Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.27
Liaison Katie Maynard
Submission Date May 9, 2012
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University of California, Santa Barbara
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.80 / 10.00 Katie Maynard
Sustainability Coordinator
Geography & Sustainability
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
296

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The total number of courses offered :
7,789

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Number of years covered by the data:
One

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A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
DEPT Number Name ANTH 102A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development ANTH 102B Seminar in Women, Culture, and Development ANTH 104H People, Poverty, and Environment in Central America ANTH 111 The Anthropology of Food ANTH 129MG Behavioral Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers ANTH 130A Third World Environments: Problems and Prospects ANTH 130B Third World Environments: Conservation and Sustainable Development ANTH 130C Third World Environments: Response and Resistance ANTH 145 Anthropological Demography and Life History ANTH 147 Water and Society ANTH 149 World Agriculture, Food, and Population ANTH 166 Climate Change in Prehistory ANTH 166BT Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture ANTH 169 Evolution of Cooperation ANTH 204 World Agriculture, Food, and Population ANTH 251 Methods of Prehistoric Subsistence Analysis ARTHI 5A Introduction to Architecture and Environment ARTHI 121A American Art from Revolution to Civil War: 1700-1860 ARTHI 136O Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics ARTHI 186Y Seminar in Architecture and Environment ARTST 123 Papermaking BIOL CS 104 Environmental Problem Solving BL ST 129 The Urban Dilemma CH ST 171 The Brown/Black Metropolis CH ST 179A Race and Environmental Justice CHEM 123 Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry EARTH 1 Geology and Environment EARTH 10 Antarctica: The Last Place on Earth EARTH 105 Earth’s Climate: Past and Present EARTH 109 Geology of California EARTH 130 Global Warming – Science and Society EARTH 164B Earth System Ocean-Atmosphere EARTH 164C Earth System History EARTH 167 Climates of the Past EARTH 170 Environmental Geology EARTH 205 Earth’s Climate: Past and Present EARTH 267 Climates of the Past EARTH 276 Geological Oceanography ECON 115 Environmental Economics ECON 122 Natural Resource Economics ECON 127 Climate Change ECON 260A Natural Resources ECON 260B Environmental Economics ECON 260C Collective Action and Open Access ECON 265 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Collective Action and Open Access ED 136 Green Works- Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability EEMB 2 Introductory Biology II–Ecology and Evolution EEMB 22 Concepts and Controversies in the Biological Sciences EEMB 94 Issues in Marine Conservation EEMB 104 The State of Our Planet EEMB 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration EEMB 149 Mariculture for the 21st Century: Research Frontiers EEMB 151 Phytoplankton Photoecology EEMB 152 Applied Marine Ecology EEMB 166 Field Approaches to Terrestial Plant and Ecosystem Ecology EEMB 167 Applied Freshwater Ecology EEMB 168 Conservation Ecology EEMB 179 Modeling Environmental and Ecological Change EEMB 188RE Conservation and Restoration Seminar EEMB 228 Ecological Constraints to Ecosystem Restoration EEMB 249 Mariculture: Research Frontiers in Farming the Sea EEMB 250 Phytoplankton Photoecology EEMB 279 Modeling Environmental and Ecological Change EEMB 595GC Global Change and Ecology ENG 165AL Artificial Life ENG 162 Milton and Ecology ENG 192 Science Fiction ENG 197 Various Ecological Topics, including: Ecology and Time: On the Nature of Art; Environmental Ethics ENG 231 Reading the Renaissance Greenly ENG 234 Post-Spinosist Theory and Modernism ENG 235 American Romanticism and Environmental Imagination ENG 236 Indigenous Literatures and Environmental Politics ENG 274 Global Ecologies ENG 122EN Introduction to the Study of Literature and the Environment ENG 122LS Landscape and the Social Imaginary ENG 122MM Making Up Monsters ENG 122NE Nature and Environment ENG 122SA South Asia in Popular Media ENG 134NA Native American Writers ENG 154IE Imagining Eden: The Locus Amoenus in Literature ENG 165 LM Literature and Medicine ENG 165LA Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity ENG 165LP Literature of the Pacific ENG 165ME Media Ecology ENG 165MP Renaissance Pastoral ENG 190GE Postcolonial and Global Ecological Imaginations ENG 190LG Literature and Globalization ENGR 285F Business Skills: Asia: New Opportunities for Technology Businesses ENV S 1 Introduction to Environmental Studies ENV S 2 Introduction to Environmental