Two Years
Course Number Identification Topical Area/ Title
ACCTG 201 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
AMIND 420 Major Req
ANTH 353 Culture and Sustainability
ANTH 410 Major Req
ANTH 429 Major Req Anthropology of Food and Eating
ANTH 510 Major Req Environmental Anthropology,
ANTH 532 Major Req Anthropology of Development and Conservation
ANTH 583 Major Req
ANTH 583 Major Req
ART 527
ASIAN 320 Major Req Asian Environmental Issues
BIOL 315 Major Req Ecology and Human Impacts on the Environment
BIOL 354 Topic Environmental biology
BIOL 540 Topic Environmental biology
BIOL 327 Topic Environmental biology, Conservation of Wildlife
BIOL 354L Topic Environmental biology, Ecology and the Environment
BIOL 517 Topic Marine Environment
BIOL 324 Topic Marine Environment, Environmental biology
BIOL 538 Topic Public Policy, Environmental biology
BIOL 537 Major Req
BIOL 541 Major Req
CHEM 571 Major Req
ECON 101 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
ECON 102 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major, STM Preparation for the Major, Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 452 Topic Area Economic Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Economics of Energy Resources
ECON 453 Topic Economic Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ENV E 320 Topic Urban Environment, Sustainable Development
ENV E 320 Topic Sustainable Development, Designing Solutions for Environmental Problems
ENV S 100 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major
ENV S 400 Major Req Environmental Studies and Sustainability
GEOG 101 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major, Earth's Physical Environment, Preparation for the Sustainability Major
GEOG 101l Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
GEOG 104 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major
GEOG 354 Topic Urban Environment, Geography of Cities
GEOG 370 Topic Public Policy, Environmental Sustainability, Environmental and Natural Resource Conservation
GEOG 370 Topic Environmental and Outdoor Education, Water and the Environment
GEOG 375 Major Req Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 401 Major Req
GEOG 409 Topic Public Policy, Global Climate Change
GEOG 409 Topic Environmental Sustainability
GEOG 426 Major Req
GEOG 426 Major Req Geography Regional Field Studies
GEOG 483 Major Req Watershed Analysis
GEOG 483 Topic Water and the Environment. Watershed Analysis
GEOG 507 Major Req
GEOG 511 Major Req
GEOG 511 Topic Water and the Environment
GEOG 554 Major Req World Cities
GEOG 570 Major Req Environmental Resource Conservation
GEOG 572 Land Use Analysis
GEOG 573 Major Req Population and the Environment
GEOL 303 Topic Public Policy, Environmental and Outdoor Education
GEOL 305 Topic Public Policy, Water and the Environment
HIST 441 Environmental Problems in Global Perspective
HIST 441 Major Req Unnatural Disasters
HIST 540 Topic Public Policy, Environmental History of the United States
HIST 540 Topic Environmental and Outdoor Education
HIST 584 Topic Public Policy
HIST 584 Topic Environmental and Outdoor Education, Water and the Environment, Politics, and Environment.
HIST 584 Major Req Topics in Environmental History
HTM 223 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
HTM 370 Topic Social/Cultural Sustainability, Social Justice, and Equity
HTM 450 Topic Economic Sustainability
ISCOR 301 Topic Social/Cultural Sustainability, Social Justice, and Equity, Conflict and Conflict Resolution
ISCOR 310 Topic Public Policy, Sustainable Development, Our Global Future
LATAM 540 Major Req Public Policy, History, Society, and Ecology of Baja Peninsula
MKTG 498 Green Business and Marketing Lab
N SCI 315 Major Req
OCEAN 101 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major
OCEAN 320 Topic Marine Environment
P H 301 Major Req
P H 304 Topic Urban Environment, Sustainable Development, Public Policy
PHIL 332 Topic Social/Cultural Sustainability, Social Justice, and Equity
PHIL 332 Major Req Environmental Ethics
PHIL 333 Topic Environmental and Outdoor Education
PHIL 348 Topic Morality and Climate Change
POL S 334 Major Req Politics of the Environment, Environmental and Outdoor Education, Marine Environment, Sustainable Development
POL S 564 Major Req Marine Environment, Environmental Politics in Global Perspective: Political Ecology of Latin America
POL S 564 Topic Public Policy, Sustainable Development
PSFA 100 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major, Sustainable Development
PSY 301 Topic Public Policy, Sustainable Development
PSY 380 Environmental Psychology
PSY 496 Psychology of Environmental Sustainability
REL S 376Major Req Nature, Spirituality and Ecology, Urban Environment, Public Policy, Environmental and Outdoor Education
RTM 101 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
RTM 284 Major Req STM Preparation for the Major
RTM 305 Major Req
RTM 305 Topic Field Application
RTM 351 Topic Social/Cultural Sustainability, Social Justice, and Equity
RTM 404 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
RTM 413 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
RTM 469 Topic Field Application
RTM 470 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
RTM 477 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
RTM 485 Major Req
RTM 487 Major Req
RTM 487 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
RTM 489 Topic Field Application
RTM 498 Major Req Sustainable Recreation and Tourism Management
STAT 250 Major Req Preparation for the Sustainability Major, Statistical Principles and Practices
WMNS 540 Major Req Urban Environment, Public Policy, Sustainable Development, Women and the Environment
WMNS 580 Topic Urban Environment, Women, Development and the Global Economy


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Courses were identified as sustainability focused based on cross listing as a required course in the Environmental Studies and Sustainability or Sustainable Tourism Management Programs and/ or faculty designation on the faculty sustainability course survey sent to all faculty in fall 2010. If a course description was not listed in the faculty survey response to identify the course as sustainability focused, the course was counted as sustainability related.


Courses were identified as sustainability focused based on cross listing as a required course in the Environmental Studies and Sustainability or Sustainable Tourism Management Programs and/ or faculty designation on the faculty sustainability course survey sent to all faculty in fall 2010. If a course description was not listed in the faculty survey response to identify the course as sustainability focused, the course was counted as sustainability related.

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