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Stanford University
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.32 / 10.00 Jiffy Vermylen
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability & Energy Management / Office of Sustainability
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The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
343

The total number of courses offered :
8,646

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:

The list below shows the sustainability-related classes of 1 unit or more offered in 2010 - 2011 at Stanford:

AA 100: Introduction to Aeronautics and Astronautics
AA 113N: Structures: Why Things Don't (and Sometimes Do) Fall Down
AA 236A: Spacecraft Design
AA 253: Product and Systems Development (MS&E 205)
AA 272C: Global Positioning Systems
AFRICAAM 16N: African Americans and Social Movements (CSRE 16N, SOC 16N)
AFRICAAM 47: History of South Africa (HISTORY 47)
AFRICAST 112: AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa (AFRICAST 212)
ANTHRO 102A: Ancient Civilizations: Complexity and Collapse (ANTHRO 202A)
ANTHRO 113: Faunal Analysis: Animal Remains for the Archaeologist (ANTHRO 213, BIO 166, BIO 266)
ANTHRO 14: Introduction to Anthropological Genetics
ANTHRO 15: Sex and Gender
ANTHRO 172: Seminar on Cultural Evolution and Coevolution (ANTHRO 272)
ANTHRO 181A: Gender in the Middle East: Iran, Turkey, and Egypt
ANTHRO 185A: Race and Biomedicine (ASNAMST 185A)
ANTHRO 22: Archaeology of North America
ANTHRO 320A: Race, Ethnicity, and Language (EDUC 389X, LINGUIST 253)
ANTHRO 322: From Biopolitics to Necropolitics and Beyond
ANTHRO 332: Transformative Design (ENGR 231)
ANTHRO 373: Things: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things
ANTHRO 380B: Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia: Kinship & Society
ANTHRO 380C: Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia: Governance
ANTHRO 82: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 282)
ARCHLGY 133: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGIES (ARCHLGY 333)
ARTSTUDI 184: Art and Biology
BIO 105A: Jasper Ridge Docent Training (EARTHSYS 105A)
BIO 105B: Jasper Ridge Docent Training (EARTHSYS 105B)
BIO 136: Evolutionary Paleobiology
BIO 137: Plant Genetics (BIO 237)
BIO 139: Biology of Birds
BIO 143: Evolution (BIO 243)
BIO 145: Behavioral Ecology (BIO 245)
BIO 14N: Plants and Civilization
BIO 164: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (BIO 264)
BIO 196A: Biology Senior Reflection
BIO 196B: Biology Senior Reflection
BIO 196C: Biology Senior Reflection
BIO 227: Foundations of Community Ecology
BIO 275: Ecological Modeling
BIO 342: Plant Biology Seminar
BIOHOPK 161H: Invertebrate Zoology (BIOHOPK 261H)
BIOHOPK 164H: Marine Botany (BIOHOPK 264H)
BIOHOPK 171H: Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology (BIOHOPK 271H)
BIOHOPK 172H: Marine Ecology (BIOHOPK 272H)
BIOHOPK 175H: Problems in Kelp Forest Ecology and Microbial Ecology
BIOHOPK 187H: Sensory Ecology (BIOHOPK 287H)
BIOMEDIN 156: Economics of Health and Medical Care (BIOMEDIN 256, ECON 126, HRP 256)
CEE 161A: Rivers, Streams, and Canals (CEE 264A)
CEE 164: Introduction to Physical Oceanography (CEE 262D, EARTHSYS 164)
CEE 166A: Watersheds and Wetlands (CEE 266A)
CEE 166B: Floods and Droughts, Dams and Aqueducts (CEE 266B)
CEE 166D: Water Resources and Water Hazards Field Trips (CEE 266D)
CEE 172A: Indoor Air Quality (CEE 278C)
CEE 176S: Instrumental Analysis of Microconstituents in the Environment (CEE 276S)
CEE 177: Aquatic Chemistry and Biology
CEE 178: Introduction to Human Exposure Analysis (CEE 276)
CEE 206: Decision Analysis for Civil and Environmental Engineers
CEE 217: Renewable Energy Infrastructure
CEE 226: Life Cycle Assessment for Complex Systems
CEE 227: Global Project Finance
CEE 241A: Infrastructure Project Development (CEE 141A)
CEE 241B: Infrastructure Project Delivery (CEE 141B)
CEE 241C: Global Infrastructure Projects Seminar (CEE 141C)
CEE 243: Predicting and Measuring Building Energy Use
CEE 256: Building Systems (CEE 156)
CEE 262B: Transport and Mixing in Surface Water Flows
CEE 262F: Ocean Waves
CEE 263B: Numerical Weather Prediction
CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
CEE 266C: Advanced Topics in Hydrology and Water Resources
CEE 268E: Engineered Subsurface Systems: Geothermal, Carbon Sequestration & Nuclear \n\nWaste Storage.
