SLS Affiliated Courses span all six Colleges. These courses teach students about "creating sustainable communities" from the perspective of their specific disciplines or course topics. They align with one or more parts of SLS' approach to creating sustainable communities.

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Life Cycle Assessment

Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
ISYE 8813, PUBP 8813
Affiliated Courses

Life Cycle Assessment, ISYE 8813 teaches the methods of evaluating life cycle environmental,…


Macroeconomics of Innovation

Fall 2017
ECON 7032
Affiliated Courses

The economy and the environment are tightly linked.  In this course, we explore the…


Macroeconomics of Innovation

Fall 2017
ECON 7032
Affiliated Courses

The economy and the environment are tightly linked.  In this course, we explore the…


Making the List: Banned Books, Best Sellers, and Best Of

Fall 2017
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

What makes a book a success? In this writing course, we will examine three measures of book…


Management in the Healthcare Sector

Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018
MGT 3662
Affiliated Courses

This course will explore the healthcare sector in its most comprehensive sense. It will analyze…


Managing Human Resources in a Regulated Environment

MGT 3102
Affiliated Courses

During this course, we discuss important concepts such as the legal aspects of HR, training,…


Materials Science for Engineers

Summer 2017
MSE 2001
Affiliated Courses

This course will try to impart basic knowledge on the sustainability challenges associated with…


Microbial Ecology

Spring 2017
BIOL 4410, BIOL 6410, EAS 8803 JK
Affiliated Courses

Most people think of microorganisms or microbes as harmful, causing disease or just stinking up…


Mineral Surface Geochemistry

Spring 2018
EAS 4803, EAS 8803
Affiliated Courses

The biogeochemical cyclings of elements among geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere…


Modern Iran: Social & Environmental Sustainability

Spring 2021
PERS 4001, PERS 8903
Affiliated Courses

This course is an exploration of social and environmental sustainability in Modern Iran with a…


Modern Iran: Tehran on Screen

Fall 2021, Fall 2020
PERS 4001, PERS 8903
Affiliated Courses

The course Modern Iran: Tehran on Screen is an exploration of modern Iran through cinematic…


Multimodal Transportation

Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
CEE 4610
Affiliated Courses, Sustainable Cities Minor

Planning, design and operation of systems of air, rail, water and highway facilities, including…


Narratives of Black Girlhood

Spring 2022, Spring 2021
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

This course will introduce students to varied narratives of Black girlhood through a series of…


Nature's Rhetoric

Spring 2018
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

This course explores how local institutions—including businesses, nonprofit organizations, and…


Nature, Governance, and Sustainability in Costa Rica

Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019
Study Abroad

This study abroad program will provide a unique opportunity for students to learn and live in…


Near Peer Mentoring: Experience in Urban Education

Fall 2022
HTS 2803
Affiliated Courses

Mentors improve the chances that a child facing social and economic disadvantages will beat the…


Near Peer Mentoring: An Urban Education Experience

HTS 2813
Affiliated Courses

This course challenges you to engage in near-peer mentoring while examining how race, poverty,…


Necessary Tomorrows: Afrofuturism in Art, Architecture, and Design

Fall 2017
ARCH 4833 MC, ARCH 8833 MC
Affiliated Courses

This hands-on seminar/workshop will curate, develop materials for, design, and install the…


Numerical Methods in Chemical Engineering

Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
CHBE 2120
Affiliated Courses

Many engineering problems require the use of advanced numerical methods for finding solutions to…


One World is Not Enough

ENGL 1102 F4, ENGL 1102 N2, ENGL 1102 HP1
Affiliated Courses

The course will explore work of contemporary novelists who draw from both eastern and western…


Optical Properties of Nanoparticles

Spring 2022
CHEM 8843
Affiliated Courses

This course is designed for graduate students in the school of chemistry and biochemistry. Also…


Organizational Behavior

Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
MGT 3101
Affiliated Courses

Organizational behavior (OB) is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand human…


Organizing for Social Change

Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
HTS 2803
Affiliated Courses

What kinds of knowledge, skills, and practices help people work…


Philosophy of Food

Fall 2019, Fall 2018
PHIL 3140-JB
Affiliated Courses

This course is divided into two parts:  1. In the first part of the course, we will discuss a…


Physics of Weather

EAS 2750
Affiliated Courses

Understanding the weather – day to day forecasting, seasonal changes, the power of storms, the…