List of Courses
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There are courses dealing with sustainability issues in dozens of departments at the University of Utah. Courses do change frequently so please contact the Office of Sustainability if any changes need to be made.
Anthropology
Architecture
- ARCH 1611: "Building Communities" Architecture and Planning LEAP II
- ARCH 3371/6371: Materials & Construction
- ARCH 4010: Architectural Studio III
- ARCH 4112/6112: Sustainable Site Planning
- ARCH 4350/6350: Environmental Controls I
- ARCH 4372/6372: Technology in Architecture
- ARCH 6352: Advanced Technology: Sustainable Design
- ARCH 6353: Advanced Technology: Building Performance Analysis
- ARCH 6500: Historic Preservation Theory & Practice
- ARCH 6581: Main Street Revitalization
- ARCH 6831: Open Space Design
Atmospheric Sciences
- ATMOS 1020:Climate Change
- ATMOS 3100:Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution
- ATMOS 5120: Weather Discussion
- ATMOS 5270: Wind Power Meteorology
- ATMOS 5400: Earth Climate Systems
- ATMOS 5410:Remote Sensing of the Environment
- ATMOS 6030:Earth Climate System
- ATMOS 6120:Applied Mathematics and Statistics for Environmental Scientists
Bioengineering
Biology
- BIOL 1330: Plants & Society
- BIOL 1340: Ecological Principles of Organic Gardening
- BIOL 1350: Literature of Ecology
- BIOL 1400: Introduction to Environmental Science
- BIOL 2400: Principles of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- BIOL 3045: Landscape Ecology
- BIOL 3440: Global Change Ecology
- BIOL 3460: Global Environmental Issues
- BIOL 5440: Urban Ecology
- BIOL 5460: Plant Ecology in a Changing World
- BIOL 5490: Ecosystem Ecology
- BIOL 5495: Biophysical Ecology
- BIOL 5960: Advanced Special Topics in Biology
- BIOL 6921: Isotopics
- BIOL 6964: Special Topics in Ecology and Evolution Biology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
City & Metropolitan Planning
- CMP 2010:Foundations of Urban Ecology
- CMP 3100:Urban & Environmental Planning: History & Practice
- CMP 3300: Advanced Urban Ecology
- CMP 3390: Fostering Sustainability: Scientific & Human Perspectives
- CMP 4380/6380: Green Communities
- CMP 4400: Salt Lake City Workshop
- CMP 4960: Empathic Sustainability
- CMP 5330:Urban Growth Management
- CMP 5350:Public Lands and Environmental Policy
- CMP 5360:Environmental Planning Law and Policy
- CMP 5370:System Dynamics and Environmental Policy
- CMP 5390/6390: Sustainability Planning
- CMP 5420/6420:Open Space Design
- CMP 5720/6720:Land Use & Transportation Policy
- CMP 6200: Urbanization
- CMP 6330: Urban Growth Management
- CMP 6500: Preservation Theory & Practice
- CMP 6610: Urban Ecology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CVEEN 3610: Introduction to Environmental Engineering I
- CVEEN 4410: Engineering Hydrology
- CVEEN 5555: Environmental Engineering Seminar
- CVEEN 5560/6560:Transportation Planning
- CVEEN 5605/6605: Water & Wastewater Treatment Design
- CVEEN 5610/6610: Water Chemistry & Laboratory Analysis
- CVEEN 5920: Special Topics: Sustainable Infrastructure
- CVEEN 6630: Environmental Bioremediation
- CVEEN 6640: Environmental Laboratory Analysis
- CVEEN 6650: Design of Biological Treatment Processes
- CVEEN 6660: System Dynamics and Environmental Policy
- CVEEN 7470: Systems Analysis Applications in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
- CVEEN 7590: Public Transportation Systems
- CVEEN 7680: Design of Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems
- CVEEN 7690: Design of Industrial Water and Wastewater Systems
Communication
- COMM 3030: Communication and Social Responsibility
- COMM 3115: Communicating Science, Health, Environment
- COMM 3490:Communication and Public Issues: Special Topics
- COMM 4360: Consuming the Earth
- COMM 4620: Communication, Globalization, and Transnational Issues
- COMM 4670: Specialty Reporting: Environmental Reporting
- COMM 5360/6360: Environmental Communication
- COMM 5370/6370: Environmental Communication, Special Topics
- COMM 5380: Interdisciplinary Applications in Community Engagement
- COMM 5420/6420: Contemporary Social Movements
- COMM 5490/6490: Communication & Social Justice
- COMM 5615/6615: Globalization & Media
- COMM 5670/6670: Activism and New Media
- COMM 7200: Environmental Communication
- COMM 7210: Seminar: Managing Environmental Conflict
- COMM 7310: Communication & Community Engagement
- COMM 7490: Contemporary Issues in Communication & Social Justice
Economics
- ECON 1060: The Political Economy of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
- ECON 3250: Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- ECON 5180: Poverty and Inequality
- ECON 5240: Urban Economics
- ECON 5250/6250: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- ECON 5260/6260: Energy Policy Options for Utah
- ECON 5420/6420: China and the Global Economy
- ECON 7250: Advanced Natural Resource Economics
- ECON 7251: Advanced Environmental Economics
- ECON 7560: Economic Development I
- ECON 7561: Economic Development II
Electrical and Computer Engineering
English
- ENGL 3080: Studies in Environmental Literature
- ENGL 3780: Global/Transnational Literature
- ENGL 5080: Studies in Environmental Literature
- ENGL 5980: Ecocriticism
Environmental Studies
- All of the courses offered through the Environmental Studies Program have a sustainability focus. Please see the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program Courses for the complete list of classes.
