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Theme S: Sustainability and Justice

Goal 1: Students will understand how social, economic, and environmental factors contribute to local and global conditions and future challenges regarding sustainability and justice.

Outcome 1A: Students will identify at least two factors that influence sustainability and/or justice
Outcome 1B: Students will analyze the connectedness between at least two factors that influence sustainability and/or justice.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

For a course to be approved it must:

  1. Demonstrate ‘Sustainability and Justice’ as an organizing principle of the course, including at least two factors that influence sustainability and justice.
  2. Include assignments that contribute to at least 40% of the student’s grade that address understanding and analysis of factors that influence sustainability and justice.
  3. For lower-division Theme course, EITHER have an explicit course connection to a foundational skill OR reinforce a foundational skill.
  4. For an upper-division Theme course, reinforce at least two foundational skills. Area B Courses must reinforce quantitative reasoning skills and one other skill; Area C and D Courses must reinforce critical thinking and one other skill.
  5. Rubrics used to evaluate learning outcomes will be made available to students and incorporate the essential dimensions identified by GECCo.

CURRENTLY APPROVED COURSES FOR THEME S

ANTH 2308 – Native Peoples of Northern America

PHIL 3368 - Environmental Philosophy

ANTH 3318 – Peoples of Mexico

PHIL 3528 - Personhood

BA 3108 – Business, Government & Society

PLSI 3428 - California Politics

COMM 3058 – Intercultural Communication

PLSI 3648 - Food Politics and Policy

CRJU 3318 – Women and the CJ System

PPA 3408 – Policy Networks

CRJU 3448 – Drugs & Crime

PSYC 3658 – Psych of Good & Evil

CRJU 4638 – Victims & CJ System

RS 1108 - Jesus, Buddha, Moral Life

ECON 3418 – Energy Economics and Policy

RS 3528 – The Holocaust & Its Impact

ECON 3508 – Environmental Econ

RS 4528 – Rel, Ethics, and Soc Justice

ECON 4108 - International Econ Development

 SCI 3129 - Environmental Chem & Sust. 

ECON 4588 - Labor Economics

SCI 3329 - Water and the West

ENGL 2408 – Intro to World Literature

SCI 3409 - Statistical Measures of Inequalities

ENGL 3268 - Writing Nature: Literature and the Environment

SCI 3639 - Intro to Weather Dynamics

HIST 3258 - The American Environment

SOC 3318 - The Asian-American Experience in the US
PHIL 1319 – Contemporary Moral Issues SOC 3408 – Gender & Society
PHIL 3338 – Business Ethics SOC 4008 - Society and the Natural Environment
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