CEE 270: Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters
CEE 271A: Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes
CEE 271B: Environmental Biotechnology
CEE 271D: Introduction to Wastewater Treatment Process Modeling
CEE 272: Coastal Contaminants
CEE 272R: Modern Power Systems Engineering
CEE 273: Aquatic Chemistry
CEE 274B: Metabolic Biochemistry of Microorganisms (CHEMENG 456)
CEE 276: Introduction to Human Exposure Analysis (CEE 178)
CEE 277D: Water, Sanitation and Health in Developing Countries
CEE 278A: Air Pollution Physics and Chemistry
CEE 363C: Ocean and Estuarine Modeling
CEE 363F: Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (EESS 363F)
CEE 363G: Field Techniques in Coastal Oceanography
CEE 365A: Advanced Topics in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
CEE 374A: Introduction to Physiology of Microbes in Biofilms
CEE 374S: Advanced Topics in Microbial Pollution
CEE 374T: Advanced Topics in Coastal Pollution
CEE 374U: Advanced Topics in Submarine Groundwater Discharge
CEE 374V: Advanced Topics in Microbial Source Tracking
CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development
CEE 385: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
CEE 63: Weather and Storms (CEE 263C)
CEE 64: Air Pollution: From Urban Smog to Global Change (CEE 263D)
CEE 70N: Water, Public Health, and Engineering
CHEM 24N: Nutrition and History
CHEMENG 140: Micro and Nanoscale Fabrication Engineering (CHEMENG 240)
CHEMENG 174: Environmental Microbiology I (CEE 274A, CHEMENG 274)
CHEMENG 183: Biochemistry II (BIO 189, BIO 289, CHEM 183, CHEMENG 283)
CHEMENG 25B: Biotechnology (ENGR 25B)
CHEMENG 25E: Energy: Chemical Transformations for Production, Storage, and Use (ENGR 25E)
CHEMENG 70Q: Masters of Disaster
CHICANST 201B: From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era (CSRE 201B)
CLASSGEN 5N: The Nile and its Life-cycles
COMM 131: Media Ethics and Responsibility (COMM 231)
COMPMED 81N: Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Mammals
COMPMED 83N: Horse Medicine
COMPMED 84Q: Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
COMPMED 87Q: Introduction to the Mouse in Biomedical Research
CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
CTL 312: Science and Engineering Course Design (ENGR 312)
DUC 324X: The Ecology of Equality
EARTHSYS 113: Earthquakes and Volcanoes (GEOPHYS 113)
EARTHSYS 122: Paleobiology (GES 123)
EARTHSYS 130: Soil Physics and Hydrology (GES 130)
EARTHSYS 131H: Hydrologically-Driven Landscape Evolution (GES 131)
EARTHSYS 141: Remote Sensing of the Oceans (EARTHSYS 241, EESS 141, EESS 241)
EARTHSYS 142: Remote Sensing of Land (EARTHSYS 242, EESS 162, EESS 262)
EARTHSYS 143: Marine Biogeochemistry (EARTHSYS 243, EESS 143, EESS 243)
EARTHSYS 144: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS) (EESS 164)
EARTHSYS 146A: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: The Atmospheric Circulation (EARTHSYS 246A, EESS 146A, EESS 246A, GEOPHYS 146A, GEOPHYS 246A)
EARTHSYS 146B: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: the Ocean\n\nCirculation (EARTHSYS 246B, EESS 146B, EESS 246B, GEOPHYS 146B, GEOPHYS 246B)
EARTHSYS 155: Science of Soils (EESS 155)
EARTHSYS 170: Environmental Geochemistry (GES 170)
EARTHSYS 177: Interdisciplinary Research Survival Skills (EARTHSYS 277)
EARTHSYS 2: Earth System History (EESS 2)
EARTHSYS 298: Earth Systems Book Review
EARTHSYS 38N: The Worst Journey in the World: The Science, Literature, and History of Polar Exploration (EESS 38N, GES 38N)
EARTHSYS 46N: Exploring the Critical Interface between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough (EESS 46N)
EARTHSYS 8: The Oceans: An Introduction to the Marine Environment (EESS 8)
EASTASN 70SI: Critical Issues in U.S.-China Relations Today
ECON 118: Development Economics
ECON 19N: The Economics of Cities
ECON 216: Development Economics III
ECON 341: Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar
EDUC 102: Examining Social Structures, Power, and Educational Access
EDUC 205X: The Impact of Social and Behavioral Science Research on Educational Issues
EDUC 216X: Education, Race, and Inequality in African American History, 1880-1990 (CSRE 216X, HISTORY 255E)
