Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.27
Liaison Katie Maynard
Submission Date May 9, 2012
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University of California, Santa Barbara
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.80 / 10.00 Katie Maynard
Sustainability Coordinator
Geography & Sustainability
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
296

The total number of courses offered :
7,789

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

DEPT Number Name
ANTH 102A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development
ANTH 102B Seminar in Women, Culture, and Development
ANTH 104H People, Poverty, and Environment in Central America
ANTH 111 The Anthropology of Food
ANTH 129MG Behavioral Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers
ANTH 130A Third World Environments: Problems and Prospects
ANTH 130B Third World Environments: Conservation and Sustainable Development
ANTH 130C Third World Environments: Response and Resistance
ANTH 145 Anthropological Demography and Life History
ANTH 147 Water and Society
ANTH 149 World Agriculture, Food, and Population
ANTH 166 Climate Change in Prehistory
ANTH 166BT Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture
ANTH 169 Evolution of Cooperation
ANTH 204 World Agriculture, Food, and Population
ANTH 251 Methods of Prehistoric Subsistence Analysis
ARTHI 5A Introduction to Architecture and Environment
ARTHI 121A American Art from Revolution to Civil War: 1700-1860
ARTHI 136O Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics
ARTHI 186Y Seminar in Architecture and Environment
ARTST 123 Papermaking
BIOL CS 104 Environmental Problem Solving
BL ST 129 The Urban Dilemma
CH ST 171 The Brown/Black Metropolis
CH ST 179A Race and Environmental Justice
CHEM 123 Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
EARTH 1 Geology and Environment
EARTH 10 Antarctica: The Last Place on Earth
EARTH 105 Earth’s Climate: Past and Present
EARTH 109 Geology of California
EARTH 130 Global Warming – Science and Society
EARTH 164B Earth System Ocean-Atmosphere
EARTH 164C Earth System History
EARTH 167 Climates of the Past
EARTH 170 Environmental Geology
EARTH 205 Earth’s Climate: Past and Present
EARTH 267 Climates of the Past
EARTH 276 Geological Oceanography
ECON 115 Environmental Economics
ECON 122 Natural Resource Economics
ECON 127 Climate Change
ECON 260A Natural Resources
ECON 260B Environmental Economics
ECON 260C Collective Action and Open Access
ECON 265 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Collective Action and Open Access
ED 136 Green Works- Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability
EEMB 2 Introductory Biology II–Ecology and Evolution
EEMB 22 Concepts and Controversies in the Biological Sciences
EEMB 94 Issues in Marine Conservation
EEMB 104 The State of Our Planet
EEMB 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration
EEMB 149 Mariculture for the 21st Century: Research Frontiers
EEMB 151 Phytoplankton Photoecology
EEMB 152 Applied Marine Ecology
EEMB 166 Field Approaches to Terrestial Plant and Ecosystem Ecology
EEMB 167 Applied Freshwater Ecology
EEMB 168 Conservation Ecology
EEMB 179 Modeling Environmental and Ecological Change
EEMB 188RE Conservation and Restoration Seminar
EEMB 228 Ecological Constraints to Ecosystem Restoration
EEMB 249 Mariculture: Research Frontiers in Farming the Sea
EEMB 250 Phytoplankton Photoecology
EEMB 279 Modeling Environmental and Ecological Change
EEMB 595GC Global Change and Ecology
ENG 165AL Artificial Life
ENG 162 Milton and Ecology
ENG 192 Science Fiction
ENG 197 Various Ecological Topics, including: Ecology and Time: On the Nature of Art; Environmental Ethics
ENG 231 Reading the Renaissance Greenly
ENG 234 Post-Spinosist Theory and Modernism
ENG 235 American Romanticism and Environmental Imagination
ENG 236 Indigenous Literatures and Environmental Politics
ENG 274 Global Ecologies
ENG 122EN Introduction to the Study of Literature and the Environment
ENG 122LS Landscape and the Social Imaginary
ENG 122MM Making Up Monsters
ENG 122NE Nature and Environment
ENG 122SA South Asia in Popular Media
ENG 134NA Native American Writers
ENG 154IE Imagining Eden: The Locus Amoenus in Literature
ENG 165 LM Literature and Medicine
ENG 165LA Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity
ENG 165LP Literature of the Pacific
ENG 165ME Media Ecology
ENG 165MP Renaissance Pastoral
ENG 190GE Postcolonial and Global Ecological Imaginations
ENG 190LG Literature and Globalization
ENGR 285F Business Skills: Asia: New Opportunities for Technology Businesses
ENV S 1 Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENV S 2 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENV S 3 Introduction to the Social and Cultural Environment
ENV S 105 Solar and Renewable Energy
ENV S 107R History of Ecological Restoration
