Dec 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog

Sustainability Overlay Courses


The following courses have been approved for Sustainability Overlay at the time of publication.

ACCT 442 Corporate Sustainability Accounting Reporting  

ANTH 330 Political Ecology  

BAN 320 Optimization and Simulation for Business Applications  (UD-5) 

BIOL 334 Humans and the Living Planet  (UD-5)

CHEM 106 Chemistry and Society  (5A)

CHEM 305 Chemistry of Spices  (UD-5)

CHEM 306 Green Chemistry and Sustainability  (UD-5)

DANC 334 Healing Our World through Ancestral Performance Practices  (UD-3)

ECON 360 Environmental Economics  

ENGL 342 Environmental Literature  (UD-3)

ENGL 344 Literatures of Environmental Justice  (UD-4) 

EESC 240 Environmental Biology  (5B)

EESC 280 Humans and the Environment in California  (5A)

EESC 420 Global Climate Change 

EESC 455 Sustainable Food Systems  (UD-4)

ENSC 320 The Science of Global Change  (UD-5)

ENSC 330 Weather and the Atmosphere  (UD-5)

ENSC 340 The Oceans  (UD-5)

ENSC 350 Environmental Hydrology   

ENSC 414 Hazardous Waste Management  

ENVT 101 Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century  (LD-4)

ENVT 300 Sustainable Resource Management  (UD-4)

ENVT 307 Social Impact through Sustainable Solar Design  (UD-5)

ENVT 340 Climate Change  (UD-5)

ENVT 447 Energy, Climate and Society  (UD-5) 

ENVT 465 Sustainable Communities and Development  (UD-4)

ES 302 Eating The Landscape  (UD-3)

ES 307 God is Red: American Indian Worldview  (UD-3) 

ES 327 Decolonize Your Diet  (UD-4)

GEOG 300 Sustainable Resource Management  (UD-4)

GEOG 330 Historical Geography of North America  (UD-4)

GEOG 340 Climate Change  (UD-5)

GEOG 350 California  (UD-4)

GEOG 351 United States and Canada  (UD-4)

GEOG 447 Energy, Climate and Society  (UD-5)

EESC 455 Sustainable Food Systems  (UD-4)

GEOG 465 Sustainable Communities and Development  (UD-4)  

GEOL 230 Natural Disasters  (5A)

GEOL 330 Weather and the Atmosphere  (UD-5)

GEOL 340 The Oceans  (UD-5)

GEOL 350 Environmental Hydrology  

GEOL 414 Hazardous Waste Management  

HIST 323 - History of Sustainability  (UD-3)

HIST 334 - Ancient Egyptian Civilization  (UD-3)

HIST 388 - US and California Environmental History  (UD-3, US-3)

HOS 330 Sustainable Global Tourism  (UD-4)

INFO 230 Argumentation and Information Literacy for Sustainability Topics  (1B, Second Composition)

INFO 310W Sustainability and Information Literacy  (UD-4)

KIN 280 - Sustainability in Action: Physical and Recreational Activity  (LD-4)

KIN 481 Sport Sustainability  (UD-5) 

MGMT 370 Business, Government and Society  

MLL 369  (UD-3)

PH 300 Environmental Health  (UD-5) 

PHIL 311 Environmental Ethics  (UD-3)

PHIL 335 Philosophy of Science  (UD-3) 

PHYS 109 Exploring Physics in the Outdoors  (5A)

PHYS 307 Social Impact Through Sustainable Solar Design  (UD-5) 

POSC 356 Climate Change Politics & Policy: Global Governance  (UD-4)

POSC 384 Climate Politics & Policy: The US, CA & the Bay  (UD-4)

POSC 411 - Public Policy and the Environment   

REC 110 Foundations of Sustainability in Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism  

REC 280 - Sustainability in Action: Physical and Recreational Activity  (LD-4) 

REC 340 Sustainable Facilities, Parks and Open Space  

SOC 330 - Environmental Sociology     (UD-4) 

SOC 355 Global Society  

SPAN 415 Climate Justice in Latin American Cultural Productions  (UD-3)