Sustainability Focused Courses

Cal Poly received a gold rating for AASHE STARS certification in September 2019. As part of the rating process, STARS recognizes courses that focus on and include sustainability. Sustainability focused and related courses are designated through a review process by the Academic Senate Sustainability Committee (ASSC). To qualify as focused, the course must explicitly teach at least two of the Cal Poly Sustainability Learning Objectives in a meaningful way, and at least 20% of the course must address sustainability.

Upon release of a new catalog the ASSC will review new course offerings and add the appropriate courses to the list below. If your wish to add a course that is not listed, please complete this onedrive form and email a course syllabus and any other supportive material to suscat@calpoly.edu.

Sorted alphabetically by prefix. Course title is linked to the 2019/20 Catalog Description.

COURSE	Cross Listing	TITLE	Fulfills GE
AEPS 245		Horticulture Production Techniques
AEPS 315	AG	Organic Agriculture	Yes
AEPS 450		Current Issues in the Strawberry Industry
AG 330	ASCI, UNIV, ISLA	Cal Poly Land: Nature, Technology, and Society	Yes
AG 350	EDES, ENGR, HUM, ISLA, SCM, UNIV	The Global Environment	Yes
AG 360		Holistic Management	Yes
ARCE 475		Civil Infrastructure and Building Systems
ARCH 207		Architectural Technology Fundamentals 2.3
ARCH 253		Architectural Design 2.3
ARCH 307		Architectural Systems Integration 3.2
ARCH 451		Architectural Design 4.1
ARCH 452		Architectural Design 4.2
ARCH 453		Architectural Design 4.3
ARCH 472		Housing Design Concepts
BIO 112		Environmental Biology and Conservation	Yes
BIO 227		Wildlife Conservation Biology	Yes
BIO 363	NR	Principles of Conservation Biology
BIO 434		Environmental Physiology
BIO 446		Ecosystem Ecology
BOT 311		Plants, People and Civilization	Yes
BRAE 220		Introduction to Biological Systems
BRAE 348		Energy for a Sustainable Society	Yes
CE 527		Sustainable Mobility
CM 317		Sustainability and the Built Environment	Yes
CM 425		Sustainability and Environment
COMS 390		Environmental Communication
CRP 202		Urban Design Studio I
CRP 336		Introduction to Environmental Planning
CRP 412		Plan Implementation
CRP 440		Climate Action Planning
CRP 445		Planning and Urban Ecology
CRP 504		Sustainable Communities
CRP 545		Principles of Environmental Planning
ECON 431		Environmental Economics
ECON 432		Economics of Energy and Resources
EDES 406		Sustainable Environments
EDES 408		Implementing Sustainable Principles
EDES 410		Advanced Implementation of Sustainable Principles
EE 420		Sustainable Electric Energy Conversion
EE 520		Solar-Photovoltaic SystemsDesign
ENGL 315		Writing Sustainability, Resilience, and Equity	Yes
ENGL 316		Writing Sustainability	Yes
ENVE 450		Industrial Pollution Prevention
ERSC 325	GEOG	Climate and Humanity
ERSC 333	GEOG	Human Impact on the Earth
GEOG 408		Geography of Development
GSE 532		Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
HIST 311		Comparative World Environmental History & Sustainability Since 1492	Yes
HIST 432		United States Environmental History
HLTH 410		Foundations of Global Health
HNRS 161		Creating Sustainable Communities (i)	Yes
HNRS 162		Creating Sustainable Communities (ii)	Yes
HNRS 163		Creating Sustainable Communities (iii)
HNRS 391	PSC, UNIV	Appropriate Technology for the World's People: Development	Yes
HNRS 392	PSC, UNIV	Appropriate Technology for the World's People: Design	Yes
ITP 330		Packaging Fundamentals
LA 204		Design Fundamentals III
LA 220		Landscape Ecology: Concepts, Issues and Interrelationships	Yes
LA 243		Materials and Techniques of Landscape Construction
LA 403		Natural Environments Design Focus Studio
LA 432		Landscape Ecology Applications (ILC)
LA 521		Ecological Urban Design
MATE 222		Materials Selection Life Cycle
MATE 232		Materials, Ethics, and Society
MATE 485		Materials and the Environment
ME 320		Consumer Energy Guide	Yes
ME 453		Trends and Opportunities in HVAC&R
ME 454		Benchmarking and Assessment of Building Energy Performance
ME 455		Introduction to Building Energy Modeling
ME 488		Wind Energy Engineering
MSCI 111		Introduction to Marine Biology	Yes
MSCI 428		Marine Conservation and Policy
MSCI 439		Fisheries Science and Resource Management
NR 141		Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Management
NR 142		Environmental Management
NR 305		Forest Ecology and Silvics
NR 321		Water Systems Technology, Issues and Impacts	Yes
NR 323		Human Dimensions in Natural Resources Management	Yes
NR 324		Social Dimensions of Sustainable Food and Fiber Systems	Yes
NR 326		Natural Resources Economics and Valuation
NR 328	RPTA	Environmental Leadership and Community Engagement	Yes
NR 365		Silviculture and Vegetation Management
NR 445		Systems Thinking in Environmental Management
NR 465		Ecosystem Management
NR 474		Forest Stewardship Practices
PHIL 340		Environmental Ethics	Yes
PHYS 310		Physics of Energy
POLS 333	UNIV	World Food Systems	Yes
PSC 201		Physical Oceanography	Yes
PSC 320		Energy, Society and the Environment	Yes
PSC 391	UNIV, HNRS	Appropriate Technology for the World's People: Development	Yes
PSC 392	UNIV, HNRS	Appropriate Technology for the World's People: Design	Yes
PSY 311		Environmental Psychology	Yes
RPTA 313		Sustainability in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism
RPTA 314		Sustainable Travel and Tourism Planning
SCM 316		Environmental Literacy: An Integrative STEM Approach
SCM 360		Selected Environmental Issues of the California's Central Coast	Yes
SOC 308		Sociology of the Environment
SOC 423	WGS	Gender and Work	USCP
SS 120		Introductory Soil Science	Yes
SS 130		Soils in Environmental and Agricultural Systems	Yes

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