Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.85
Liaison Tara Pike
Submission Date June 17, 2011
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University of Nevada Las Vegas
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.56 / 10.00 Tom Piechota
Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research
Division of Research and Graduate Studies
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
300

The total number of courses offered :
6,575

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

AAD 201 History of the Built Environment/Discussion
AAD 201D History of the Built Environment/Discussion
AAD 202 Analysis of the Built Environment
AAE 330 Design With Climate
AAE 435 Developing Sustainable Design
AAE 454 Architecture and the New Urbanism
AAE 459 Design and Development
AAE 460 Issues in Contemporary Urbanism
AAI 450 Designed Environment and Human Behavior
AAI 459 Design and Development
AAL 101 Design With Nature
AAL 330 Design with Climate
AAL 459 Design and Development
AAP 100 Introduction to Urban Planning
AAP 377 Site Planning and Environmental Analysis
AAP 378 Urban Form and Design
AAP 378L Urban Planning and Design II
AAP 477 Regional Planning Issues
AAP 477L Urban Planning and Design III
AAP 478L Urban Planning and Design IV
AAP 495 Special Topics in Urban Planning and Design
ABS 331 Environmental Control Systems I
ABS 332 Environmental Control Systems II
ACC 400 The Accounting Environment
ANTH 311 Cultural Resources Management
ANTH 430 Anthropology and Ecology
ANTH 443 Environmental Archaeology
BIOL 104 Introduction to Human Ecology
BIOL 220 Introduction to Ecological Principles
BIOL 305 Introduction to Conservation Biology
BIOL 341 Principles of Ecology
BIOL 345 Urban Horticulture
BIOL 418 Microbial Ecology
BIOL 438 Water Management in Arid Environments
BIOL 441 Field Ecology
BIOL 444 Principles of Plant Ecology
BIOL 471 Aquatic Ecology
BLW 302 Legal Environment
BUS 498 Global Business Strategy
CEE 250 Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 406 Hydrologic Analysis and Design
CEE 407 Computer Applications in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
CEE 413 Water Resources Engineering I
CEE 450 Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering
CEE 454 Solid and Hazardous Wastes Engineering
CEM 350 Facility Systems Design and Construction I
CEM 351 Facility Systems Design and Construction II
CEM 480 Sustainable Construction
CS 474 Decision Environments for Software Product Development
ECON 190 Global Economics
ECON 307 Environmental Economics
ECON 309 Resource Economics
ECON 470 Urban and Regional Economics
EDSP 481 Practicum in a Resource Room
EDUC 381 Global Leadership
EDWF 440 Computer Uses in Workforce Education and Development
EDWF 454 Student Teaching, Workforce Education and Development
EGG 130 Control of Environmental Pollution
EGG 150 Introduction to Solar Energy Utilization
EGG 307 Engineering Economics
EGG 450 Introduction to Solar Energy Utilization
ENG 409B Rhetoric and the Environment
ENG 491B Environmental Literature
ENS 100 Humans and the Environment
ENV 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENV 125 Control of Environmental Pollution
ENV 201 Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment
ENV 202 Environmental Regulations
ENV 203 Sampling, Analysis, Treatment, and Disposal
ENV 205 Environment and Development
ENV 206 Introduction to Climate Change
ENV 220 Introduction to Ecological Principles
ENV 333 Nuclear Issues in Nevada
ENV 345 Environmental Regulations: History, Law and Methods
ENV 360 Environmental Assessment Methods
ENV 377 Environmental Economics
ENV 393 Assessment for Radiological Hazards
ENV 407 Environment and Society
ENV 410 Environmental Policy
ENV 411 Environmental Risk Management
ENV 414 Air Pollution Science and Management
ENV 420 Environmental Impact Analysis
ENV 430 Land Use Management
ENV 440 Introduction to American Environmental Thought
ENV 460 Environmental Modeling
ENV 480 Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Management
FAB 470 Global Food and Nutrition Issues
GEOG 103 Physical Geography of Earth’s Environment
GEOG 116 Introduction to Oceanography
GEOG 140 Conversations With Earth
GEOG 421 Climatology
GEOL 110 Global Warming
GEOL 135 Earth Resources and Society
GEOL 140 Conversations with Earth
GEOL 303 Global Environmental Change
GEOL 334 Environmental Geology
GEOL 335 Earth Resources and the Environment
GEOL 410 Soil Classification and Resource Management
GEOL 436 Quaternary Paleoecology
GEOL 437 Paleoclimatology
GEOL 474 Hydrogeology
GEOL 478 Hydrogeochemistry