Science ENV S 3 Introduction to the Social and Cultural Environment ENV S 105 Solar and Renewable Energy ENV S 107R History of Ecological Restoration ENV S 110 Disease and the Environment ENV S 115 Energy and the Environment ENV S 116 Building Sustainable Communities ENV S 117 Science and Policy Dimensions of Climate Change ENV S 125A Principles of Environmental Law ENV S 125B Land Use and Planning Law ENV S 128 ENV S 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration ENV S 130A Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters ENV S 130B Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation ENV S 130C Global Food Systems and Human Food Security ENV S 132 Human Behavior and Global Environment ENV S 135A Principles of Environmental Planning ENV S 149 World Agriculture, Food, and Population ENV S 160 American Environmental Literature ENV S 161 Environmental Communications: Contemporary Strategies and Tactics ENV S 173 American Environmental History ENV S 174 Environmental Policy And Economics ENV S 175 Environmental Economics ENV S 176A Water Policy in the West: Linking Science with Environmental and Economic Values ENV S 176B Advanced Study of Water Policy ENV S 178 Politics of the Environment ENV S 179 Natural Resource Economics ENV S 184 Gender and the Environment ENV S 189 Religion and Ecology in America ESM 201 Ecology of Managed Ecosystems ESM 202 Environmental Biogeochemistry ESM 203 Earth System Science ESM 204 Economics of Environmental Management ESM 206 Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management ESM 206A Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management ESM 206B Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management ESM 207 Environmental Law and Policy ESM 210 Business and the Environment ESM 211 Applied Population Ecology ESM 212 Biological Community Survey and Analysis ESM 214 Bioremediation ESM 214L Laboratory in Bioremediation ESM 215 Landscape Ecology ESM 219 Microbial Processes in the Environment ESM 219L Laboratory in Microbial Processes ESM 222 Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment ESM 223 Management of Soil and Groundwater Quality ESM 223L Laboratory in Management of Soil and Groundwater Quality ESM 224 Sustainable Watershed Quality Management ESM 225 Water Policy ESM 229 Science, Economics, and Policy of Climate Change ESM 230 Strategic Planning for Non-Profit Ventures ESM 231 New Venture Business Plan Development ESM 232 Environmental Modeling ESM 233 River Restoration ESM 234 River Systems ESM 235 Watershed Analysis ESM 236 Mountain Snowpack ESM 237 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation ESM 238 Climate Change Agreements and Politics ESM 240 Climate Change Biology ESM 241 Environmental Politics and Policy ESM 242 Natural Resource Economics and Policy ESM 243 Environmental Policy Analysis ESM 244 Advanced Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management ESM 245 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Nonmarket Valuation ESM 248 Environmental Institutions: Rights, Rules, and Decision-making Systems ESM 251 Introduction to Environmental Policy Analysis ESM 254 Coastal Marine Ecosystems Processes ESM 255 Environmental Impact Assessment ESM 256A Introduction to Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation ESM 256B New Venture Opportunity Analysis ESM 256C New Venture Formation ESM 257 Coastal Marine Policy & Management ESM 260 Applied Marine Ecology ESM 261 Management of Scientific Data ESM 263 Geographic Information Systems ESM 264 Web Mapping/Publishing ESM 266 Remote Sensing of the Environment ESM 267 Advanced Data Analysis for Environmental Science & Management ESM 269 Survey Design and Environmental Public Opinion ESM 270 Conservation Planning and Priority Setting ESM 271 Carbon footprints and Carbon Accounting ESM 272 Energy and Resource Productivity ESM 273 Life Cycle Assessment ESM 274 Business Planning for Eco-Entrepreneurs ESM 275 Principles and Practice of Environmental Planning ESM 276 Ethical Decision-Making for the Environment ESM 279 Financial Management and Environmental Accounting ESM 280 Organizations and Environmental Leadership ESM 281 Corporate Environmental Management ESM 282 Industrial Ecology ESM 283 Environmental Negotiation ESM 285 Environmental Markets ESM 286 Environmental Risk Management ESM 288 Energy, Technology, and the Environment ESM 293 Advanced Special Topics in Climate and Energy ESM 294 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Law ESM 296 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Management ESM 297 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Policy ESM 298 Advanced Special Topics in Eco-Entrepreneurship ESM 299 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Science ESM 401A Group Project in Environmental Science and Management ESM 401B Group Project in Environmental Science and Management