ENV S 110 Disease and the Environment
ENV S 115 Energy and the Environment
ENV S 116 Building Sustainable Communities
ENV S 117 Science and Policy Dimensions of Climate Change
ENV S 125A Principles of Environmental Law
ENV S 125B Land Use and Planning Law
ENV S 128 ENV S 128 Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration
ENV S 130A Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters
ENV S 130B Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation
ENV S 130C Global Food Systems and Human Food Security
ENV S 132 Human Behavior and Global Environment
ENV S 135A Principles of Environmental Planning
ENV S 149 World Agriculture, Food, and Population
ENV S 160 American Environmental Literature
ENV S 161 Environmental Communications: Contemporary Strategies and Tactics
ENV S 173 American Environmental History
ENV S 174 Environmental Policy And Economics
ENV S 175 Environmental Economics
ENV S 176A Water Policy in the West: Linking Science with Environmental and Economic Values
ENV S 176B Advanced Study of Water Policy
ENV S 178 Politics of the Environment
ENV S 179 Natural Resource Economics
ENV S 184 Gender and the Environment
ENV S 189 Religion and Ecology in America
ESM 201 Ecology of Managed Ecosystems
ESM 202 Environmental Biogeochemistry
ESM 203 Earth System Science
ESM 204 Economics of Environmental Management
ESM 206 Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management
ESM 206A Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management
ESM 206B Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management
ESM 207 Environmental Law and Policy
ESM 210 Business and the Environment
ESM 211 Applied Population Ecology
ESM 212 Biological Community Survey and Analysis
ESM 214 Bioremediation
ESM 214L Laboratory in Bioremediation
ESM 215 Landscape Ecology
ESM 219 Microbial Processes in the Environment
ESM 219L Laboratory in Microbial Processes
ESM 222 Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment
ESM 223 Management of Soil and Groundwater Quality
ESM 223L Laboratory in Management of Soil and Groundwater Quality
ESM 224 Sustainable Watershed Quality Management
ESM 225 Water Policy
ESM 229 Science, Economics, and Policy of Climate Change
ESM 230 Strategic Planning for Non-Profit Ventures
ESM 231 New Venture Business Plan Development
ESM 232 Environmental Modeling
ESM 233 River Restoration
ESM 234 River Systems
ESM 235 Watershed Analysis
ESM 236 Mountain Snowpack
ESM 237 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
ESM 238 Climate Change Agreements and Politics
ESM 240 Climate Change Biology
ESM 241 Environmental Politics and Policy
ESM 242 Natural Resource Economics and Policy
ESM 243 Environmental Policy Analysis
ESM 244 Advanced Data Analysis for Environmental Science and Management
ESM 245 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Nonmarket Valuation
ESM 248 Environmental Institutions: Rights, Rules, and Decision-making Systems
ESM 251 Introduction to Environmental Policy Analysis
ESM 254 Coastal Marine Ecosystems Processes
ESM 255 Environmental Impact Assessment
ESM 256A Introduction to Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
ESM 256B New Venture Opportunity Analysis
ESM 256C New Venture Formation
ESM 257 Coastal Marine Policy & Management
ESM 260 Applied Marine Ecology
ESM 261 Management of Scientific Data
ESM 263 Geographic Information Systems
ESM 264 Web Mapping/Publishing
ESM 266 Remote Sensing of the Environment
ESM 267 Advanced Data Analysis for Environmental Science & Management
ESM 269 Survey Design and Environmental Public Opinion
ESM 270 Conservation Planning and Priority Setting
ESM 271 Carbon footprints and Carbon Accounting
ESM 272 Energy and Resource Productivity
ESM 273 Life Cycle Assessment
ESM 274 Business Planning for Eco-Entrepreneurs
ESM 275 Principles and Practice of Environmental Planning
ESM 276 Ethical Decision-Making for the Environment
ESM 279 Financial Management and Environmental Accounting
ESM 280 Organizations and Environmental Leadership
ESM 281 Corporate Environmental Management
ESM 282 Industrial Ecology
ESM 283 Environmental Negotiation
ESM 285 Environmental Markets
ESM 286 Environmental Risk Management
ESM 288 Energy, Technology, and the Environment
ESM 293 Advanced Special Topics in Climate and Energy
ESM 294 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Law
ESM 296 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Management
ESM 297 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Policy
ESM 298 Advanced Special Topics in Eco-Entrepreneurship
ESM 299 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Science
ESM 401A Group Project in Environmental Science and Management
ESM 401B Group Project in Environmental Science and Management
ESM 401C Group Project in Environmental Science and Management
ESM 420 Colloquium in Environmental Science and Management
ESM 425 Communications Workshop
