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 | School |
|---|---|
BUS 261 - Organizations and Sustainability | |
GEOG 100 - Environment and Sustainability | |
MARK 360 - Sustainable Marketing | |
PHIL 204 - Ethics: Animals to Ecosystems | |
TMGT 361 - Sustaining Tourism Performance |
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 | School |
|---|---|
ACCT 220 - Management Cost Accounting 1 | |
ANTH 204 - Anthropology of Food | |
BIOL 102 - Non-Majors Biology (Diversity) | |
BIOL 105 - Introduction to Marine Biology | |
BIOL 228 – Ecology | |
BUS 150 - Introduction to Management | |
BUS 220 - Organizational Behaviour | |
BUS 280 – Entrepreneurship | |
BUS 450 - International Management | |
CFCS 110 - Foundations for Practice | |
CFCS 141 - Service Learning | |
CFCS 160 - Family and Community | |
CFCS 210 - Diversity across the lifespan | |
CFCS 250 - Social Justice Today | |
CHEM 253 - Environmental Chemistry | |
CIVE 255 - Municipal Design | |
CIVE 261 - Soils and Materials 1 | |
CIVE 276 – Hydrology | |
CIVE 278 - Water and Waste Management | |
CIVE 291 - Structural Design 1 | |
CIVE 292 - Structural Design 2 | |
ECON 103 - Principles of Microeconomics | |
ETP 021 - EARTH Gardening | |
GEOG 102 - Human Geography | |
GEOG 103 - Globalization and World Religions | |
GEOG 220 - Resource and Environmental Management | |
GEOG 232 - Cultural Studies in Geography | |
GEOG 236 - Geography of Cities | |
GEOG 272 - Weather and Climate | |
GEOG 274 – Environmental Biogeography | |
GEOG 276 – Geomorphology | |
GEOS 100 - Physical Geology | |
GEOS 110 - Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere Systems | |
HLTH 110 - Health and Wellness in Contemporary Society | |
HLTH 111 - Indigenous Peoples' Health | |
SOC 120 - The Environment and Society | |
SOC 211 - Introduction to Africa | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 2 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 1 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 2 | |
Electrical Apprenticeship - Year 4 Part 3 | |
Electrical Foundations | |
Professional Cook Level 1 | |
Professional Cook Level 3 |
Contact information
Office of Sustainability