Sustainability Focused Courses
Michigan State offers a variety of classes for those interested in sustainability. Though there are around 400 courses that touch on the environment and sustainability, the courses below were selected by the Office of Sustainability as specifically sustainability focused. This list was last updated April 9, 2012. Courses without a link to their description means they are not being offered for the following academic year.
Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Course
Undergraduate Courses
- ACR 187 Introduction to Sustainability
- ACR 202 Problem Solving in the Community, Agriculture and Environmental Systems
- ACR 204 Energy Issues in Natural Resource Management
- ACR 287 Issues in Sustainability
- ACR 387 Sustainability Practicum
- ACR 472 Selected Topics in Sustainability
- ACR 487 Sustainability Portfolio Capstone
- ABM 405 Corporate Environmental Management
- ATD 431 Global Context for Sustainable Design
- BE 230 Engineering Analysis of Biological Systems
- BE 469 Sustainable Bioenergy Systems
- CE 271 Intro to Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CE 495 Senior Design in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CSS 101 Intro to Crop Science
- CSS 124 Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
- CSS 294 Issues in International Agriculture
- CSS 424 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Integration and Synthesis
- CSS 431 International Agricultural Systems
- EEP 255 Ecological Economics
- EGR 310 Sustainable Systems Analysis
- ENE 280 Principles of Envionrmental Engineering and Science
- ENE 421 Engineering Hydrology
- ENE 480 Environmental Measurements Lab
- ENE 481 Environmental Chemistry:Equilibrium Concepts
- ENE 483 Unit Process in Environmental Engineering
- ENE 485 Landfill Design
- ENE 487 Microbiology for Environmental Science and Engineering
- ENE 489 Air Pollution Science Engineering
- ENT 205 Pests, Society and Environment
- ENT 319 Introducation to Earth Systems Science
- ESA 320 Environmantal Planning and Management
- ESA 343 Community Food and Agricultural Systems
- ESA 450 Smart Grow and Strategic Land Use Decision Making
- FOR 404 Forest Ecology and Lab
- FOR 408 Forest Resource Management
- FW 110 Conservation and Management of Marine Resources
- FW 417 Wetland Ecology and Management
- GBL 395 and GBL395H Law, Public Policy and Business and (Honors)
- GBL 460 International Business Law
- GBL 480 Environmental Law and Sustainability for Business: From Local to Global (I)
- GEO 402 Agricultural Climatology
- GLG 201 The Dynamic Earth
- GLG 412 Glacial Geology and the Record of Climate Change
- HRT 242 Passive Solar Greenhourses for Protected Cultivation
- HRT 413 Sustainable Landscape Practices
- HRT 417 Sustainable Sites and Environmental Landscape Practices
- ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability and Lab
- LB/MC 459 STEPPS Capstone
- LB 492 Senior Seminar: Renewable Energy
- NSC 448 Ecology, Law and Economics
- PRR 302 Environmental Attitudes and Concepts
- RCAH 295 Special Topics: Ethics of Tourism and Sustainable Development (in Costa Rica)
- RCAH 295B Engagement and Relection Course (Costa Rica)
- UP 488 The Sustainable and Climate Resilient City
Graduate Courses
For full details about the courses see the ESPP website
- ACR 824 Sustainable Development: Measuring Socioeconomic Well-Being
- ACR 846/RD 836 Law of Environmental Regulation
- ACR 848/RC 823 Community-based Natural Resource Management in International Development
- ACR 853 The Industrialization of American Agriculture
- ACR 857 Culture and Rurality
- ACR 878 Tourism, Conservation and Development
- ACR 894 Field Practicum in Sustainability Studies
- AEC 829 Economics of Environmental Resources
- AEC 891 Topics in Agricultural Economics
- AEC 923 Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics
- FOR 804 Forest Ecology
- JRN 872 Environment, Science and Health Reporting Topics
- JRN 873 Environment, Science and Health Journalism Seminars
- LAW 566K Climate Change Law and Policy
- LAW 566L Climate Law and Policy
- MBA 806 Social Issues in Management
- MKT 805 Marketing Management
- PDC 901 Integrated Approach to Planning, Design and Construction
- RD 866 Economics of Renewable Resources
- RD 869 Community and Conservation
- SCM 815 Business, the Environment, and Sustainability
- SCM 843 Sustainable Supply Chain Management