Courses
What courses does the School of Global Environmental Sustainability offer?
CSU presently offers a wide variety of sustainability-oriented courses spanning many colleges and disciplines.
A list containing a sample of these existing courses can be found at www.green.colostate.edu/courses.aspx.
At its current state, the School of Global Environmental Sustainability is focusing on integrating environmental sustainability into existing curriculum in addition to expanding its plans for new courses. The courses currently being developed will also be offered beginning in 2009-10.
SoGES Endorsed Courses for the Fall Semester of 2009:
AREC 460 Economics of World Agriculture
Instructor: Andrew Seidl
Course Description: Relationships between nations affecting agricultural growth and productivity, food security, and human welfare.
College: Agricultural Sciences
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
AREC/ECON 340 Introduction to Natural Resource Economics
Instuctor: Craig Bond
Course Description: Concepts, theories, institutions; analytical methods for economic evaluation of alternative resource use patterns and land use plans.
College: Agricultural Sciences
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
AREC 346 Economics of Outdoor Recreation
Instructor: John Loomis
Course Description: Benefit-cost framework in public planning for outdoor recreation, pricing problems, projecting demand, and regional economic development.
College: Agricultural Sciences
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
BZ 572 Phytoremediation
Instructor: Elizabeth Pilon-Smits
Course Description: Environmental cleanup using plants.
College: Natural Sciences
Department: Biology
CE 544 Water Resources Planning and Management
Instructor: Neil S. Grigg
Course Description: Management and planning of natural and constructed water systems. Integrated management and case studies of water use and environmental resources.
College: Engineering
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
MATH 48/BZ 348 Theory of Population and Evolutionary Ecology
Instructor: Colleen Webb
Course Description: Principles and methods for building, analyzing, and interpreting mathematical models of ecological and evolutionary problems in biology.
College: Natural Sciences
Department: Biology
MGT 360 Social and Sustainable Venturing
Instructors: Thomas Dean, Paul Hudnut, Yolanda Sarason
Course Description: Entrepreneurship and economic opportunities in the transition to a socially and ecologically sustainable global economy.
College: Business
Department: Management
NR 480 Global Sustainability-AG/Grassland Systems
Instructor: Richard Conant
Course Description: NA
Warner College of Natural Resources
Natural Resources
PHIL 345 Environmental Ethics
Instructor: Philip Cafaro
Course Description: Scientific, philosophical, and religious concepts of nature as they bear on human conduct; an ecological perspective.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Philosophy
POLS 362 Global Environmental Politics
Instructor: Michele Betsill
Course Description: Cross-national and international contexts of environmental politics and policy.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Political Science
SOC 320 Population, Natural Resources, and Environment
Instructor: Sammy Zahran
Course Description: Population studies; world growth patterns and their relationship to natural resources and environment.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
SOC 463 Sociology of Disasters/Society of Disasters
Instructor: Sammy Zahran
Course Description: Determinants and consequences of behavior and response to environmental extremes including floods, earthquakes, wind, severe storms, and technological emergencies.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Sociology
BSPM 365 Integrated Tree Health Management
Instructor: Bill Jacobi
Course Description: Insects and diseases in forest and urban ecosystems. Effects, diagnosis, prevention, and interactions. ($)
College: Agricultural Sciences
Department: Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
POLS 361 U.S. Environmental Politics and Policy
Instructor: Dr. Pamela Duncan
Course Description: Public and contemporary issues relating to U.S. environmental policy.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Political Science
POLS 670 Politics of Growth and Sustainability
Instructor: Sandra Davis
Course description: Domestic, international, and comparative dimensions of environment and natural resource politics and policy.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Political Science
POLS 709 Environmental Politics in the U.S.
Instructor: Robert Duffy
Course Description: Selected primary materials on governmental performance, groups, and mass public in American environmental politics.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Political Science
POLS 729 Political Theory and the Environment Department
Instructor: Bradley J. Macdonald
Course Description: Political thought applied to questions of the environment.
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Political Science