EDUC 247: Moral Education
EDUC 267E: Development of Scientific Reasoning and Knowledge
EDUC 267F: Development of Scientific Reasoning and Knowledge II
EDUC 306A: Economics of Education in the Global Economy
EDUC 306D: World, Societal, and Educational Change: Comparative Perspectives (EDUC 136, SOC 231)
EDUC 362X: The Science Curriculum: Values and Ideology in a Contested Terrain
EE 237: Solar Energy Conversion
EE 293A: Fundamentals of Energy Processes (ENERGY 293A)
EE 293B: Fundamentals of Energy Processes (ENERGY 293B)
EE 327: Properties of Semiconductor Materials
EE 60N: Man versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology (GEOPHYS 60N)
EESS 213: Spatial Statistics and Analysis for Environmental Data
EESS 215: Earth System Dynamics
EESS 220: Physical Hydrogeology (CEE 260A)
EESS 221: Contaminant Hydrogeology (CEE 260C)
EESS 240: Advanced Oceanography
EESS 244: Marine Ecosystem Modeling
EESS 250: Elkhorn Slough Microbiology
EESS 259: Environmental Microbial Genomics
EESS 330: Advanced Topics in Hydrogeology
ENERGY 155: Undergraduate Report on Energy Industry Training
ENERGY 160: Modeling Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences (ENERGY 260)
ENERGY 167: Engineering Valuation and Appraisal of Oil and Gas Wells, Facilities, and Properties (ENERGY 267)
ENERGY 180: Oil and Gas Production Engineering (ENERGY 280)
ENERGY 191: OPTIMIZATION OF ENERGY SYSTEMS (ENERGY 291)
ENERGY 194: Special Topics in Energy and Mineral Fluids
ENERGY 240: Geostatistics for Spatial Phenomena (GES 240)
ENGLISH 103Q: Reading and Writing Poetry about Science (STS 103Q)
ENGR 120: Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering (ENERGY 120)
ENGR 131: Ethical Issues in Engineering (STS 115)
ENGR 150: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ENGR 250)
ENGR 204: Research Ethics for Engineers and Scientists
ENVRES 220D: Agricultural Systems in Emerging Economies (EESS 320)
ENVRES 260: Global Water: Challenges and Opportunities
ENVRES 270: Graduate Practicum in Environment and Resources
ETHICSOC 136R: Introduction to Global Justice (INTNLREL 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336)
ETHICSOC 171: Justice (IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 3P, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
ETHICSOC 177M: HUMAN RIGHTS & MORAL QUESTIONS (ETHICSOC 277M, PHIL 177M, PHIL 277M)
ETHICSOC 198: Community Engagement Internship
FEMST 101: Introduction to Feminist Studies (ANTHRO 144A)
GEOPHYS 150: Geodynamics: Our Dynamic Earth
GEOPHYS 170: Global Tectonics
GEOPHYS 187: Environmental Soundings Image Estimation (GEOPHYS 211)
GEOPHYS 190: Near-Surface Geophysics
GEOPHYS 210: Basic Earth Imaging
GEOPHYS 255: Report on Energy Industry Training
GEOPHYS 257: Introduction to Computational Earth Sciences
GEOPHYS 262: Rock Physics
GEOPHYS 280: 3-D Seismic Imaging
GEOPHYS 284: Hydrogeophysics
GEOPHYS 286: Global Seismology
GEOPHYS 287: Earthquake Seismology
GEOPHYS 385B: Environmental Geophysics
GERGEN 235: Survival and the Biopolitics of Bare Life
GERGEN 265: Art and Nature
GES 102: Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy
GES 103: Earth Materials: Rocks in Thin Section
GES 104: Earth Materials: Introduction to Petrology
GES 105: Introduction to Field Methods
GES 110: Structural Geology and Tectonics
GES 111A: Fundamentals of Structural Geology (CEE 195A)
GES 111B: Fundamentals of Structural Geology (CEE 195B)
GES 121: What Makes a Habitable Planet? (GES 221)
GES 150: Senior Seminar: Issues in Earth Sciences
GES 151: Sedimentary Geology and Petrography: Depositional Systems
GES 171: Geochemical Thermodynamics
GES 182: Field Seminar on Continental-Margin Volcanism
GES 190: Research in the Field
GES 192: Undergraduate Research in Geological and Environmental Sciences
GES 198: Special Problems in Geological and Environmental Sciences
GES 1A: Introduction to Geology: The Physical Science of the Earth
GES 1BN: Introduction to Geology: California Desert Field Geology
GES 1C: Introduction to Geology: Dynamic Earth
GES 211: Topics in Regional Geology and Tectonics
GES 212: Topics in Tectonic Geomorphology
