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
UHP 201: Sustainability and Technology in Los Angeles - Honors
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
ART 223 Intermediate Typography
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
MGMT 459: Sustainable Business Management
MKTG 405: Green Marketing and Sustainability
MKTG 495: Sustainability and Marketing
MKTG 695: Sustainability and Marketing
MKTG 667: Marketing and Sustainability
GBA 600: Sustainability and the Business Organization
GBA 601: Sustainability and the Business Organization II
GBA 699: Capstone in Sustainability
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
CBA 300: International Business
GBA 690: Seminar in an MBA International Experience
GBA 695: Sustainability and the Business Organization III
MKTG 615: Marketing Management
College of Engineering
Sustainability-Focused Courses
CE 325: Transportation Safety and Sustainability
CE 466: Environmental Systems Design
CE 568: Renewable Resources and Energy
CEM 481: Sustainability in the Built Environment
CHE 433/533: Green Engineering I: Alternative Energy
ENGR 130: Health, Energy, Environment, Transportation
ENGR 302: Energy and Environment: A Global Perspective
ENGR 390: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Sustainability**
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
CE 101: Introduction to Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management
CE 364H: Environmental Engineering I: Fundamentals
CE 406: Project Cost-Benefit Analysis*
CE 426: Transportation Engineering
CE 427L: Highway Design Laboratory 1
CE 438L: Hydraulic Design 1 Laboratory
CE 464: Environmental Engineering II: Unit Processes
CEM 490: Construction Project Management*
CHE 445/545: Pollution Prevention
CHE 470: Chemical Engineering Design
CHE 475/575: Environmental Pollution
CHE 485/585: Air Pollution
ENGR 392: Water: People, Politics, and Processes
EE 554: Power Systems Economics and Applications
EE 556: Solar Power Systems
MAE 336: Power Plant Design
MAE 371: Analytical Mechanics II (Dynamics)
College of Health & Human Services
Sustainability-Focused Courses
HFHM 370: Exploring a Sustainable Food System**
PPA 510: Urban Environmental Governance
REC 468: Sustainable Tourism Planning & Development
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
DPT 701C: Anatomy for Physical Therapy III
EMER 540: Emergency Management Organizations: Constructs for Influencing Complex Systems
FCS 228: Housing in Global Perspectives
FDM 255: Fashion Industry Ethics & Social Responsibility
FSCI 101: Franken Food: Fact and Science Fiction
HCA 422: Global Issues in Health Services*
HFHM 276: Food Production & Service in Hospitality Management
HM 276: Food Production
HSC 420: International Health*
PPA 510: Urban Environmental Governance
REC 168: Introduction to Travel and Tourism
REC 243C: Desert Expedition (3)
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
ECON 406: Applied Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ESP 392: Climate Action & Sustainability at CSULB*
ESP 350: Environmental Politics
ESP 450/GEOG 450: Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
GEOG 101: Society and the Environment
GEOG 354: The Anthropocene: Earth in the Era of Humans
GEOG 359: Coastal and Marine Science and Policy
GEOG 469/569: Communities, Democracy & Spatial Justice
I/ST 342: Powering the Future
POSC 314: Environmental Law
POSC 494: Politics of the Future
SOC 410: Environmental Sociology*
SUST 601: Sustainability & Society
SUST 602: Sustainability Science
SUST 603: Sustainability Case Studies
SUST 604: Data Analytics and Sustainability
SUST 605: Sustainability and Organization Theory
SUST 606: Environmental Law, Politics, and Ethics
SUST 607: Decision Making and Uncertainty
SUST 608: Benefit Cost Analysis
SUST 609: Environmental Economics and Policy
SUST 610: Sustainability and Strategic Management
SUST 699A: Project Orientation and Support
SUST 699B: Applied professional Project
WGSS 424: Gendering Environmental Justice
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
AMST 152: Surfing and American Culture
AMST 310: Foodways in Contemporary America
AMST 350: California Culture*
AMST 419: The Suburbs
AMST 421: Animals in American Culture
AMST 467: Histories and Cultures of Long Beach
COMM 439: Communications and Popular Culture
CWL 412i: Art & Literature: Myths of Pygmalion & Prometheus*
ECON 306: Environmental Issues of the World Economy*
ECON 462/562: Environmental Economics
ECON 463/563: Energy Economics
ECON 464/564: Natural Resource Economics
ENGL 444: Literature and Environment*
FMD 255: Fashion Industry & Social Responsibility
FMD 452: Apparel Draping
FMD 457: Global Trade for Fashion
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 440: Land and Water Resources
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
GEOG 564/564: Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
GEOL 280: Water Resources and Society
HIST 390: The Environmental Evolution of Asia
HIST 464: Latin American Environmental History*
HIST 482: Recent American Environmental History*
IST 350: Water: People, Politics, and Processes
IST 355: International Environmental Issues**
LING 593: Practicum in TESOL
MAIA 605: International Economics Development
PSY 381: Introduction to Industrial-Organizational Psychology
POSC 494i: Politics of the Future*
RST 101: Religion at the Movies
WGSS 424: Women and Environmental Justice
College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Sustainability-Focused Courses
BIOL 211: Evolution & Diversity
CHEM 385/PHYS 385: Materials Science
GEOL 303: Coastal Systems and Human Impacts
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
BIOL 200: General Biology
BIOL 350: General Ecology
BIOL 353: Marine Biology
BIOL 420/520: Fisheries Ecology and Conservation
BIOL 450/550: Plant Ecology
BIOL 451/551: Wetlands and Mangrove Ecology
BIOL 459/559: Conservation Biology
GEOL 191: Air and Water Pollution
GEOL 280: Water Resources and Society
GEOL 300: Earth Systems and Global Change*
GEOL 303: Coastal Systems and Human Impacts
GEOL 445: Paleoclimatology
GEOL 474/574: Physical Hydrology
SCED 500: Teaching Science K-8, Life Science
University Honors Program
Sustainability-Inclusive Courses
UHP 301: Politics and Policy in Los Angeles*