CSUDH educates students and prepares them for careers in various industries and fields related to the environment. Below is a list of the sustainability-related offerings.
Degrees
- BS in Earth Science
- BA in Geography
- MS in Environmental Science
- BS in Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Option
- BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Studies Concentration
- BA in Liberal Studies, Natural Science Option
Courses
- ANT 101 | Biological Anthropology
- ANT 495 | Special Topics: Traditional Mesoamerican Agriculture and Sustainability
- EAR 460 | Global Change
- EAR 490 | Senior Seminar in Earth Sciences
- EAR 496 | Internship in Earth Sciences
- GEO 357 | Urban Environmental Geography
- GEO 416 | Earth's Climates
- GEO 495 | Special Topics: Sustainability & Geodiversity in the Balkans
- HEA 466 | Environmental Health Problems
- PHI 340 | Environmental Ethics
A full list of identified courses is available for download in PDF format here:
Do you have a sustainability course or major/minor not listed here? Are you conducting sustainability research that is not part of the list? Contact sustainability@csudh.edu.
Looking to add sustainability into your courses?
The Office of Sustainability is here to help! We can provide campus data on energy, water, and waste for service-learning courses and student research projects. We also can conduct guest presentations on a variety of sustainability topics and/or tours of campus features such as the Central Plant Tunnels, Campus Urban Farm, and the Net Zero Innovation Center.
Living Laboratory Experiences & Opportunities:
- Hands-On Sustainability Class Projects & Research: Classes regularly engage in ongoing campus sustainability projects with the Office of Sustainability. Past examples have included class projects to support community-based social marketing efforts, user behavior change campaigns, campus waste audits, lighting assessments, and more!
- Contact sustainability@csudh.edu if interested in engaging your classroom in on-campus sustainability projects as part of your coursework.
- Past Projects: A partial collection of the many research papers, class projects, and other examples of past living laboratory projects conducted with the Office of Sustainability and/or campus living lab venues are available in this Dropbox folder (password "CSUDH")
Physical Living Laboratory Venues & Resources:
Current Living Laboratory Opportunities:
Utilizing the campus as a living laboratory to further academic learning in sustainability is an ongoing priority for CSUDH Sustainability and Facilities Services. While the list below summarizes the immediate and/or high priority projects related to sustainability, it is not necessarily comprehensive. If you have an idea for a potential project not listed here, please still e-mail sustainability@csudh.edu to discuss.
- Zero Waste Projects: There are ongoing projects related to strengthening the campus zero waste program in a variety of ways. This includes fulfilling needs related to waste tracking, campus user behavior change, social campaigns, mapping of waste infrastructure and more!
- Organic Herbicides: In the ongoing pursuit of greener operations, Grounds is exploring alternatives to synthetic herbicides on campus. Research assistance is needed to evaluate effectiveness of potential organic replacements.
- Local Brownfields: In partnership with the City of Carson, CSUDH is involved with local community engagement, documentation/identification of brownfield sites, and supporting land reuse solutions related to brownfields- specifically local environmental justice issues related to the area's historic legacy of oil well abandonment.
- Research and grant activities related to abandoned oil-well mitigation are especially welcome as CSUDH has 26 known abandoned, capped former oil wells on its grounds that impede development.
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