GES 213: Topics in Sedimentary Geology
GES 214: Topics in Paleobiology
GES 216: Rock Fracture Mechanics
GES 217: Faults, Fractures, and Fluid Flow
GES 224: Modeling Transport and Transformations in the Environment
GES 238: Soil Physics
GES 252: Sedimentary Petrography
GES 253: Petroleum Geology and Exploration
GES 256: Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology
GES 277: Flood Basalts and Mass Extinctions
GES 292: Directed Reading with Geological and Environmental Sciences Faculty
GES 299: Field Research
GES 311: Interpretation of Tectonically Active Landscapes
GES 40N: Diamonds
GES 55Q: The California Gold Rush: Geologic Background and Environmental Impact
GES 90: Introduction to Geochemistry
GSBGEN 356: Dynamics of the World Wine Industry
GSBGEN 358: The Power of Social Technology
GSBGEN 394: Global Project Finance
GSBGEN 522: Ethical Issues in the Biotech Industry
GSBGEN 566: Real-Life Ethics
GSBGEN 585: Social Innovation through Corporate Social Responsibility
GSBGEN 586: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, and Development
HISTORY 102: The History of the International System since 1914
HISTORY 106A: Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa
HISTORY 106B: Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas
HISTORY 206: History and Geography of Contemporary Global Issues
HISTORY 231A: Charles Darwin and the Global 19th Century (HISTORY 331A)
HISTORY 60S: Beyond the Nation: International Social Movements in the U.S. from World War I to World War II
HISTORY 61S: California Politics since the 1960s
HRP 214: Scientific Writing
HRP 216: Analytical and Practical Issues in the Conduct of Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
HRP 223: Epidemiologic Analysis: Data Management and Statistical Programming
HRP 225: Design and Conduct of Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies
HRP 226: Advanced Epidemiologic and Clinical Research Methods
HRP 231: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
HRP 240: Rethinking Global Health (MED 230)
HRP 299: Directed Reading in Health Research and Policy
HUMBIO 113: The Biologies of Humans and Plants
HUMBIO 122M: Challenges of Human Migration: Health and Health Care of Migrants and Autochthonous Populations (PEDS 212)
HUMBIO 151: Introduction to Epidemiology
HUMBIO 152: Viral Lifestyles
HUMBIO 153: Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges
HUMBIO 156: Global HIV/AIDS (MED 256)
HUMBIO 166: Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context
HUMBIO 174: Foundations of Bioethics
HUMBIO 2A: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology
HUMBIO 2B: Culture, Evolution, and Society
HUMBIO 3A: Cell and Developmental Biology
HUMBIO 3B: Behavior, Health, and Development
HUMBIO 84Q: Social Justice, Responsibility, Health
HUMBIO 86Q: Love as a Force for Social Change
IPS 203: Issues in International Economics
IPS 206A: Politics and Collective Action (POLISCI 331S, PUBLPOL 304A)
IPS 210: The Politics of International Humanitarian Action
LAW 212: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
LAW 338: Land Use
LAW 440: Biotechnology Law and Policy
LAW 622A: Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Practice
LAW 622B: Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Methods
LAW 622C: Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Coursework
LAW 623: Advanced Environmental Law Clinic
LAW 626: Legislative Simulation: The Cap and Trade Debate
MATSCI 303: Principles, Materials and Devices of Batteries
MATSCI 316: Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
ME 185: Electric Vehicle Design
ME 260: Fuel Cell Science and Technology
ME 314: Good Products, Bad Products (ME 214)
ME 370A: Energy Systems I: Thermodynamics
ME 370B: Energy Systems II: Modeling and Advanced Concepts
ME 370C: Energy Systems III: Projects
ME 371: Combustion Fundamentals
MED 262: Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (ECON 127)
MED 274: Design for Service Innovation (HRP 274)
MED 83Q: Ethical, Legal, and Social Dimensions of Stem Cell Research
MGTECON 300: Growth and Stabilization in the Global Economy
MGTECON 331: Political Economy of Health Care in the United States