Ethnic Studies
- ETHNC 3180: American Indian Land, Waters, and Resources
- ETHNC 5800: Theories and research on Social Inequality
Family and Consumer Studies
- FCS 3420: Housing Policy and Issues
- FCS 3470: International Consumer Policy
- FCS 3600: Introduction to Consumer and Community Policy
- FCS 3620: Environment and Behavior
- FCS 5300/6300: Housing and Community Development
- FCS 5450/6450: Nonprofit Community Organizations
- FCS 5600/6600: Environments and Human Behavior
- FCS 5620/6620: Advanced Environment and Behavior
- FCS 5630/6630: Healthy Communities
- FCS 5700/6700: Research for Consumer and Community Needs
- FCS 5730/6730: Community and Environmental Change
- FCS 5966: Special Topics in Environment and Behavior
Family and Preventative Medicine
- FPMD 4500: Public Health: A Global Perspective
- FPMD 5530: Global Health
- FPMD 6705: Environmental & Occupational Medicine
- FPMD 6708: Human Health & the Environment
- FPMD 6950: Readings in Public Health
- FPMD 6954: Independent Study in Public Health
- FPMD 7440: Occupational & Environmental Health
Geography
- GEOG 1000: Earth Environments and Global Change
- GEOG 1001: Energy Resources in a Sustainable World
- GEOG 1020: Geography of America's National Parks
- GEOG 1100: Exploring the World Through Google Earth
- GEOG 1400: Human Geography
- GEOG 3110: The Earth from Space: Remote Sensing of the Environment
- GEOG 3205/5205: Regional and Global Climates
- GEOG 3210/5210: Global Climate Change
- GEOG 3230/5230: Pyrogeography: Fire, Humans, and the Environment
- GEOG 3250/5250: The Crystal Desert: Antarctica & Global Change
- GEOG 3270: Biogeography: Global Patterns of Life
- GEOG 3280: Mountain Weather and Climate
- GEOG 3290: Water in Utah
- GEOG 3292/5292: Snow and Ice
- GEOG 3310: Introduction to Natural Hazards
- GEOG 3330: Urban Environmental Geography
- GEOG 3340/5340: Geography of Disasters and Emergency Management
- GEOG 3341: Technological Hazards
- GEOG 3350: Resource Conservation and Environmental Management
- GEOG 3360/5360: Ocean Environments
- GEOG 3370/5370: Utah's Energy Landscape
- GEOG 3375/5375: Sustainable Transportation
- GEOG 3385/5385: Environmental Assessment & Impact Analysis
- GEOG 3400/5400: Population Geography
- GEOG 3440/5440: Global Economic Geography
- GEOG 3480: Urban Geography
- GEOG 5110/6110: Environmental Analysis Through Remote Sensing
- GEOG 5120/6120: Environmental Optics
- GEOG 5190/6190: GIS & Environmental and Public Health
- GEOG 5200: Geomorphology: Mountains, Rivers, Deserts
- GEOG 5220/6220: Land Use Planning
- GEOG 5270: Biogeography: Global Patterns of Life
- GEOG 5275/6275: Vegetation & Climate Change
- GEOG 5280/6280: Quaternary Environments: Deep History of the Desert Southwest
- GEOG 5290: Water in Utah
- GEOG 5300/6300: Advanced Natural Hazards
- GEOG 5350: Public Lands and Environmental Policy
- GEOG 6510: Urban Geography: Cities, Regions & Globalization
- GEOG 6950: Seminar in Geographic Problems
Geology and Geophysics
- GEO 1000: Natural Disasters: Hollywood vs. Reality
- GEO 1001: Energy Resources in a Sustainable World
- GEO 1010: Architecture of the Earth
- GEO 1050: National Parks: Geology Behind the Scenery
- GEO 1060: Global Environmental Change and Natural Resources
- GEO 1110: Introduction to Earth Systems
- GEO 1115: Laboratory for Introduction to Earth Systems
- GEO 3010: Geophysics
- GEO 3080: Earth Materials I
- GEO 3090: Earth Materials II
- GEO 3200: Natural Disasters
- GEO 3300: The Water Planet
- GEO 5150: Geological Engineering Design
- GEO 5200: Depositional Environments
- GEO 5340/6340: System Dynamics and Environmental Policy
- GEO 5341/6341: Complexity and Systems Thinking
- GEO 5350/6350: Groundwater
- GEO 5370/6370: Contaminant Partitioning for Engineers and Scientists
- GEO 5385/6385: Introduction to Groundwater Modeling
- GEO 5390/6390: Solute Transport and Subsurface Remediation
