Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
15 Units from One of the Three Specializations
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Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
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Impacted Program
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Language Requirement
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Major
- ISCOR 300 - Global Systems
- ISCOR 301 - Conflict and Conflict Resolution
- ISCOR 310 - Our Global Future: Environment, Climate, and the Prospects of Survival
- ISCOR 495 - Internship in International Security and Conflict Resolution
- ISCOR 497 - Thesis in International Security and Conflict Resolution
- POL S 375 - Global Politics
Note
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Preparation for the Major
15 unitsRequirements for Specialization
- POL S 334 - Politics of the Environment
- SUSTN 334 - Politics of the Environment
- POL S 564 - Political Ecology of Latin America
- POL S 577 - Politics of International Law
- REL S 376 - Spirituality and Sustainability (D)
- SOC 350 - Population and Contemporary Issues
- GEOG 454 - Sustainable Cities
- GEOG 570 - Environmental Conservation Practice
- GEOG 574 - Water Resources
- GEOL 305 - Water and the Environment
- HIST 441 - Unnatural Disasters: History of Current Environmental Problems
- HIST 584 - Green City
- HUM 409 - The Future
- LATAM 350 - Globalization and the Americas
- OCEAN 320 - Oceans of Change
- P H 304 - Environment and Public Health
- P H 362 - Global Health
- P H 452 - Health Impacts of Climate Change
- PHIL 332 - Environmental Ethics
- SUSTN 332 - Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 333 - Ethics-Food
- AMIND 350 - American Indian Environmental Management
- AMIND 440 - American Indian History
- ANTH 350 - Exploring Cultural Diversity Around the World
- ANTH 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- SUSTN 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- ANTH 365 - Pets and Plates: Archaeology of Domestic Animals
- ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: The Transformational Partnership of Nature and Nurture
- ANTH 442 - Cultures of South America
- ANTH 504 - Seminar in Human Adaptability
- ANTH 510 - Environmental and Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 566 - Seminar in Archaeologies of the Borderlands
- ASIAN 320 - Asian Environmental Issues
- BIOL 315 - Ecology and Human Impacts on the Environment
- BIOL 324 - Life in the Sea
- BIOL 327 - Conservation of Wildlife
- BIOL 354 - Ecology and the Environment
- BIOL 540 - Conservation Ecology
- BIOL 542 - Ecological Signaling in the Environment
- BIOL 544 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Climate Change
- BRAZ 333 - The Amazon is the Center of the World
- ECON 455 - Environmental Economics
- ECON 456 - Economics of Natural Resources
- ECL 409 - Science Fiction
- ENV S 301 - Energy and the Environment
- ENV S 302 - Climate Change Solutions
- GEOG 303 - Severe Weather
- GEOG 341 - Feeding the World
- GEOG 342 - Food, Place, and Culture
- GEOG 348 - Environment and Development
- GEOG 360 - Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
- GEOG 375 - Environmental Hydrology
- GEOG 409 - Global Climate Change
- GEOG 440 - Food Justice
- POL S 440 - Food Justice
Six Units Selected From
Specialization in Environment in the Global System
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Study Abroad Requirement
Three Units from Each of the Following Groups
- STAT 119 - Elementary Statistics for Business
- STAT 250 - Statistical Principles and Practices
- POL S 101 - Introduction to American Politics in Global Perspective
- POL S 103 - Introduction to Comparative Politics
- POL S 104 - Introduction to Global Politics
- HIST 100 - World History
- HIST 101 - World History
- ECL 270 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
- REL S 101 - World Religions
- ECON 201 - Statistical Methods
- POL S 201 - Statistics and Politics
- PSY 280 - Statistical Methods in Psychology
- SOC 201 - Elementary Social Statistics
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2025-26 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.