Incorporated in ’s STARS submission was an inventory of academic offerings. The inventory identifies “sustainability courses” and “courses that include sustainability.” Such a list assists in bringing awareness to these course offerings and helps current and prospective students organize their academic studies. Additionally, such an inventory provides an important foundation for advancing sustainability integration in curriculum at .
Sustainability Courses
Sustainability courses are courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenge (e.g. the course contributes toward achieving principles outlined in the Earth Charter).
To produce a comprehensive list of sustainability courses, the Office of Sustainability reviewed a list of offered courses from the 2013-2014 academic year and conducted a preliminary analysis of which courses were about or included sustainability by reviewing their formal course descriptions.
These courses were categorized by department and then sent out to the Chairs of each department for review. The Chairs reviewed the course lists to assert the courses listed were either related to sustainability or not. The Chairs also added courses that were not already on the list. Specific professors were contacted, when necessary, and asked to provide an indication of how courses were related to sustainability if it was not obvious from the formal course description.
| Course, Course Name | School |
|---|---|
BUS 261 - Business and Sustainability | |
CIVL 280 - Global Issues in Environmental Engineering | |
ELEX 121 - Renewable Energy Systems (Electronics) | |
ENVR 103 - Environmental Microbiology | |
ENVR 107 - Environmental Geography | |
ENVR 110 - Environmental Seminar 1 | |
ENVR 204 - Environmental Field Trips | |
ENVR 206A - Environmental Horticulture | |
ENVR 208A - Sustainability Research Project Design | |
ENVR 208B - Sustainability Research Project | |
ENVR 209 - Waste Management Remediation | |
ENVR 222 - Urban & Regional Environments | |
ENVR 240 - Environmental GIS Applications | |
GEOG 100 - Environment and Sustainability | |
MARK 360 - Sustainable Marketing | |
PHIL 204 - Ethics: Animals to Ecosystems | |
TMGT 361 - Sustaining Tourism Performance |
Courses that Include Sustainability
A course that includes sustainability is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability issues throughout the course.
| Course, Course Name | School |
|---|---|
ACCT 220 - Management Cost Accounting 1 | |
ANTH 204 - Anthropology of Food | |
BIOL 102 - Non - Majors Biology (Diversity) | |
BIOL 105 - Introduction to Marine Biology | |
BIOL 228 – Ecology | |
BUS 150 - Introduction to Management | |
BUS 220 - Organizational Behaviour | |
BUS 280 – Entrepreneurship | |
BUS 450 - International Management | |
CFCS 110 - Foundations for Practice | |
CFCS 141 - Service Learning | |
CFCS 160 - Family and Community 1 | |
CFCS 210 - Diversity across the lifespan | |
CFCS 250 - Social Justice Today | |
CHEM 253 - Environmental Chemistry | |
CIVL 255 - Urban Services 1 | |
CIVL 153 - Surveying 3 | |
CIVL 162 - Soils 1 | |
CIVL 268 - Construction Materials | |
CIVL 276 – Hydrology | |
CIVL 282 - Water Treatment | |
CIVL 283 - Sewage Treatment | |
CIVL 293 - Structural Design 1 | |
CIVL 297 - Structural Design 2 | |
CIVL 298 - Structural Design Project | |
COMP 158E - Computing for Environment | |
ECON 103 - Principles of Microeconomics | |
ELEX 290 - Applied Research Project | |
ENVR 200 - Safety in the Environment | |
ENVR 203 - Aquatic Monitoring Techniques | |
ENVR 206B - Environmental Biotechnology | |
ENVR 207 - Applied Geomorphology | |
ENVR 210 - Aquatic Environments | |
ENVR 218 - Environmental Field Camp | |
ENVR 242 - Vertebrate Diversity & Ecology | |
ENVR 244 - Invertebrate Diversity/Ecology | |
ENVR 246 - Plant Diversity & Ecology | |
ETP 033 - Food Production Gardening | |
GBST 100 - Global Studies 1 | |
GEOG 102 - Human Geography | |
GEOG 103 - Globalization and World Religions | |
GEOG 220 - Natural Resources Systems | |
GEOG 232 - Cultural Geography | |
GEOG 236 - Geography of Cities | |
GEOG 240 - Globalization of Asia | |
GEOG 250 - Latin America and the Caribbean | |
GEOG 260 - Geographies of Development | |
GEOG 272 - Weather and Climate | |
GEOG 274 – Biogeography | |
GEOG 276 – Geomorphology | |
GEOS 100 - Physical Geology | |
GEOS 110 - Earth and Ocean Atmospheric Systems | |
GEOS 240 - Sedimentary Geology | |
GEOS 250 - Introduction to Mineralogy | |
HLTH 110 - Health in Today's World | |
HLTH 111 - Indigenous Community Health | |
HORT 108 - Pests and Pesticide Application | |
HORT 134 - Organic Vegetable Production | |
IBL 260 - Current Indigenous Business Topics | |
MECH 262 - Thermodynamics 2 | |
MECH 275 - Environmental Engineering | |
MECH 299 - Engineering and Society | |
SOC 120 - Social Systems and The Environment | |
SOC 211 - Introduction to Africa | |
SOSC 203 - Service Learning and Global Issues | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 2 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 1 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 2 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 3 | |
Electrical Foundations | |
Professional Cook Level 1 | |
Professional Cook Level 3 |
Contact information
Office of Sustainability