| SUSTAIN100 | Research Preparation for Undergraduates | For undergraduates planning to conduct research during the summer with faculty in the Doerr School of Sustainability. Readings, oral presentations, proposal development. May be repeated for credit. |
| SUSTAIN101A | Decision Making for Sustainable Energy | All people and societies face challenges and opportunities for living sustainably in our world. We must make many difficult and complex decisions in our lives as individuals, citizens, and leaders. Through participation in this course, students will... |
| SUSTAIN101C | Climate 101 | This course provides an introduction to Earth's climate system, including how climate has changed in the past, how it is changing now, and how it could change in the future. Topics include quantifying signal-to-noise ratio for detecting long-term cha... |
| SUSTAIN103 | Human and Planetary Health | Two of the biggest challenges humanity has to face - promoting human health and halting environmental degradation - are strongly linked. The emerging field of Planetary Health recognizes these inter-linkages and promotes creative, interdisciplinary... |
| SUSTAIN115 | Wrigley Field Program in Hawaii Preparation | Preparatory course for the Wrigley Field Program in Hawaii. This course will introduce students to the faculty and topics that will be covered during the fall program. It will also include logistics content, readings, and an introduction to Hawaiian... |
| SUSTAIN116 | Ecology of the Hawaiian Islands | Terrestrial and marine ecology and conservation biology of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Taught in the field in Hawaii as part of quarter-long sequence of courses including Earth Sciences and Anthropology. Topics include ecological succession, plant-so... |
| SUSTAIN117 | Earth Sciences of the Hawaiian Islands | Progression from volcanic processes through rock weathering and soil-ecosystem development to landscape evolution. The course starts with an investigation of volcanic processes, including the volcano structure, origin of magmas, physical-chemical fa... |
| SUSTAIN118 | Heritage, Environment, and Sovereignty in Hawaii | This course explores the cultural, political economic, and environmental status of contemporary Hawaiians. What sorts of sustainable economic and environmental systems did Hawaiians use in prehistory? How was colonization of the Hawaiian Islands info... |
| SUSTAIN130 | Empirical Environmental Economics | In this class, you will learn how to quantitatively evaluate major environmental policies such as pollution taxes and cap-and-trade systems, subsidies for electric vehicles and renewable energy, and energy efficiency and fuel economy regulations. We... |
| SUSTAIN131 | Imagining Adaptive Societies | The ecological, social, and economic crises of the Anthropocene suggest it is time for us to re-imagine how best to organize our communities, our institutions, and our societies. Despite the clear shortcomings, our society remains stuck in a rut of i... |
| SUSTAIN140 | Environmental Humanities: Finding Our Place on a Changing Planet | The rapid degradation of our planet threatens the health and survival of communities and ecosystems around the world. How did we get here? What cultural, philosophical, and ethical challenges underlie the separation of humanity from nature and precip... |
| SUSTAIN1A | Know Your Planet: Research Frontiers | Discover the challenges that face our planet today and the people working on solving those problems now. Planet Earth is our only home and so it is critical that we understand what is driving global change. In this course, we focus on climate and sus... |
| SUSTAIN1B | Know Your Planet: Earth in the Laboratory | Explore how Earth¿s big questions are answered inside the laboratory. The challenges that face our planet today are large and wide ranging. In this course, you will discover how these questions are studied and tackled inside some of Stanford¿s cuttin... |
| SUSTAIN1C | Know Your Planet: Science in the Field | Science isn't just in labs or on computer screens. From mountains, deserts, and forests to oceans, ice fields, and clouds, Stanford researchers work in a wide variety of locations, studying processes and phenomena where they happen. This course will... |
| SUSTAIN1D | Know Your Planet: Big Earth | Get a taste of how we use big data to solve Earth¿s big problems. Interested in Big Data and how to apply it to global environmental and sustainability challenges? This course provides an introduction to Big Data and its applications in solving globa... |
| SUSTAIN2 | Climate and Society | How and why is the climate changing? How might a changing climate affect human society? And what can we do to alter the course of climate change and adapt to any climatic changes that do occur? This course provides an introduction to the natural scie... |
| SUSTAIN200A | Your Professional Development | Navigating the transition from student to professional is a daunting and often times unpredictable journey. This course is designed to help start the process of career planning and development early on. Beginning with navigating career uncertainty, t... |
| SUSTAIN200B | Your Personal Development | Success in both your professional and personal life requires emotional, financial, and social intelligence. This course is designed to build on those soft skills that will better prepare you to successfully navigate your life. Develop skills in areas... |
| SUSTAIN200P | Your Professional Development Practicum | Developing a strong portfolio of skills and tools takes resources and partners. This practicum enables the freedom to explore and develop a specific component of your professional portfolio with instructor support. You will set a professional develop... |
| SUSTAIN203 | Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences | This course will prepare students to address the participation and inclusion challenges uniquely faced in the geosciences. By bringing awareness to specific tools and tactics which improve learning and working environments, we hope to help others dev... |
| SUSTAIN210 | Justice 40 Policy Lab | The Executive Order for Tackling the Climate Crisis (14008) establishes a procedural policy, Justice 40, that applies principles of recognition and distributive equity to hundreds of federal policies and programs. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)... |
| SUSTAIN222 | Philanthropy for Sustainable Development | This course teaches students how to pursue social change through philanthropy with a focus on sustainable development. Students learn about the approaches, history, and key debates in philanthropy, and apply their knowledge by collaboratively making... |
| SUSTAIN223 | Confronting Emotions in the Climate Sciences | Traditional climate change courses introduce students to a wide array of scientifically and emotionally challenging subjects without acknowledging the significant distress that climate learners often experience from studiously bearing witness to ecol... |