ESM 401C Group Project in Environmental Science and Management ESM 420 Colloquium in Environmental Science and Management ESM 425 Communications Workshop ESM 430 Workshop in Environmental Science and Management ESM 436 Legal Issues in Environmental Problem Solving ESM 437 Writing Skills for Environmental Professionals ESM 440 Advanced Environmental Communication FILMST 75 Introduction to Environmental Media FILMST 166 Media/Culture/Society FILMST 182 Introduction to Environmental Media FILMST 183 Films of the Natural and Human Environment FILMST 109EM Introduction to Environmental Media FILMST 109EP Advanced Environmental Media Production GEOG 2 World Regions GEOG 3A Oceans and Atmosphere GEOG 3B Land, Water, and Life GEOG 5 People, Place, and Environment GEOG 6 Living with Global Warming GEOG 7 Energy, Water, and Climate GEOG 8 GEOG 8 Living with Global Warming GEOG 101 Transportation Futures GEOG 119 Climatic Change and Its Consequences GEOG 134 Earth System Science GEOG 135 Mock Environmental Summit GEOG 140 Environmental Impacts in Human History GEOG 141A Population Geography GEOG 141B Population and Development GEOG 141C California Population Analysis and Policy GEOG 144 Form, Process, and Human Use of Rivers GEOG 148 California GEOG 149 The California Channel Islands GEOG 150 Geography of the US GEOG 158 Introduction to Marine Resources GEOG 161 World Agriculture, Food, and Population GEOG 162 Environmental Water Quality GEOG 163 Ocean Circulation GEOG 171 BT Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture GEOG 171 FP Small-Scale Food Production GEOG 185B Environmental Issues and Location Decision Making GEOG 200A Introduction to Geographic Research GEOG 200B Introduction to Geographic Research GEOG 202A Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics GEOG 208 Water Resource Systems Analysis GEOG 209 Pedology GEOG 209L Pedology Lab GEOG 211A Transportation Planning & Modeling GEOG 211B Transportation Modeling & Simulation GEOG 211C Activity and Travel Behavior Analysis GEOG 214A Advanced Remote Sensing: Passive GEOG 214B Advanced Remote Sensing: Active GEOG 217 Scientific Research Methods in Geography GEOG 225 Urban Problems GEOG 229 Environmental Perception and Cognition GEOG 242 Land Use - Land Cover Change GEOG 244 Society and Hazards GEOG 253 Global Warming: Causes and Consequences GEOG 255 Geography of Latin America GEOG 266 Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences GEOG 277 Spatial Environmental Modeling GEOG 278 Practice of Geostatistical Modeling of Spatial Data GEOG 279 Seminar in Geostatistics: Advanced Topics in Spatial Statistics GEOG 280 Seminar on Climate Change GEOG 241A Population Geography GEOG 241B Population, Development, and the Environment GEOG 35S Intense Mock Environmental Summit GLOBL 2 Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes GLOBL 221 Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment GLOBL 250 Managing Development Organizations, Non-Profits, and other NGOs: Theory and Practice GLOBL 161 Global Environmental Policy and Politics GLOBL 171 Global Environmental Politics GLOBL 271 Global Environmental Politics GLOBL 180A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development GPS 137 World Society in Transformation: Building Enduring Peace HIST 106D US Science Policy HIST 107E History of Animal Use in Science HIST 107G History of Global Environmental Problems HIST 107R History of Ecological Restoration HIST 107P Social Implications of Darwinism HIST 109 Science and Technology in America HIST 117E Society and Nature in the Middle Ages HIST 151G Latin America and Globalization HIST 173T American Environmental History HIST 208A Research Seminar in Environmental History HIST 208B Research Seminar in Environmental History HIST 255A Ecological Imperialism: Science, Nature, and Conquest in Latin America HIST 255B Ecological Imperialism: Science, Nature, and Conquest in Latin America INT 156EE Environmental Ethics MCDB 26 Contemporary Nutrition MCDB 149 Mariculture: Research Frontiers in Farming the Sea MCDB 249 Mariculture for the 21st Century: Research Frontiers ME 112 Energy Conversion POL S 175 Politics of the Environment POL S 177 Comparative Environmental Politics Pol S 292 Governance for Sustainable Development POL S 293 Environmental Institutions: Rights, Rules, and Decision-making Systems POL S 294 Environmental Politics and Policy RG ST 193 Religion and Ecology in America RG ST 156EE Environmental Ethics SOC 105E Environmental Sociology SOC 134EC Earth in Crisis SOC 134G Green Movements and Green Parties SOC 134GJ Global Justice Movements WRIT 105S Writing About Sustainability WRIT 109ES Writing for Environmental Studies

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2814 courses, not including independent studies, likely not including graduate courses

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