San Diego State University
ER-17: Departments Engaged in Sustainability Research

Accountancy; Administration, Rehabilitation & Post-secondary Education, Rehabilitation Counseling; American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Art and Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Child and Family Development, Service Learning, City Planning; Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Communication, Creative Writing, Economics, Engineering, English and Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies and Sustainability, European Studies, Geography, Geological Sciences, History, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Information Systems, International Security and Conflict Resolution, Latin American Studies/ Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, Marketing, Mathematics & Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Nursing, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Affairs, Public Health, Recreation and Tourism Management, Religious Studies, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Social Work, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Urban Studies, Women's' Studies

As of Spring 2011 there are 118 degree granting departments at SDSU, of which 46 have one or more faculty who report conduct sustainability related research as defined the the Senate Sustainability Committee's definition of sustainability research adopted 9/17/2010 http://sustainable.sdsu.edu/ssc.html Faculty from 56 departments responded to the survey.

This assessment assumes that all academic degree-granting departments conduct research. A listing of departments is available at: http://www.sdsu.edu/academicprogs.html

The number of Academic departments in which at least one faculty member engages in sustainability research is based on the fall 2010 faculty survey responses for degree granting departments and self-reporting through the Experts Directory and cross listing with the Sustainability and Environmental Studies, Service Learning Program, and Sustainable Tourism Management Programs.