Educating our students about the interconnectedness of environmental, social, and economic issues is an essential part of achieving our campus sustainability goals. Perhaps more importantly, it is vital for ensuring that our institution is sending engaged and thoughtful individuals into the world with the knowledge and skills they need to contribute to creating a more sustainable world.
Sustainability Curriculum
The courses below are included on CSULB’s list of Sustainability Curriculum offerings because their course syllabi and/or Standard Course Outlines explicitly meets the reporting standards that are outlined in the Academics credit of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, Rating System (STARS) Report.
For the purposes of this inventory, we define the ways in which sustainability concepts are integrated into the coursework and learning outcomes using the following two definitions as adopted by AASHE:
Sustainability-focused courses are courses whose title or description must indicate a primary and explicit focus on sustainability. The course title or description does not have to use the term “sustainability” to count as sustainability- focused if the primary and explicit focus of the course is on the interdependence of ecological and social/economic systems or a major sustainability challenge (e.g. climate change).
Sustainability-inclusive are courses whose course description or rationale provided in the course inventory must indicate that the course incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activity, or integrates sustainability challenges, issues, and concepts throughout the course.
*denotes capstone GE course
**denotes capstone and writing intensive GE
College Of The Arts
Sustainability-Focused Courses
DESN 268/368: History and Theory of Sustainability in Design
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
DESN 300: Designers in their Own Words
DESN 333B: Industrial Design Methodology B
DESN 340: Interior Design Process and Theory
DESN 341A: Interior Design
DESN 341B: Interior Design
DESN 441A: Advanced Interior Design
DESN 441B: Advanced Interior Design
College of Business Administration
Sustainability-Focused Courses
MKTG 405: Green Marketing and Sustainability
MKTG 495: Sustainability and Marketing
GBA 600: Sustainability and the Business Organization
GBA 601: Sustainability and the Business Organization II
GBA 699: Capstone in Sustainability
MKTG 667: Marketing and Sustainability
MKTG 695: Sustainability and Marketing
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
MKTG 615: Marketing Management
GBA 690: Seminar in an MBA International Experience
GBA 695: Sustainability and the Business Organization III
College of Engineering
Sustainability-Focused Courses
ENGR 390: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Sustainability**
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
ENGR 392: Water: People, Politics, and Processes
CE 406: Project Cost-Benefit Analysis*
CEM 490: Construction Project Management*
ENGR 302: Energy and Environment: Global Perspective*
College of Health & Human Services
Sustainability-Focused Courses
HFHM 370: Exploring a Sustainable Food System**
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
EMER 540: Emergency Management Organizations: Constructs for Influencing Complex Systems
FCS 228: Housing in Global Perspectives
FDM 255: Fashion Industry Ethics & Social Responsibility
HSC 420: International Health*
HCA 422: Global Issues in Health Services*
PPA 510: Urban Environmental Governance
REC 423: Facility Design Operations
REC 431: Recreation Resource Management
REC 437: Access and Equity of Parks
REC 467: Ecotourism Development
REC 468: Tourism Planning and Development
REC 480: Philosophy of Rec & Leisure
College of Liberal Arts
Sustainability-Focused Courses
AIS 336: Indigenous Philosophies of Sustainability*
ASAM 350: Environmental Justice
ESP 392: Climate Action & Sustainability at CSULB*
GEOG 101: Society and the Environment
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
AMST 310: Foodways in Contemporary America
AMST 350: California Culture*
COMM 439: Popular Culture and Technology
CWL 412i: Art & Literature: Myths of Pygmalion & Prometheus*
ECON 306: Environmental Issues of the World Economy*
ECON 462/562: Environmental Economics
ECON 464/564: Natural Resource Economics
ECON 463/563: Energy Economics
ENGL 444: Literature and Environment*
GEOG 130: Geography of Weather and Climate
GEOG 304: California*
GEOG 340: Environmental Geography
GEOG 355i/IST 355: International Environmental Issues**
GEOG 444: Climatology
GEOG 447: Landscape Restoration
GEOG 448/548: Environmental Assessment
GEOG 455: People as Agents of Environmental Change
GEOG 464: Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
GEOG 467/567: Urban Geography: Metropolitan Problems
HIST 464: Latin American Environmental History*
HIST 482: Recent American Environmental History*
IST 350: Water: People, Politics and Processes
IST 355: International Environmental Issues**
POSC 494i: Politics of the Future*
RST 101: Religion at the Movies
SOC 410: Environmental Sociology*
WGSS 424: Women and Environmental Justice
College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
BIOL 450/550: Plant Ecology
BIOL 451/551: Wetlands and Mangrove Ecology
BIOL 459/559: Conservation Biology
GEOL 280: Water Resources and Society
GEOL 300: Earth Systems and Global Change*
GEOL 303: Coastal Systems and Human Impacts
GEOL 474/574: Physical Hydrology
University Honors Program
Sustainability-Focused Courses
UHP 201: Sustainability and Technology in Los Angeles
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
UHP 301: Politics and Policy in Los Angeles*