HCA 404 Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations
HIST 103 Global Problems in Historical Perspective
HIST 434 Role of Cities in American History
HIST 434A European Urban History
HIST 441 American Environmental History
HIST 443 Comparative Environmental History
HIST 443A Historic Preservation
HIST 483A Urban Destruction and Reconstruction
HMD 259 Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry
HPS 470 Environmental Health Physics
JOUR 475 Global Media
LAND 258 Xeric Plant Materials
LAND 443 Stormwater Management (Construction IV)
LAND 499 Sustainable Design for the 21st Century City
LIB 203 Media Resources in Libraries
ME 412 Sizing Solar Energy Systems
ME 419 Advanced HVAC and Energy Conservation Systems
MGT 367 Human Resource Management
MGT 475 Seminar in Human Resource Management
NRES 411 Environmental Law
NRES 432 Advanced Environmental Toxicology
PHIL 102 Critical Thinking and Reasoning
PHIL 249 Environmental Ethics
PHYS 108 Physics For A Better Environment
PHYS 108L Physics for a Better Environment Laboratory
PSC 401A Urban Politics
PSC 403A Natural Resource Policy
PSC 403B Energy Politics and Policy
PSC 403C Environmental Policy
PSC 405P Global Political Economy
PSC 405Q Global Ecopolitics
PSC 405T International Environmental Politics
PSC 407I Politics and Problems in Developing Areas
RLS 259 Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry
SOC 407 Environment and Society
SOC 429 Globalization: Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
SOC 443 Urban Sociology
SOC 469 Crossing Borders/Global Migrations
STAT 469 Environmental Statistics I: Univariate Methods
SW 315 Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
SW 425 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II
SW 478 Global Child Welfare
TCA 405 Legal Environment of Meetings and Events
WMST 475 Gender, Development, and Globalization
WMST 490 Special Topics
AAE 635 Sustainable Design Principles
AAE 654 Architecture and the New Urbanism
AAE 660 Issues in Contemporary Urbanism
AAE 770 Research Methods in Environmental Design
AAI 650 Designed Environment and Human Behavior
AAP 646 Urban Land Use: Planning and Controls
ABS 531 Environmental Control Systems I
ABS 532 Environmental Control Systems II
ABS 632 Solar Energy Applications in Architecture
ANTH 630 Anthropology and Ecology
ANTH 643 Environmental Archaeology
ANTH 753 Seminar in Cultural Adaptations to Arid Environments
ANTH 754 Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Great Basin
ANTH 796 Cultural Resource Management Internship
AST 725 High Energy Astrophysics
BIOL 618 Microbial Ecology
BIOL 644 Principles of Plant Ecology
BIOL 671 Aquatic Ecology
BIOL 743 Ecological Plant Physiology
BIOL 748 Environmental Physiology
BIOL 781 Population and Evolutionary Ecology
BIOL 783 Community and Ecosystem Ecology
BIOL 784 Conservation Biology
CED 739 Vocational Placement and Community Resources
CEE 650 Unit Operations/Processes in Environmental Engineering
CEE 700 Research Methods in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 704 Environmental & Water Systems
CEE 752 Advanced Water and Wastewater Analysis
CEE 759 Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
CEM 653 Construction Scheduling and Resource Optimization
CHEM 710 Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
CHEM 715 Environmental Organic Chemistry
CHEM 760 Environmental Radiochemistry/Radiation Safety
CHEM 775 Bioanalytical Environmental Toxicology
CIG 601 Curriculum and Instruction Urban Settings
CIG 603 Urban Education
CIL 672 Reference Methods and Resources School Library
CIT 676 Management of Educational Technology Facilities and Resources
ECO 655 Economics of Industrial Organization
ECO 707 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ECO 709 Regional Economic Analysis
ECO 720 Health Economics and Policy
ECO 732 Political Economy and Economic Policy
ECO 763 Economics and the Law
ECO 765 Labor Economics
ECO 773 Business and Economic Forecasting
EDA 747 Urban School Administration
EDA 785 Administering Schools in a Political Climate
EDH 627 Student Learning and Development
EDH 709 Seminar in the Economics of Higher Education
EDW 719 Leadership in Workforce Education and Development
EDW 732 Human Resource Management in WLF
EDW 742 Policies and Practices in Workforce Training and Development
EDW 780 Leadership in Workforce Education and Development
EDW 785 Global and Diversity Perspectives in the Workforce Education
EDW 787 Organization Development & Change: Theories to Practice
EMBA 708 Global and Macroeconomic Environment for Business