- GEO 6550: Environmental Geochemistry
Gerontology
Health Promotion and Education
- H EDU 1010: Healthy Lifestyles
- H EDU 3700: Environmental Health
- H EDU 5050: Health Concerns in the Developing World
- H EDU 5060: International Health Promotion
- H EDU 5100: Health Care in the United States
- H EDU 5300: Diversity and Health
History
- HIST 4370: History of American Social Movements
- HIST 4380: US Environmental History
- HIST 4840/6840: Global Environmental History
- HIST 4855/6855: Environmental History of India
- HIST 4860/6860: Environmental History of China
Honors
- HONOR 3045: Landscape Ecology
- HONOR 3235: Introduction to Ecology in an Urban Setting: an Integrated Approach
- HONOR 3377: International Consumer Policy
- HONOR 3420: Environmental Writing
- HONOR 3730: Justice & International Affairs
- HONOR 4300: Natural Disasters
Humanities
- HUM 6101: Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- HUM 6102: Field Methods in Environmental Humanities
- HUM 4103/6103: The Ecology of Residency
- HUM 6105: EH Writing Seminar
- HUM 6120: Environmental Humanities Internship
- HUM 7769: Law of Climate Change
Law
- LAW 7200: Natural Resources
- LAW 7220: Oil and Gas
- LAW 7230: Water Law
- LAW 7240: Environmental Law & Policy
- LAW 7250: Advanced Natural Resource Topic
- LAW 7260: Environmental Practice
- LAW 7261: Clin-Environmental
- LAW 7280: International Environmental Law
- LAW 7632: Environmental Planning Law & Policy
- LAW 7700: Land Use Control
- LAW 7766: Environmental Law: Pollution Control
- LAW 7769: Law of Climate Change
- LAW 7774: Environmental Law and Engineering
- LAW 7782: Justice Through Research: A Think Tank on Global Justice Issues
- LAW 7790: Energy Law
- LAW 7796: Mining Law
- LAW 7830: International Environmental Practicum
- LAW 7831: Climate Change Think Tank
- LAW 7865: Health Law & Human Rights
Materials Science and Engineering
- MSE 2601: Materials Molding Civilization
- MSE 5074/6074: Photovoltaic Materials & Solar Cells
- MSE 5470/6470: Polymer & Organic Materials for Renewable Energy Applications I
Mechanical Engineering
- ME EN 2500: Introduction to Sustainable Energy Systems Design I: Wind & Water Power
- ME EN 2510: Introduction to Sustainable Energy Systems Design II: Thermal & Solar Power
- ME EN 5060/6060: Sustainable Products & Processes
- ME EN 5800/6800:Sustainable Energy Engineering
- ME EN 5810/6810:Thermal Systems Design
- ME EN 5820/6820:Thermal Environmental Engineering
- ME EN 7800: Advanced Energy Systems
Metallurgical Engineering
- MET E 1001: Energy Resources in a Sustainable World
- MET E 3015: Global Influence of Metals
- MET E 5320/6320: Materials Engineering & Environment
- MET E 5555: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Mining Engineering
- MG EN 5040: Engineering Design
- MG EN 5080: Mine Permitting & Reclamation
- MG EN 5150: Mechanics of Materials
Nursing
- NURS 3110: Nursing Across Systems and Populations
- NURS 4110: Global Health
- NURS 7420: Social Deeterminants of Health
Nutrition
- NUTR 3550: Healthy Weight for Life
- NUTR 3620: Cultural Aspects of Food
- NUTR 3850: Special Topics: Eating for Justice, Sustainability & Health
- NUTR 6220:Nutrition Policy: Domestic and Global
Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
- PRT 3040: Environmental Ethics
- PRT 3042: Natural Resources Learning: Leadership and Wilderness Skills Practicum
- PRT 3050: Natural Resources Learning, Federal Lands: Wilderness Safety and Survival
- PRT 3500: Foundations of Outdoor Recreation Studies
- PRT 3610: The Global Citizen: Responsible Travel & International Life
- PRT 4430: Environmental Interpretation & Communication
- PRT 4440: Field Seminar in Environmental Interpretation
- PRT 5170: Foundations of Environmental Education
- PRT 5175: Techniques in Environmental Education
- PRT 5180: Field Ecology in PRT
- PRT 5410: Land & Resource Recreation Planning
