Sustainability Courses

Incorporated in Camosun’s STARS submission was an inventory of academic offerings. The inventory identifies “sustainability courses” and “courses that include sustainability.” Such a list assists in bringing awareness to these course offerings and helps current and prospective students organize their academic studies. Additionally, such an inventory provides an important foundation for advancing sustainability integration in curriculum at Camosun.

Sustainability Courses

Sustainability courses are courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenge (e.g. the course contributes toward achieving principles outlined in the Earth Charter).

To produce a comprehensive list of sustainability courses, the Office of Sustainability reviewed a list of offered courses from the 2013-2014 academic year and conducted a preliminary analysis of which courses were about or included sustainability by reviewing their formal course descriptions.

These courses were categorized by department and then sent out to the Chairs of each department for review. The Chairs reviewed the course lists to assert the courses listed were either related to sustainability or not. The Chairs also added courses that were not already on the list. Specific professors were contacted, when necessary, and asked to provide an indication of how courses were related to sustainability if it was not obvious from the formal course description.

Course, Course NameSchool

BUS 261 - Business and Sustainability 

Business

CIVL 280 - Global Issues in Environmental Engineering

Trades & Technology

ELEX 121 - Renewable Energy Systems (Electronics)

Trades & Technology

ENVR 103 - Environmental Microbiology

Arts & Science

ENVR 107 - Environmental Geography

Arts & Science

ENVR 110 - Environmental Seminar 1

Arts & Science

ENVR 204 - Environmental Field Trips

Arts & Science

ENVR 206A - Environmental Horticulture

Arts & Science

ENVR 208A - Sustainability Research Project Design

Arts & Science

ENVR 208B - Sustainability Research Project

Arts & Science

ENVR 209 - Waste Management Remediation

Arts & Science

ENVR 222 - Urban & Regional Environments

Arts & Science

ENVR 240 - Environmental GIS Applications

Arts & Science

GEOG 100 - Environment and Sustainability

Arts & Science

MARK 360 - Sustainable Marketing

Business

PHIL 204 - Ethics: Animals to Ecosystems

Arts & Science

TMGT 361 - Sustaining Tourism Performance

Business

Courses that Include Sustainability

A course that includes sustainability is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability issues throughout the course.

Course, Course NameSchool

ACCT 220 - Management Cost Accounting 1

Business

ANTH 204 - Anthropology of Food

Arts & Science

BIOL 102 - Non - Majors Biology (Diversity)

Arts & Science

BIOL 105 - Introduction to Marine Biology

Arts & Science

BIOL 228 – Ecology

Arts & Science

BUS 150 - Introduction to Management

Business

BUS 220 - Organizational Behaviour

Business

BUS 280 – Entrepreneurship

Business

BUS 450 - International Management

Business

CFCS 110 - Foundations for Practice

Health & Human Services

CFCS 141 - Service Learning

Health & Human Services

CFCS 160 - Family and Community 1

Health & Human Services

CFCS 210 - Diversity across the lifespan

Health & Human Services

CFCS 250 - Social Justice Today

Health & Human Services

CHEM 253  - Environmental Chemistry

Arts & Science

CIVL 255 - Urban Services 1

Trades & Technology

CIVL 153 - Surveying 3

Trades & Technology

CIVL 162 - Soils 1

Trades & Technology

CIVL 268 - Construction Materials

Trades & Technology

CIVL 276 – Hydrology

Trades & Technology

CIVL 282 - Water Treatment

Trades & Technology

CIVL 283 - Sewage Treatment

Trades & Technology

CIVL 293 - Structural Design 1

Trades & Technology

CIVL 297 - Structural Design 2

Trades & Technology

CIVL 298 - Structural Design Project

Trades & Technology

COMP 158E - Computing for Environment

Trades & Technology

ECON 103  - Principles of Microeconomics

Business

ELEX 290 - Applied Research Project

Trades & Technology

ENVR 200 - Safety in the Environment

Arts & Science

ENVR 203 - Aquatic Monitoring Techniques

Arts & Science

ENVR 206B - Environmental Biotechnology

Arts & Science

ENVR 207 - Applied Geomorphology

Arts & Science

ENVR 210 - Aquatic Environments

Arts & Science

ENVR 218 - Environmental Field Camp

Arts & Science

ENVR 242 - Vertebrate Diversity & Ecology

Arts & Science

ENVR 244 - Invertebrate Diversity/Ecology

Arts & Science

ENVR 246 - Plant Diversity & Ecology

Arts & Science

ETP 033 - Food Production Gardening

Access

GBST 100 - Global Studies 1

Arts & Science

GEOG 102 - Human Geography

Arts & Science

GEOG 103 - Globalization and World Religions

Arts & Science

GEOG 220 - Natural Resources Systems

Arts & Science

GEOG 232 - Cultural Geography

Arts & Science

GEOG 236 - Geography of Cities

Arts & Science

GEOG 240  - Globalization of Asia

Arts & Science

GEOG 250 - Latin America and the Caribbean

Arts & Science

GEOG 260 - Geographies of Development

Arts & Science

GEOG 272 - Weather and Climate

Arts & Science

GEOG 274 – Biogeography

Arts & Science

GEOG 276 – Geomorphology

Arts & Science

GEOS 100 - Physical Geology

Arts & Science

GEOS 110 - Earth and Ocean Atmospheric Systems

Arts & Science

GEOS 240 - Sedimentary Geology

Arts & Science

GEOS 250 - Introduction to Mineralogy

Arts & Science

HLTH 110 - Health in Today's World

Health & Human Services

HLTH 111 - Indigenous Community Health

Health & Human Services

HORT 108 - Pests and Pesticide Application

Trades & Technology

HORT 134 - Organic Vegetable Production

Trades & Technology

IBL 260 - Current Indigenous Business Topics

Business

MECH 262 - Thermodynamics 2

Trades & Technology

MECH 275 - Environmental Engineering

Trades & Technology

MECH 299 - Engineering and Society

Trades & Technology

SOC 120 - Social Systems and The Environment

Arts & Science

SOC 211 - Introduction to Africa

Arts & Science

SOSC 203 - Service Learning and Global Issues

Arts & Science

 Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 2

Trades & Technology

 Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 1

Trades & Technology

 Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 2

Trades & Technology

Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 3

Trades & Technology

Electrical Foundations

Trades & Technology

Professional Cook Level 1

Trades & Technology

Professional Cook Level 3

Trades & Technology

Contact information

Office of Sustainability

Campus location

Isabel Dawson Building, room 119A

Location link

Lansdowne campus

250-370-3401

sustainability@camosun.ca