SF State Studies: Environmental Sustainability [ES]
Courses approved for the SF State Studies Environmental Sustainability requirement must examine some aspect of environmental sustainability. The perspective can be from any area of the university curriculum, such as social sciences, natural sciences, arts, humanities, business, or engineering.
Courses certified as meeting the SF State Studies requirements may be upper or lower division, may be in General Education (GE), a major or minor, or may be an elective. Not all of the courses listed below are approved for General Education. Please refer to the General Education area of the Bulletin to verify if a course is GE and what area it satisfies.
- AA S 587 Asian Americans and Environmental Justice [AERM][ES][SJ]
- ADM 665 Product Development for Apparel [ES]
- AIS 160 Survey of Native California [AERM][ES]
- AIS 410 Perspectives of Native California Indians [AERM][ES]
- BIOL 170 Animal Diversity [ES]
- BIOL 300 Nature Study [ES]
- BIOL 310 Biology for Today's World [ES]
- BIOL 318 Our Endangered Planet [ES] (provisionally approved)
- CFS 543 Sustainability in the Textile, Housing and Food Industries [ES]
- C W 508 Introduction to Environmental Literature [ES]
- CHEM 180 Chemistry for Energy and the Environment [ES]
- CHEM 380/ Chemistry Behind Environmental Pollution [ES]
- ENVS 380 Chemistry Behind Environmental Pollution [ES]
- COMM 448 GW Rhetoric of Ecology - GWAR (4) [ES]
- E ED 615 Environmental Education in ECE [ES]
- ENG 465 Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction [ES]
- ENG 535 Literature and Ecology [ES]
- ENVS 300 Environmental Studies [ES]
- ENVS 470 Climate Politics and Policy [ES][GP]
- ENVS 570 Campus Sustainability [ES]
- ENVS 600/ Environmental Problems and Solutions [ES][GP]
- GEOG 600 Environmental Problems and Solutions [ES][GP]
- ERTH 110 Our Dynamic Earth [ES]
- ERTH 112 Our Dynamic Earth Lecture and Lab (4) [ES]
- ERTH 115 History of Life [ES]
- ERTH 170 Our Dynamic Ocean [ES]
- ERTH 172 Our Dynamic Ocean Lecture and Lab (4) [ES]
- ERTH 210 Physical Geology (4) [ES]
- ERTH 230 Environmental Geology [ES]
- ERTH 310 The Violent Earth [ES]
- ERTH 325 Geology of the National Parks [ES]
- ERTH 330 California Water [ES]
- ERTH 335 Global Warming [ES][GP]
- ERTH 360 California Weather Events [ES][GP]
- ERTH 365 Extreme Weather in a Warming World [ES]
- GEOG 101 Our Physical Environment [ES]
- GEOG 102 The Human Environment [ES][GP]
- GEOG 160 Introduction to Environmental Science (4) [ES][GP]
- GEOG 421 Future Environments [ES][GP][SJ]
- GEOG 427 Agriculture and Food Supply [ES][GP]
- GEOG 430 Transforming Food and Agriculture Systems: Local to Global [ES][GP][SJ]
- GEOG 432/ Urban Geography (4) [ES][GP]
- USP 432 Urban Geography [ES][GP]
- GEOG 552 Geography of California [AERM][ES][SJ]
- GEOG 651/ San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Issues (4) [ES]
- USP 651 San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Issues (4) [ES]
- GEOG 666 Geography of Garbage: Recycling and Waste Reduction [ES]
- GPS 315/ Introduction to Global Peace Studies [ES][GP][SJ]
- I R 315/ Introduction to Global Peace Studies [ES][GP][SJ]
- PHIL 315 Introduction to Global Peace Studies [ES][GP][SJ]
- H ED 100 Public Health Biology [ES]
- HH 200 Holistic Approach to Academic Success [LLD][ES]
- H ED 455 Community Organizing and Community Building for Health [LLD][AERM][ES][GP][SJ]
- HH 535 Western Nutrition and Herbs [LLD][ES]
- HIST 327 The Medieval Mediterranean [ES][GP]
- HUM 376 Biography of a City: San Francisco [ES]
- HUM 380 Nature and Human Values [ES]
- I R 104 Introduction to World Affairs [ES][GP][SJ]
- I R 324 Middle East and North Africa in International Relations [ES][GP]
- I R 331/ Global Environmental Crisis (4) [ES][GP][SJ]
- ENVS 331 Global Environmental Crisis (4) [ES][GP][SJ]
- LS 401 Social Sciences Core II [ES][GP]
- LTNS 210 Latina/Latino Health Care Perspectives [AERM][ES][GP][SJ]
- LTNS 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Cultures of the Americas [AERM[ES]
- PHIL 351 Philosophy of Risk [ES]
- PHIL 355/ Politics and Ethics of the Consumer Society [ES][SJ]
- PLSI 355 Politics and Ethics of the Consumer Society [ES][SJ]
- PHIL 470 Environmental Ethics [ES][SJ]
- PLSI 354 Politics, the Environment, and Social Change [ES][SJ]
- RPT 520 Parks and Outdoor Recreation Resources [ES]
- RPT 605 Ecotourism Principles and Practices [ES][GP][SJ]
- RRS 276 Race, Activism and Climate Justice [AERM][ES][GP][SJ]
- RRS 655 Comparative Border Studies: Palestine and Mexico [AERM][ES][GP][SJ]
- SCI 101 First Year Experience in Science and Engineering [LLD][ES]
- USP 514 Sustainable Development in Cities (4) [ES][SJ]
- USP 515/ Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Environment (4) [ES][GP][SJ]
- GEOG 667 Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Environment (4) [ES][GP][SJ]
- WGS 593 Gender, Health, and the Environment [ES][GP]
Abbreviations
AERM: American Ethnic and Racial Minorities
ES: Environmental Sustainability
GP: Global Perspectives
LLD: Area E (Lifelong Learning and Self-Development)
SJ: Social Justice