MGTECON 332: Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Health Care
MS&E 181: Issues in Technology and Work for a Postindustrial Economy
MS&E 185: Global Work
MS&E 248: Economics of Natural Resources
MS&E 250A: Engineering Risk Analysis
MS&E 250B: Project Course in Engineering Risk Analysis
MS&E 271: Global Entrepreneurial Marketing
MS&E 299: Voluntary Social Systems
MS&E 93Q: Nuclear Weapons, Energy, Proliferation, and Terrorism
NBIO 101: Social and Ethical Issues in the Neurosciences (NBIO 201)
OIT 333: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
OIT 344: Design for Service Innovation
OIT 522: Field Trips to Grassroots Innovators in Health Care: Improving Access & Outcomes for the Underserved
OSPAUSTL 10: Coral Reef Ecosystems
OSPAUSTL 30: Coastal Forest Ecosystems
OSPAUSTL 40: Australian Studies
OSPAUSTL 50: Targeted Research Project
OSPBEIJ 27: Topics in China's Development
OSPBER 47: Ethics in Medicine and Everyday Life
OSPBER 48: Topics in Medicine and Ethics
OSPCPTWN 24A: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development
OSPCPTWN 24B: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development
OSPCPTWN 26: Managing Global Projects
OSPCPTWN 31: Theory and Politics of Foreign Aid
OSPCPTWN 32: Learning, Development, and Social Change: Service Learning in the Contemporary South African Context
OSPCPTWN 43: Public and Community Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
OSPFLOR 38: Water Resources Engineering in Italy: Ancient Rome, Medieval Siena, and Modern Florence and Venice
OSPGEN 70: Indigenous Australia
OSPMADRD 32: Health Care Systems Design: Spain, Europe, and the United States
OSPMADRD 57: Health Care: A Contrastive Analysis between Spain and the U.S.
OSPMADRD 72: Issues in Bioethics Across Cultures
OSPSANTG 27: Humans and the Environment: The Great Transitions
OSPSANTG 28: Independent Study Projects in Ecology, Evolution, and Demography
OSPSANTG 85: Marine Ecology of Chile and the South Pacific
PEDS 250: Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
PHIL 167B: Philosophy, Biology, and Behavior (PHIL 267B)
PHYSICS 15: The Nature of the Universe
PHYSICS 240: Introduction to the Physics of Energy
PHYSICS 241: Introduction to Nuclear Energy
POLISCI 1: Introduction to International Relations (INTNLREL 1)
POLISCI 222R: Culture, Identity, and Diversity
PSYCH 265: Social Psychology and Social Change (EDUC 371X)
PWR 1AT: Writing & Rhetoric 1: A Mountain for Itself: The Rhetoric of \nWilderness
PWR 1JB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Mad Cow to Mad Corn: The Rhetoric of Food Science and Politics
PWR 1JL: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention
PWR 2JB: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric of Ethics in Research and Technology
STRAMGT 341: Achieving Social Impact
STRAMGT 369: Social Entrepreneurship
STRAMGT 567: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
STS 115: Ethical Issues in Engineering (ENGR 131)
URBANST 110: Introduction to Urban Studies
URBANST 163: Land Use Control


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Responses for this credit include the courses offered only during the 2010 - 2011 academic year. All 1-unit classes (activity classes) are excluded from both the sustainability course inventory and the total course count. All activity classes are offered on a "satisfactory / no credit" basis and only a limited number (up to 8) may count towards undergraduate degree requirements. Activity classes are typically non-academic and provide extracurricular opportunities such as physical education or a lecture series.


Responses for this credit include the courses offered only during the 2010 - 2011 academic year. All 1-unit classes (activity classes) are excluded from both the sustainability course inventory and the total course count. All activity classes are offered on a "satisfactory / no credit" basis and only a limited number (up to 8) may count towards undergraduate degree requirements. Activity classes are typically non-academic and provide extracurricular opportunities such as physical education or a lecture series.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.