Sustainability Courses

FSU offers over 500 undergraduate and 350 graduate courses that include sustainability!

sustainability courses

Sustainability is about connectivity, specifically between the environment, economic systems, and equity. For a course to be determined a ‘sustainability course’ it must identify and describe the relationship between at least two of the three pillars of sustainability or be focused entirely on sustainability.

Sustainability courses: The focus of the class is sustainability and/or the course discusses two out of the three dimensions of sustainability.

Courses that include sustainability: The focus of the class is on another topic but includes one of the components of sustainability or is focused on social, environmental, or economic issues.

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how are sustainability courses identified?

In gathering data, FSU Institutional Research pulls course information from Campus Solutions, the student information system at FSU.

The following key words are used to identify potential sustainability courses and/or courses that include sustainability, pulling from the online course catalog:

  • Sustainable/ sustainability
  • Green
  • Eco
  • Global
  • Conservation
  • Remediation
  • Systems
  • Design
  • Environment/environmental
  • Water
  • Resource(s)
  • Energy         
  • Ecology
  • Resource/resources
  • Natural
  • Water
  • Contaminant/contamination
  • Coastal
  • Marine
  • Geography
  • Chemistry
  • Hydraulic
  • Social/issues
  • Population
  • Leadership
  • Planning
  • Development
  • Health
  • Collective
  • Community
  • Food
  • Urban
  • Ethics
  • Development
  • Policy
  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Transportation

Staff members from the Sustainable Campus Office examine each output to determine if a class is a sustainability course or a course that includes sustainability.

Sustainability course identification is an iterative process and courses may be updated as FSU develops new digital systems to categorize course content. The sustainability course inventory will continue to change and may not be a complete list of all sustainability courses offered at FSU.