ENG 609B Rhetoric and the Environment
ENG 691B Environmental Literature
ENV 601 Advanced Environmental Toxicology
ENV 611 Environmental Risk Management
ENV 660 Environmental Modeling
ENV 680 GIS for Environmental Management
ENV 701 Environmental Science Pro Seminar
ENV 702 Environmental Problem Solving
ENV 703 Environmental Law and Policy Seminar
ENV 712 Environmental Risk Decision Making
ENV 720 Natural Resource Valuation
ENV 725 Quantitative Methods for Environmental Science
ENV 749 Environmental Sciences Teaching Practicum
ENV 750 Environmental Studies and Public Policy
ENV 751 International Environmental Policy
ENV 752 Advanced Seminar in Environmental Studies and Public Policy
ENV 755 Political Economy of Technology, Environment and Development
ENV 790 Internship in Environmental Science
ENV 791 Environmental Sciences Examination Preparation
ENV 792 Environmental Sciences Professional Paper Research
ENV 793 Independent Study in Environmental Science
ENV 794 Special Topics in Environmental Science
ENV 795 Thesis
EOH 732 Children, Development, Health, and the Environment
EOH 740 Fundamentals of Environmental Health
EOH 765 Seminar in Environmental Justice and Public Health
EOH 769 Advanced Pollution Ecology
EOH 790 Current Topics in Environmental Health and Epidemiology
EOH 793 Internship in Environmental Health
EOH 794 Professional Paper in Environmental Health
EOH 795 Special Topics in Environmental Health
EOH 796 Independent Study in Environmental Health
EPP 720 Problems in Child Development
EPS 741 Environmental Law and Policy Seminar
EPY 708 Human Learning and Development
EPY 711 Human Growth and Development
EPY 777 Cognitive Development
ESP 726 Policy Analysis and Development for Special Human Services
ESP 764 Characteristics & Inclusive Strategies for Students with Emotional Disturbance, Learning Disabilities & Mild Mental
GEOG 621 Climatology
GEOL 610 Soil Classification and Resource Management
GEOL 636 Quaternary Paleoecology
GEOL 637 Paleoclimatology
GEOL 735 Seminar in Environmental Geology
GEOL 775 Seminar in Economic Geology
GEOL 786 Soils Applications: Paleoclimate, Neotectonics, Archeology
HCA 704 Health Care Economics
HCA 710 Human Resources Management of Health Care Organizations
HIST 634A European Urban History
HIST 641 American Environmental History
HIST 643 Comparative Environmental History
HIST 683A Urban Destruction and Reconstruction
HOA 703 Human Resources Management in the Hospitality Industry
HPS 670 Environmental Health Physics
HPS 760 Environmental Restoration and Radioactive Waste Management
HPS 772 Environmental Radiation Measurements
KIN 745 Human Energy Metabolism
LAW 651 Environmental Quality Law
LAW 654 Public Lands and Natural Resources Law
LAW 723 Economics and the Law
LAW 776 Natural Resources Field Seminar
ME 619 Advanced HVAC and Energy Conservation Systems
ME 714 Computational Aspects of Solar Energy
ME 741 Energy and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics I
ME 742 Energy and Variational Methods in Applied Mechanics II
ME 759 Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
MHA 603 Human Resources and Behavior in the Hospitality Industry
MHA 726 Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry
MIS 748 Social and Economic Impacts of Information Technology
NURS 770 Knowledge Development in Nursing
NURS 782 Sustainability of Urban Health: Clinical Perspectives
NURS 783 Economics of Sustaining Urban Health
NURS 784 Health and Public Policy for Urban Sustainability
PSC 722 Seminar in Environmental Resource Policy
PSY 763 Survey of Community Mental Health Resources
PUA 740 Urban Administration
SOC 607 Environment and Society
SOC 629 Globalization: Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
SOC 643 Urban Sociology
SOC 717 Urban Demography and Population Studies
SOC 743 Seminar in Urbanism and Urbanization
SOC 751 International Issues: Gender, Sex, Globalization
SOC 752 Global Migrations
SOC 756 Urban Theory: Culture and Community
SOC 757 Urban Field Methods
SOC 768 Environmental Sociology
SOC 769 Ecology, Culture, Social Psychology
STA 669 Environmental Statistics I: Univariate Methods
STA 717 Environmental Statistics
SW 678 Global Child Welfare
SW 715 Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
SW 745 Seminar: Human Behavior and the Social Environment
SW 765 Financial Management and Resource Development
WMST 675 Gender, Development, and Globalization
WRM 706 Research Methods in Water Resources Management
WRM 790 Special Topics in Water Resources Management


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