Sustainable Environmental Design Major (SED) Pre-Approved Upper-Division Electives
Students should develop their own clusters of elective courses for the SED major totaling at least 20 units, and are encouraged to meet with staff or faculty advisors for advice. The following courses are pre-approved; to get approval for others see the SED Lead Faculty Advisor.
Society, Culture, and Sustainability
Ecological Systems and Restoration
Society, Culture, and Sustainability
AMS 139: Feminist Cultural Studies
AMS 151: American Landscapes & Places
AMS 153: The Individual & Community in America
AMS 156: Race, Culture, & Society in the United States
ANT 100: Theory in Social-Cultural Anthropology
ANT 101: Ecology, Nature, and Society
ANT 103: Indigenous Peoples & Natural Resource Conservation
ANT 104N: Culture Politics of the Environment
ANT 126B: Women & Development
ANT 127: Urban Anthropology
ANT 128A: Kinship & Social Organization
ANT 130A: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
ANT 131: Ecology and Politics
ANT 144: Contemporary Societies & Cultures of Latin America
ANT 145: Performance, Embodiment, & Space in South Asia
ASA 100: Asian American Communities
ASA 114: Asian Diasporas
CHI 125S: Latino Families in the Age of Globalization: Migration & Transculturation
CHI 130: United States-Mexican Border Relations
CHI 131: Chicanas in Politics and Public Policy
CHI 135S: Transnational Latina/o Political Economy
CHI 141: Community-Based Participatory Research & Chicana/o & Latina/o Health
CHI 147S: Indigenous Healing & Biodiversity in Latin America
CHI 148: Decolonizing Spirit
ECN 115A: Economic Development
ECN 133Y: Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy (offered irregularly)
ECN 145: Transportation Economics
EDU 122: Children, Learning, & Material Culture
EDU 142: Introduction to Environmental Education
GSW 129: Feminist Cultural Studies
GSW 148: Science, Gender, & Social Justice
HDE 104: Children in Families, Schools, & Communities
HDE 110: Families in Communities
HDE 131: Thriving Across the Lifespan
HDE 134: Disparities & Inequalities in Health & Wellbeing
HDE 137: Contextual Determinants of Health
HIS 108: Global Environmental History
HIS 109: Environmental Change, Disease, & Public Health
HIS 110A: Colonialism & the Making of the Modern World
HIS 115E: Slavery, Africa, & the Atlantic World
HIS 170A: Colonial America
HIS 171A: Slavery, Society, & Expansion in the Early US
HIS 173: Becoming an American: Immigration & American Culture
HIS 177A/B: History of Black People & American Race Relations
HIS 178: Water in the West: Environment & Politics in America's Arid Lands
HIS 179: Asian American History
HIS 189: California History
NAS 101: Contemporary Native American Art
NAS 115: Native Americans in the Contemporary World
NAS 122: Native American Community Development
NAS 123: Native Foods & Farming of the Americas
NAS 134: Race, Culture, & Nation
NAS 161: California Indian Environmental Policy I
NAS 162: California Indian Environmental Policy II
NAS 165: Keepers of the Flame: Native American Cultural Burning & Land Stewardship in California
PHI 120: Environmental Ethics (offered irregularly)
SOC 100: Origins of Modern Sociological Thought
SOC 125: Sociology of Culture
SOC 126: Social Interaction
SOC 143A: Urban Society
SOC 143B: Sociology of City Life (offered irregularly)
SOC 144: Agriculture & Society
SOC 160: Sociology of the Environment
SOC 162: Society, Culture, & Health
SOC 163: Population Health: Social Determinants & Disparities in Health
SOC 172: Intersections of Race, Gender, & Class
SOC 185/Y: Social Policy
Ecological Systems and Restoration
ENH 100: Urban Forestry
ENH 102: Physiological Principles in Environmental Horticulture
ENH 105: Taxonomy & Ecology of Environmental Plant Families
ENH 120: Management of Container Media
ENH 133: Woody Plants in the Landscape: Growth, Ecology and Management
ENH 150: Genetics & Plan Conservation: The Biodiversity Crisis
ENH 160: Restoration Ecology
ENH 160L: Restoration Ecology Laboratory
