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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Climate Resilience

Fall 2018
BIOL 8802, EAS 8802
Affiliated Courses

The rapid change in climates across the globe requires us to determine which human and…


Clinical Observation Design Experience

Spring 2021, Spring 2020
BMED 4813
Affiliated Courses, Kendeda Building

Clinical Observation Design Experience provides students with an opportunity to identify and…


Collaborative Design

Fall 2017
Affiliated Courses

Collaborative Design is a course focused on inquiry-based learning in a project-based…


Collaborative Design

Fall 2017
Independent Study
Affiliated Courses

Collaborative Design is a course focused on inquiry-based learning in a project-based…


Comics and Civic Engagement

Spring 2018
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

In this course, students will create research-based comics about a topic related to urban…


Community Historians + Westside Speaks

Spring 2016
LMC6650, LMC4699
Affiliated Courses

This project studio will explore the design of interactive experiences that support capturing…


Comparative Politics

Summer 2020
INTA 3203
Affiliated Courses

This course surveys the main theories of comparative politics and introduces the comparative…


Composing Access

Fall 2018
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

Who has access to the university? In this course, you will consider how institutes of higher…


Composing Empire and Revolution

Fall 2018
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

In the exuberant Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton musical, the American Revolution is re-imagined as…


Computing for Social Good

CS 4150, CS 6150
Affiliated Courses

Students work in teams on projects that come from external partners. These partner organizations…


Construction Management

Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
BC 6025
Affiliated Courses

BC6025 Construction Management is a required course for all Building Construction master…


Construction Management and Megaprojects

Spring 2017
CEE4803-SLS
Affiliated Courses

Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts of Megaprojects - Tools, such as life cycle…


Construction Management and Megaprojects

Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
CEE 4150
Affiliated Courses

“Restore and improve urban infrastructure” is one of the 14 grand challenges for engineering in…


Crossing Borders

Fall 2022
GRMN 3030
Affiliated Courses, Sustainable Cities Minor

In the class, the students will learn about effects of migration movements on German-speaking…


Crossing Borders

Summer 2020
GRMN 3030
Affiliated Courses

In the class, the students will learn about social issues in Germany such as different schools,…


Culture & Society: Cultural Wars & War Culture

Spring 2021
HTS 3070
Affiliated Courses

This course is an exploration of questions and themes in cultural sociology with a focus on the…


Cultures of Waste: Disease and Environment

Fall 2018
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

This course explores literary and cultural representations of bodily and industrial waste…


Curating Safe Space: LIVE WORK LEARN PLAY GROW

Spring 2018
ARCH 3855, ARCH 4855
Affiliated Courses

In partnership with The Pride School Atlanta, this course explores advocacy through the design…


Data Science for Policy

Fall 2022
PUBP 3042, PUBP 3042 HP
Affiliated Courses, Kendeda Building

This course provides an introduction to public policy analytics. Students will gain hands-on…


Data Science in Conversation

Fall 2020
BIOL 8802 MGU
Affiliated Courses

Conservation approaches have now entered the age of databases, remotely sensed data,…


Design + Research Studio

Spring 2021
ARCH 6072
Affiliated Courses, Kendeda Building

Key to the course is the incorporation of high performance active and passive energy systems…


Design Build Women's Shelter Project

Spring 2017
BC 8803 FW
Affiliated Courses

The School of Building Construction is partnering with CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and …


Design in Public Health

Spring 2017
ID 8900
Affiliated Courses

This course will explore the intersection of design and public/community health. We will be…


Design Methods: User Centered Research

Spring 2017
ID 3320
Affiliated Courses

This course deals with the various methods that designers utilize in fundamentally understanding…


Design. Develop. Build. Africa

Summer 2017
ARCH 4805, ARCH 4823, ARCH 4833
Study Abroad

In 2016/17 students from three universities, Georgia Tech, Have Tech, and PBSA Düsseldorf, are…