ESM 430 Workshop in Environmental Science and Management
ESM 436 Legal Issues in Environmental Problem Solving
ESM 437 Writing Skills for Environmental Professionals
ESM 440 Advanced Environmental Communication
FILMST 75 Introduction to Environmental Media
FILMST 166 Media/Culture/Society
FILMST 182 Introduction to Environmental Media
FILMST 183 Films of the Natural and Human Environment
FILMST 109EM Introduction to Environmental Media
FILMST 109EP Advanced Environmental Media Production
GEOG 2 World Regions
GEOG 3A Oceans and Atmosphere
GEOG 3B Land, Water, and Life
GEOG 5 People, Place, and Environment
GEOG 6 Living with Global Warming
GEOG 7 Energy, Water, and Climate
GEOG 8 GEOG 8 Living with Global Warming
GEOG 101 Transportation Futures
GEOG 119 Climatic Change and Its Consequences
GEOG 134 Earth System Science
GEOG 135 Mock Environmental Summit
GEOG 140 Environmental Impacts in Human History
GEOG 141A Population Geography
GEOG 141B Population and Development
GEOG 141C California Population Analysis and Policy
GEOG 144 Form, Process, and Human Use of Rivers
GEOG 148 California
GEOG 149 The California Channel Islands
GEOG 150 Geography of the US
GEOG 158 Introduction to Marine Resources
GEOG 161 World Agriculture, Food, and Population
GEOG 162 Environmental Water Quality
GEOG 163 Ocean Circulation
GEOG 171 BT Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture
GEOG 171 FP Small-Scale Food Production
GEOG 185B Environmental Issues and Location Decision Making
GEOG 200A Introduction to Geographic Research
GEOG 200B Introduction to Geographic Research
GEOG 202A Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics
GEOG 208 Water Resource Systems Analysis
GEOG 209 Pedology
GEOG 209L Pedology Lab
GEOG 211A Transportation Planning & Modeling
GEOG 211B Transportation Modeling & Simulation
GEOG 211C Activity and Travel Behavior Analysis
GEOG 214A Advanced Remote Sensing: Passive
GEOG 214B Advanced Remote Sensing: Active
GEOG 217 Scientific Research Methods in Geography
GEOG 225 Urban Problems
GEOG 229 Environmental Perception and Cognition
GEOG 242 Land Use - Land Cover Change
GEOG 244 Society and Hazards
GEOG 253 Global Warming: Causes and Consequences
GEOG 255 Geography of Latin America
GEOG 266 Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences
GEOG 277 Spatial Environmental Modeling
GEOG 278 Practice of Geostatistical Modeling of Spatial Data
GEOG 279 Seminar in Geostatistics: Advanced Topics in Spatial Statistics
GEOG 280 Seminar on Climate Change
GEOG 241A Population Geography
GEOG 241B Population, Development, and the Environment
GEOG 35S Intense Mock Environmental Summit
GLOBL 2 Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes
GLOBL 221 Political Economy, Sustainable Development, and the Environment
GLOBL 250 Managing Development Organizations, Non-Profits, and other NGOs: Theory and Practice
GLOBL 161 Global Environmental Policy and Politics
GLOBL 171 Global Environmental Politics
GLOBL 271 Global Environmental Politics
GLOBL 180A Introduction to Women, Culture, and Development
GPS 137 World Society in Transformation: Building Enduring Peace
HIST 106D US Science Policy
HIST 107E History of Animal Use in Science
HIST 107G History of Global Environmental Problems
HIST 107R History of Ecological Restoration
HIST 107P Social Implications of Darwinism
HIST 109 Science and Technology in America
HIST 117E Society and Nature in the Middle Ages
HIST 151G Latin America and Globalization
HIST 173T American Environmental History
HIST 208A Research Seminar in Environmental History
HIST 208B Research Seminar in Environmental History
HIST 255A Ecological Imperialism: Science, Nature, and Conquest in Latin America
HIST 255B Ecological Imperialism: Science, Nature, and Conquest in Latin America
INT 156EE Environmental Ethics
MCDB 26 Contemporary Nutrition
MCDB 149 Mariculture: Research Frontiers in Farming the Sea
MCDB 249 Mariculture for the 21st Century: Research Frontiers
ME 112 Energy Conversion
POL S 175 Politics of the Environment
POL S 177 Comparative Environmental Politics
Pol S 292 Governance for Sustainable Development
POL S 293 Environmental Institutions: Rights, Rules, and Decision-making Systems
POL S 294 Environmental Politics and Policy
RG ST 193 Religion and Ecology in America
RG ST 156EE Environmental Ethics
SOC 105E Environmental Sociology
SOC 134EC Earth in Crisis
SOC 134G Green Movements and Green Parties
SOC 134GJ Global Justice Movements
WRIT 105S Writing About Sustainability
WRIT 109ES Writing for Environmental Studies


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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

2814 courses, not including independent studies, likely not including graduate courses


2814 courses, not including independent studies, likely not including graduate courses

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