ESM 100: Principles of Hydrologic Science
ESM 108: Environmental Monitoring
ESM 110: Irrigation Systems & Water Management
ESM 120: Global Environment
ESM 121: Water Science and Management
ESM 125: River Conservation
ESM 131: Air as a Resource
ESM 141: Role of Fire in Natural Ecosystems
ESM 144: Trees and Forests
ESM 185: Aerial Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing
ESM 186: Environmental Remote Sensing
ESP 101: Ecology, Nature, & Society
ESP 104: Community Ecology
ESP 127: Plant Conservation Biology
ESP 160: The Policy Process
ESP 161: Environmental Law
ESP 162: Environmental Policy
ESP 163 /ECI 163: Energy and Environmental Aspects of Transportation
ESP 165: Climate Policy
ESP 167: Energy Policy
ESP 169: Water Policy and Politics
EVE 117: Plant Ecology
EVE 119: Population Biology of Invasive Plants & Weeds
EVE 138: Ecology of Tropical latitudes
EVE 147: Biogeography
EVE 149: Evolution of Ecological Systems
GEL 115: Earth Science, History, and People (offered irregularly)
GEL 130: Non-Renewable Natural Resources (offered irregularly)
GEL 134: Environmental Geology and Land Use Planning
GEL 136: Ecogeomorphology of Rivers and Streams
GEL 144: Historical Ecology
HYD 110: Irrigation Systems & Water Management
HYD 124: Plant-Water-Soil Relationships
HYD 150: Water Law
HYD 182: Environmental Analysis using GIS
LDA 130: Plants in the City
LDA 150: Geographic Information Systems for Land Planners
LDA 152: Conservation Planning
LDA 172: Architectural Design
LDA: Other upper-division LDA classes on a space-available basis.
PLS 101: Agriculture & the Environment
PLS 102: California Floristics
PLS 105: Concepts in Pest Management
PLS 110: Crop Management Systems for Vegetable Production
PLS 111: Principles of Agronomic Crop Production Systems
PLS 112: Forage Crop Production
PLS 130: Rangelands: Ecology, Conservation and Restoration
PLS 141: Ethnobotany
PLS 144: Trees & Forests
PLS 147: California Plant Communities
PLS 147L: California Plant Communities Field Study (Must be taken during same quarter or after PLS 147)
PLS 150: Sustainability and Agroecosystem Management
PLS/IAD 160: Agroforestry: Global and Local Perspectives
PLS 162: Urban Ecology
PLS 163: Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology
PLS 171: Principles & Practices of Plant Propagation
PLS 176: Introduction to Weed Science
PLS 190: Seminar on Alternatives in Agriculture
PLS 193: Garden & Farm-Based Experiential Education Methods
SSC 100: Principles of Soil Science
SSC 105: Field Studies in California Ecosystems
SSC 109: Sustainable Nutrient Management
SSC 112: Soil Ecology
SSC 118: Soils in Land Use and the Environment
WFC 100: Field Methods in Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation
WFC 101/L: Field Research in Wildlife Ecology
WFC 125: Tropical Ecology & Conservation
WFC 126: Conservation in Working Landscapes
WFC 150: Urban Wildlife Ecology (no longer offered)
WFC 151: Wildlife Ecology
WFC 152: Ecology of Human—Wildlife Conflicts
WFC 154: Conservation Biology
WFC 155: Habitat Conservation and Restoration Laboratory
WFC 155L: Habitat Conservation and Restoration Laboratory
WFC 156: Plant Geography
WFC 157: Coastal Ecosystems
WFC 168: Climate Change Ecology
ART 101A-E: Intermediate Painting series
ART 103AN-C: Intermediate Drawing series
ART 110A-C: Intermediate Photography series
ART 114A-C: Intermediate Video series
ART 125A-E: Intermediate Printmaking series
ART 142A-D: Intermediate Ceramic Sculpture
ART 149: Introduction to Critical Theory
ART 151: Intermediate Sculpture
ART 152E: Site Specific Public Sculpture
AHI 120A: Art, Architecture, and Human Rights
AHI 121: Politics of Public Art
AHI 122: Sex & Space
AHI 130: Landscape, Nature, and Art (offered irregularly)
AHI 154: The Hindu Temple
AHI 155: The Islamic City
AHI 168: Great Cities (offered irregularly)
AHI 172A: Early Greek Art & Architecture
AHI 172B: Later Greek Art & Architecture
AHI 173: Roman Art & Architecture
AHI 178B: Early Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture
