Facilitator: Leslie Gray, Environmental Studies Institute
Sustainability is most often defined as meeting our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The recognition that sustainability is an imperative that must be met stems from the fact that humans are using the earth’s resources and degrading its ecosystems in ways that compromise the health and well-being of future generations and the planet. The sustainability Pathway will allow students to learn about sustainability from multiple disciplinary perspectives and in interdisciplinary ways. This will help our students integrate the interconnected ideals of viable ecological integrity, viable economies, and equity and justice.
Some critical sustainability themes that will be embedded in the curriculum of sustainability Pathway classes are
- Human Connections to the Physical and Natural World
- How Natural Systems Function
- Ethics and Values
- Technological and Economic Relationships to Encourage Sustainability
- Motivating Environmentally Sustainable Behavior
- Critical Engagement with Sustainability Issues
Associated Courses
Foundations Courses
(Please note that only the specific Foundation course topics qualify for the Pathway requirements,
and only one Foundations course may be applied to a Pathway)
ENGL 12A Nature & Imagination
ENVS 12A Nature & Imagination
ENGL 2A Writing about Sustainability
ENGL 2A Ethics & the Environment
ENVS 2A Analyzing Green Rhetoric
Anthropology
ANTH 50 World Geography (cross-listed with POLI 50 and ENVS 50)
ANTH 140 Food, Culture, and the Environment
ANTH 142 Environmental Archaeology
ANTH 154 Environmental Anthropology
Biology
BIOL 5 Endangered Ecosystems L&L
BIOL 6 The Oceans L&L
* BIOL 131 Agroecology L & L
* BIOL 133 Ecology of California Plant Communities L&L
* BIOL 142 Natural History of California L&L
* BIOL 144 Natural History of Baja
* BIOL 150 Conservation Biology
* BIOL 151 Restoration Ecology L&L (cross-listed with ENVS 151)
* BIOL 156 General Ecology L&L (cross-listed with ENVS 156)
* BIOL 157 Environmental Biology in the Tropics (cross-listed with ENVS 141)
Civil Engineering
CENG 20 Geology
* CENG 115 Civil Engineering Materials
* CENG 119 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 219)
* CENG 140 Water Resources Engineering
* CENG 143 Environmental Engineering
* CENG 144 Environmental System Designs
* CENG 161 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 261)
* CENG 219 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 119)
* CENG 261 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 161)
Chemistry
CHEM 1 Chemistry & the Environment
Communication
COMM 105A Multicultural Folktales and Storytelling
COMM 120A Environmental Communication
Economics
ECON 101 Resources, Food, and the Environment
* ECON 111 Economics of the Environment
ECON 129 Economic Development
* ECON 134 African Economic Development
ECON 199L Environmental Economics (Independent Study)
Engineering
ENGR 1 Introduction to Engineering
ENGR 90 Solar Decathlon Workshop
Environmental Studies
ENVS 10 The Joy of Garbage
ENVS 20 The Water Wars of California L&L
ENVS 21 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENVS 22 Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENVS 23 Soil, Water, and Air L&L
ENVS 50 World Geography (cross-listed with ANTH 50 and POLI 50)
ENVS 79 Environmental Thought
ENVS 80 Energy and the Environment
*ENVS 84 Spirituality and Sustainability (cross-listed with TESP 84)
*ENVS 95 SLURP: Sustainable Living Undergraduate Research Project
ENVS 120 Introduction to Environmental Law and Regulation in the United States
ENVS 122 U.S. Environmental Policy
ENVS 131 Environmental Education
*ENVS 132 Agroecology L & L
ENVS 140 Sustainability Outreach
* ENVS 141 Environmental Biology in the Tropics (cross-listed with BIOL 157)
* ENVS 142 Writing Natural History
* ENVS 142B Writing Natural History (Baja)
* ENVS 144 Natural History of Baja
ENVS 145 Environmental Technology
ENVS 146 Agriculture, Environment, and Development: Latin America
ENVS 147 International Environment and Development
ENVS 148 Solar Revolution
* ENVS 151 Restoration Ecology L&L (cross-listed with BIOL 151)
* ENVS 156 General Ecology L&L (cross-listed with BIOL 156)
* ENVS 158 Conservation Psychology (cross-listed with PSYC 158)
* ENVS 195 SLURP: Sustainable Living Undergraduate Research Project
ENVS 199D Interdisciplinary Rsrch in Environmental Studies (Independent Study)
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 156 Environmental Racism, Gender, & Justice (cross-listed with WGST 113)
Finance
FNCE 180 Open Book Management
History
HIST 85 Introduction to United States Environmental History
HIST 188 The Making of Modern America: The Progressive Era
Honors
HNRS 20S Difficult Dialogues
Management
* MGMT 168 Managing for Sustainability
Philosophy
PHIL 9 Ethical Issues and the Environment
Political Science
POLI 50 World Geography (cross-listed with ANTH 50 and ENVS 50)
POLI 123 Global Environmental Politics
Psychology
* PSYC 158 Conservation Psychology (cross-listed with ENVS 158)
Religious Studies
* TESP 64 Environmental Justice & Catholic Imagination
* TESP 84 Spirituality & Sustainability (cross-listed with ENVS 84)
Sociology
SOCI 138 Populations of India, China & the U.S.
Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 113 Environmental Racism, Gender, & Justice (cross-listed with ETHN 156)
* Indicates Course Has Prerequisites