| SUSTAIN226 | Global Social Change, Sustainable Development, and Education | Focuses on the relations between education and sustainable development from a comparative cross-national perspective. The course covers questions and debates around education for sustainable development and the nature of "the global"; global influenc... |
| SUSTAIN231 | Imagining Adaptive Societies | The ecological, social, and economic crises of the Anthropocene suggest it is time for us to re-imagine how best to organize our communities, our institutions, and our societies. Despite the clear shortcomings, our society remains stuck in a rut of i... |
| SUSTAIN237 | Sustainable Human Behavior | We will discuss pioneering research on the three key pillars that make human behaviors sustainable: health, wellbeing, and a sense of responsibility for the world we share. The class is designed to facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and the dev... |
| SUSTAIN242 | Negotiations | This is an introductory course on negotiations. It is partly experiential: in every session students will engage in negotiation exercises. Data from these exercises will be discussed in the following session. This experiential component will be suppo... |
| SUSTAIN305A | Teaching in the field: Basic skills for working with students in the field | This workshop series introduces the basics of teaching, working, and living in the field with students, from first aid to university policies to pedagogy. We will discuss skills and techniques necessary to keep students safe, to maximize their learni... |
| SUSTAIN305B | Teaching in the Field: Field Practical | Participate in the logistics and academic content of a SUSTAIN field trip and serve as primary trip leaders. Discussions prior to, and during, the field trip that cover pedagogic, safety, risk management, and social issues that pertain to teaching f... |
| SUSTAIN321 | Organizations and Sustainability | This course reviews social science research on the role of organizations in environmental sustainability. Modern human activity is known to be dramatically changing the earth's ecosystem with far-reaching consequences: altering the climate, reducing... |
| SUSTAIN328 | Policy Practicum: Integrating Water and Land Use Policy in the West: The Missing Link | The western United States is currently experiencing what may be the longest and most severe "megadrought" in modern U.S. history. Current U.S. drought data shows virtually all of the Southwest in severe, extreme, or extraordinary drought. Reservoir... |
| SUSTAIN329 | Policy Practicum: Smoke | Clients: Various California legislative and executive branch decision makers. Wildfire smoke has emerged as one of the most pressing air pollution and public health threats in the Western United States. Last year, despite decades of progress in redu... |
| SUSTAIN331 | Ethics in the Anthropocene | Today, in the Anthropocene, humankind impacts the environment on a massive scale, with severe outcomes for species, ecosystems, and landscapes. The consequences of this impact raise many ethical questions, with new dilemmas forcing us to consider new... |
| SUSTAIN332 | Climate Tech for Rapid Decarbonization | This course examines alternative pathways for economies around the world to achieve deep decarbonization within a couple of decades. The overall perspective is to analyze the global decarbonization process at the intersection of technological improve... |
| SUSTAIN345 | Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health: Sustainable Societies Lab | Are you interested in innovative ideas and strategies for addressing urgent challenges in human and planetary health and creating sustainable societies? This 7 session lecture series features a selection of noteworthy leaders, innovators, and experts... |
| SUSTAIN348 | Public Policy for Climate Innovation | This course considers the form and content that climate innovation policies should take as well as implementation strategies to help climate tech companies cross the proverbial "valley of death". The course begins with an evaluation of the advantage... |
| SUSTAIN349 | The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability | The purpose of the course is to (a) introduce graduate students to questions and methods in the rapidly evolving fields of climate/sustainable finance; (b) connect researchers from across the globe interested in this topic to stimulate more rigorous,... |
| SUSTAIN350 | The Sustainability of the Human Record | What happens in the year 12,021 when future generations seek to understand the extensive record of human endeavour, experience, and life, today and previously? What will constitute a future Rosetta Stone that makes accessible surviving monuments, tex... |
| SUSTAIN352 | Power in the Anthropocene: Pasts, Presents, Futures | The Anthropocene designates the present geological epoch, in which humans have irreversibly changed planet Earth, with impacts discernible in the atmosphere, biosphere, and more. The term has also become a "charismatic mega-category" in the humanitie... |
| SUSTAIN400 | Directed Research | Independent research for graduate student projects. |
| SUSTAIN401 | Curricular Practical Training | Curricular Practical Training |
| SUSTAIN5 | Geokids: Earth Sciences Education | Service learning through the Geokids program. Eight weeks of supervised teaching to early elementary students about Earth sciences. Hands-on teaching strategies for science standards-based instruction. Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center f... |
| SUSTAIN51N | Ecologies of Communication | What remnants of our culture will future generations discover and decipher and how will they interpret these? How will they access the technologies we have created? How will they understand the environmental changes that current humans have caused? A... |
| SUSTAIN81 | Doerr School of Sustainability Spring Break Field Trip | Spring break field trip to various locations in Eastern California (may include Owens Valley, eastern Sierras, White Mountains, Death Valley). Exact locations will vary by term. Topics may cover natural history, geology, and ecology. Students will... |
| SUSTAIN83 | Nature Journaling | This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of nature journaling. Nature journaling is a practice of observing and recording the natural world, much as one might record their lives in a daily journal. Nature journaling provides a path for... |
| SUSTAIN85 | Virtual California | This course will give students a sense of place about California through virtual environments and guest lectures that show the geography, geology, ecology, and natural history that help make California a place, not just a space on a map. Students wil... |