AHI 178C: High and Late Italian Renaissance Art & Architecture
AHI 181: Latin American Art & Architecture
AHI 184: Twentieth Century Architecture (offered irregularly)
AHI 187: Contemporary Architecture
AHI 188A: The American Home
AHI 188B: Architecture of the United States
CDM 103: Interactivity & Animation
CDM 111: Community Media Production
CDM 113: Community Networks & Social Media
CDM 130: Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
CDM 158: Technology & the Modern American Body
CTS 116: Design on Screen
CTS 162: Surveillance Technologies & Social Media
DES 126: Design Ethnography
DES 127A: Sustainable Design
DES 127B: Studio Practice in Sustainable Design
DES 128A/B: Biodesign Theory & Practice
DES 134A/B: Introduction to Interior Design
DES 135A/B: Furniture Design
DES 136A: Lighting Technology & Design
DES 138: Materials & Methods in Interior Design
DES 141: Cultural Studies of Fashion
DES 144: History of Interior Architecture
DES 145: History of Visual Communication
DES 146: Mobilities
DES 149: Information Design
DES 150: Computer Assisted Presentations for Interior Architecture
DES 156: Graphitecture - Architecture in the Age of New Media
DES 166: Human Centered Design
DES 185: Exhibition Design
DES 186: Environmental Graphic Design
DES 187: Narrative Environments
ECI 100: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics for Civil & Environmental Engineering
ECI 123: Urban Systems and Sustainability
ECI 130: Structural Analysis
ECI 136: Building Design
ECI 137: Construction Principles & Project Management
ECI 161: Transportation System Operations
ECI 163: Energy and Environmental Aspects of Transportation
ECI 164: Introduction to Electric Vehicles
ECI 165: Transportation Policy
MSA 111A: Great Cities of Arab Middle Eats & South Asia
CRD 118: Technology and Society
CRD 140: Dynamics of Regional Development
CRD 141: Organization of Economic Space
CRD 142: Rural Change in the Industrialized World
CRD 147: Community Youth Development
CRD 149: Community Development Perspectives on Environmental Justice
CRD 150: Quantitative Methods in Community Research
CRD 151: Community Field Research: Theory and Analysis
CRD 152: Community Development
CRD 156: Community Economic Development
CRD 157: Politics and Community Development
CRD 158: Small Community Governance
CRD 164: Theories of Organizations and Their Role in Community Change
CRD 171: Housing and Social Policy
CRD 172: Social Inequality
CRD 180: Transnational Community Development
ESP 171: Urban & Regional Planning
ESP 172: Public Lands Management
ESP 173: Land Use & Growth Controls
ESP 174: Environmental Justice Policy & Practice
ESP 179: Environmental Impact Assessment
ESP 179L: Environmental Impact Reporting Using GIS
HMR 120A: Art, Architecture, & Human Rights
HMR 132: Human Rights & the Refugee
HMR 135: Human Rights Tools for Advocacy & Practice
HMR 138: Human Rights, Gender, & Sexuality
HMR 162: Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples
POL 100: Local Government and Politics
POL 102: Urban Public Policy
POL 104: California State Government & Politics
POL 105: The Legislative Process
POL 107: Environmental Politics and Administration
POL 108: Policy Making in the Public Sector
POL 109: Public Policy and the Governmental Process
POL 123: The Politics of Interdependence
POL 124: The Politics of Global Inequality
POL 140E: Policy-Making Processes
POL 140F: Experiments in Social Change
POL 142A: Comparative Development: Political Development in Modernizing Societies
POL 142B: Comparative Development: Politics and Inequality
POL 152: The Constitutional Politics of the Equality
POL 171: The Politics of Energy
POL 172: American Political Development
POL 175: Science, Technology, & Policy
POL 176: Racial Politics
SPH 101: Introduction to Public Health
SPH 113: Health Disparities in the U.S.
SPH 122: Data Organization & Visualization in Health Informatics
Note: Upper division undergraduates may take graduate courses with permission of the instructor that will count toward upper division electives.