Sustainability, B.A.: this term's offerings for each requirement
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.
12 Units of Integrative Core Courses
- SUSTN 332 - Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 332 - Environmental Ethics
- SUSTN 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- ANTH 353 - Sustainability and Culture
- BIOL 315 - Ecology and Human Impacts on the Environment
- GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
- HIST 441 - Unnatural Disasters: History of Current Environmental Problems
- SUSTN 334 - Politics of the Environment
- POL S 334 - Politics of the Environment
18 Units of Field Electives
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Field A, Human-Nature Interface
3 units- ANTH 355 - Exploring Primate Behavior
- ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: The Transformational Partnership of Nature and Nurture
- ANTH 510 - Environmental and Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH 563 - Anthropogenic Landscapes
- ECL 565 - Ecocriticism
- ECON 455 - Environmental Economics
- ECL 305 - Literature and Environment
- ECL 491 - Contemporary Topics in Literature
- GEOG 342 - Food, Place, and Culture
- GEOG 348 - Environment and Development
- GEOG 360 - Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- HIST 441 - Unnatural Disasters: History of Current Environmental Problems
- HIST 584 - Green City
- ISCOR 310 - Our Global Future: Environment, Climate, and the Prospects of Survival
- REL S 376 - Spirituality and Sustainability (D)
- RWS 360 - Rhetoric of Sustainability
- SUSTN 334 - Politics of the Environment
- POL S 334 - Politics of the Environment
- WGSS 580 - Gender and the Global Economy
- WGSS 582 - Feminist Science and Technology Studies
Field B, Applied and Regional Studies
3 units- ANTH 532 - Anthropology of Development and Conservation
- ASIAN 320 - Asian Environmental Issues
- BRAZ 333 - The Amazon is the Center of the World
- ENV E 320 - Designing Solutions for Environmental Problems
- GEOG 341 - Feeding the World
- GEOG 354 - Geography of Cities
- GEOG 426 - Regional Field Studies
- GEOG 440 - Food Justice
- POL S 440 - Food Justice
- GEOG 554 - World Cities: Comparative Approaches to Urbanization
- GEOG 572 - Land Use Analysis
- ISCOR 324 - Politics of Global Resistance and Solidarity
- LATAM 545 - The Latin American City
- OCEAN 320 - Oceans of Change
- POL S 564 - Political Ecology of Latin America
- RTM 305 - Wilderness and the Leisure Experience
- RTM 470 - Global Sustainable Tourism Management
- RTM 477 - Sustainable Tourism Planning
- RTM 487 - Environmental and Cultural Interpretation
- SOC 350 - Population and Contemporary Issues
- WGSS 580 - Gender and the Global Economy
Field C, Scientific and Analytical Thinking
3 units- 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 517 - Marine Ecology
- BIOL 540 - Conservation Ecology
- BIOL 544 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Climate Change
- ENV S 544 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Climate Change
- ECON 455 - Environmental Economics
- ECON 456 - Economics of Natural Resources
- ENV S 301 - Energy and the Environment
- ENV S 302 - Climate Change Solutions
- GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
- GEOG 375 - Environmental Hydrology
- GEOG 401 - Geomorphology
- GEOG 409 - Global Climate Change
- GEOG 440 - Food Justice
- POL S 440 - Food Justice
- GEOG 454 - Sustainable Cities
- GEOG 507 - Geography of Natural Vegetation
- GEOG 512 - World on Fire
- GEOG 554 - World Cities: Comparative Approaches to Urbanization
- GEOG 570 - Environmental Conservation Practice
- GEOG 572 - Land Use Analysis
- GEOG 573 - Population and the Environment
- GEOG 574 - Water Resources
- GEOG 578 - Practical Hydrologic Modeling
- GEOL 305 - Water and the Environment
- P H 304 - Environment and Public Health
- P H 362 - Global Health
Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
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Impacted Program
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International Experience Requirement
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Language Requirement
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Note
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One Course Selected From
- ECON 201 - Statistical Methods
- LING 270 - Elementary Statistics for Language Studies
- PHIL 120 - Introduction to Logic
- POL S 201 - Statistics and Politics
- PSY 280 - Statistical Methods in Psychology
- SOC 201 - Elementary Social Statistics
- STAT 119 - Elementary Statistics for Business
- STAT 250 - Statistical Principles and Practices
Preparation for the Major
15 unitsSustainability, B.A. - Roadmap
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Three Units Selected From
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2026-27 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.