- PRT 5420: Ecology & Management of Wildland Recreation Settings
- PRT 5610: Contemporary Issues in International Tourism
- PRT 5620: Issues in International Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism
- PRT 5710: Adventure and Outdoor Programming I
- PRT 5720: Adventure and Outdoor Programming II
- PRT 5740: Adventure and Outdoor Programming III
- PRT 5965: On-Site Policy Analysis
- PRT 6050: Environmental Ethics
- PRT 6052: Advanced Natural Resources Learning: Leadership and Wilderness Skills Practicum
- PRT 6055: Seminar in Sustainable Tourism & Ecotourism
- PRT 6170: Foundations of Environmental Education
- PRT 6175: Techniques in Environmental Education
- PRT 6410: Land & Resource Recreation Planning
- PRT 6420: Ecology & Management of Wildland Recreation Settings
- PRT 6610: Contemporary Issues in International Tourism
- PRT 6620: Issues in International Ecotourism & Sustainable Tourism
- PRT 6740: Adventure and Outdoor Programming III
- PRT 6965: On-Site Policy Analysis
- PRT 7055: Seminar in Sustainable Tourism & Ecotourism
- PRT 7100: Theory Development, Trends, and Issues in PRT
For outdoor adventure programs offered by the Parks, Recreation and Tourism:
- Land - http://www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/crsdesc/prtl.html
- Snow - http://www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/crsdesc/prts.html
- Water - http://www.acs.utah.edu/GenCatalog/crsdesc/prtw.html
Philosophy
- PHIL 1001:Intro: Philosophy and ethical dilemmas in the contemporary world
- PHIL 3310:Science and Society
- PHIL 3500:Ethics
- PHIL 3530:Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 3730: Justice & International Affairs
- PHIL 4540:Engineering, Ethics, and Society
- PHIL 5530:Environmental Philosophy
- PHIL 5540: Hydrotopia: Water Rights & the Environment
- PHIL 5710: International Human Rights
- PHIL 6540: Engineering, Ethics, and Society
Physics
- PHYS 3150/5150:Energy and Sustainability: A Global Perspective
- PHYS 3160: Renewable Energy in Costa Rica
Political Science
- POLS 3170: Interest Groups
- POLS 3390: Introduction to Environmental & Sustainability Policy
- POLS 3550: Comparative Politics of Latin America
- POLS 3620: United Nations
- POLS 3680: Globalization & World Politics
- POLS 5322/6322: Environmental & Sustainability Policy
- POLS 5500: The Politics of Public Lands Management
- POLS 5510: The Politics of Western Water Policy
- POLS 5550/6550: Nonprofit Sector & Organizations
- POLS 5560/6560: Developing Revenue in Nonprofit Organizations
- POLS 5570/6570: Management of Nonprofit Organizations
- POLS 5590: American Indian Policy
- POLS 6563: Program & Policy Evaluation
Psychology
- PSY 3620:Environment and Behavior
- PSY 4130:Cognition in the Wild
- PSY 5400/6400:Advanced Environment and Behavior
- PSY 5600/6600:Environments and Human Behavior
Public Administration
- PADMN 6322: Environmental & Sustainability Policy
- PADMN 6550: Nonprofit Sectors and Organizations
- PADMN 6560:Developing Revenue in Nonprofit Organizations
- PADMN 6570:Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Sociology
- SOC 1020: Current Social Problems in America
- SOC 3435: Inequality, Power & Globalization
- SOC 3480: Environmental Sociology
- SOC 3486: Comparative Environmental Sociology
- SOC 3650: Population & Society
- SOC 3653: Global Population Problems
- SOC 4674/6674: Global Health
- SOC 5657/6657: World Populations Policies & Problems
- SOC 6085: Cities & Communities
Teaching and Learning
- T L 5175:Environmental Education
- T L 5280/6280:Early Childhood Natural and Social Science Methods
- T L 6731:Research in Science Teaching and Learning
Undergraduate Studies
- UGS 2100: Introduction to Environmental Studies
- UGS 3101: Honors People & Place I
- UGS 4500: Public Health: A Global Perspective
University Writing Program
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