2022 Sustainability Course Inventory

The list below includes courses that focus on and include sustainability concepts. This course inventory was compiled for Emerson’s reporting to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in 2022 and is based on AASHE’s definition of sustainability. Please note that the inventory was compiled in spring, 2022 and has not been updated. For the most up-to-date course listings at the College, please refer to the course catalogs here.

Course Title Dept UG/G Type
Where We Are: Career & Intercultural Awareness APL UG Sustainability-focused
Introduction to Health Communication CC UG Sustainability-focused

Mental Health, Media and Public Policy

CC UG Sustainability-focused

Civic Engagement

CC UG Sustainability-focused

Public Diplomacy

CC G Sustainability-focused

Disability and the Media

CD UG Sustainability-focused

Introduction to Communication Disorders: Diversity and Difference

CD UG Sustainability-focused

Arts, Health, and Community

CD UG Sustainability-focused

Community Development Exper

CDE UG Sustainability-focused

History of Econ Through Film

EC UG Sustainability-focused

Social Movements in the U.S.

HI UG Sustainability-focused

Culture, the Arts and Social Change

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Women Artists in Cultural Contexts

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Cultural Constructions of Identity

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Power and Privilege

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Post-racial America

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Intro Women's, Gen & Sexuality

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Introduction to Digital Media and Culture

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Women Warriors of Latin American

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Introduction to Global Studies

IN UG Sustainability-focused

The Arab Uprisings

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Global Protests: From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street

IN UG Sustainability-focused

The War on Drugs

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Spec Top in Health & Society

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Global Identity, Local Consumption

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Global Cities

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Visual Ethnography

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Space, Race and Power

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Too Thick to Navigate: the ecology and economics of rivers

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Global Social Movements and Radical Social Thought

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Sex, Society and Health

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Environmental Marketing Communication: Santa Lucia Lodge

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Adv. Topics in Global Studies

IN UG Sustainability-focused

Covering Immigration

JR UG Sustainability-focused

Reporting Issues of Diversity

JR UG Sustainability-focused

Environmental Journalism

JR UG Sustainability-focused

Lit, Culture & the Environment

LI UG Sustainability-focused

Reading & Writ the Environment

LI UG Sustainability-focused

Environmental Ethics

PH UG Sustainability-focused

The Ethics of Eating

PH UG Sustainability-focused

Human Rights

PL UG Sustainability-focused

Collective Action

PL UG Sustainability-focused

Civil Rights

PL UG Sustainability-focused

Food and Nutrition

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Energy and Sustainability

SC UG Sustainability-focused
Meteorology SC UG Sustainability-focused

Earth Science: Natural Disasters

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Climate Change

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Ecology and Conservation

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Plants and People

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Science in Translation: Environmental Science

SC UG Sustainability-focused

Culture and Power

SO UG Sustainability-focused

Race and Ethnicity; The Key Concepts

SO UG Sustainability-focused

Gender in a Global Perspective

SO UG Sustainability-focused

Humor and Society

SO UG Sustainability-focused

Creating Feminist Media

VM UG Sustainability-focused

Writing Place and Distance: Art and Environment in the West of Ireland

WR UG Sustainability-focused

Introduction to the Creative Economy

BC UG

Sustainability-inclusive

Creative Collaboration Seminar

BC UG

Sustainability-inclusive

Develop Aesthetic Sensibility

BC UG

Sustainability-inclusive

Evolution of Comedy II

CA UG Sustainability-inclusive

Interpersonal Communication Skills

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Intercultural Communication

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Communication and Cultural Identity in a Global Perspective: The Netherlands

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Culture, Diversity, and Health Communication

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Public Discourse in U.S.

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Professional Communication

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Nonprofit Fundraising Campaign

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Management and Communication

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Rhetoric of Social Movements

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive
Leadership CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Rosarito Public Diplomacy

CC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Sports, Culture and Society

CC G Sustainability-inclusive

Rosarito Public Dip Workshop

CC G Sustainability-inclusive

Principles of Economics

EC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Cultural Economics

EC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Behavioral Economics

EC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Radical Women in Contemporary History

HI UG Sustainability-inclusive

Literature of Extreme Situations

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Rainbow Nation? Race, Class & Culture in South Africa

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Africana Thought and Practice

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Souls for Sale: The Sales Effort, from Snake Oil to Dividual Selves

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Evolution of Queer Identity

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Post Colonial Cinema

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Gender, Sexuality and The American Music Industry

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Worldwide Underground: Hip Hop as Resistance Around the Globe

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

REEL Race: In and Out of Hollywood

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Latinx Body and Power

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Power and Public Spheres

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Sexual Outcasts and Uncommon Desires

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Queer Dreams: Politics, Culture and Difference

IN UG Sustainability-inclusive

Advanced Multimedia Reporting

JR G Sustainability-inclusive

Black Revolutionary Thought

LI UG Sustainability-inclusive

Latin American Literature and Cinema

LI UG Sustainability-inclusive

Harlem Renaissance

LI UG Sustainability-inclusive

Media Design

MD G Sustainability-inclusive

Ethnographies, Customer Journeys

MK G Sustainability-inclusive

Global Cultures/Applied Anthropology & Sociology

MK G Sustainability-inclusive

History of American Popular Music

MU UG Sustainability-inclusive

Contemporary Ethics

PH UG Sustainability-inclusive

Political Philosophy

PH UG Sustainability-inclusive

International Politics

PL UG Sustainability-inclusive

U.S. Government and Politics

PL UG Sustainability-inclusive

Human Health and Disease

SC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Plagues and Pandemics

SC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Physics of Everyday Life

SC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Madness and Modernity

SO UG Sustainability-inclusive

School of Communication First-Year Seminar

SOC UG Sustainability-inclusive

Multicultural Education

TH UG Sustainability-inclusive

Community Engagement from the Stage

TH G Sustainability-inclusive

Theatre of the Oppressed

TH G Sustainability-inclusive

Introduction to Documentary Production

VM UG Sustainability-inclusive