Courses
To view a full description and details of courses listed, take a look at Laurier's academic calendar.
Arts
Sustainability-Focused Courses
Anthropology
- AN463: Environments, Environmentalisms and Nature/Culture
Environmental Studies
- ES290: Global Resource and Environmental Issues
- ES296: Introduction to Sustainability
- ES/GG356: Development and the Environment
- ES496: Theory and Practice of Sustainability
Geography
- GG290: Global Resources and Environmental Issues
- GG350: Canadian Issues
- GG362: Global Food Systems
- GG389: Climate Change
Global Studies
- GS351: Nature, Culture and Development
- GS441: Ecological Citizenship
Philosophy
- PP224: Philosophy and the Environment
Political Science
- PO316: Environment and Nature Resource Politics in Canada
Psychology
- PS383: Environment, Psychology and Action
Sociology
- SY406: Environmental Sociology
Sustainability-Related Courses
Anthropology
- AN200: Key Concepts in Contemporary Anthropology
- AN229: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
- AN237: Cross-Cultural Studies of Change
- AN343: Culture and Society in Latin America
Archaeology and Classical Studies
- AR246: Environment and Archaeology
- AR102: Introduction to Archaeology
- AR219: Field Archaeology
- AR241: Historical Archaeology
- AR250: Digital Heritage and Archaeology
- AR342: Cultural Heritage Issues in Historical and Industrial Archaeology
- AR343: Heritage Preservation and Structural Recording in Historical and Industrial Archaeology
- AR336: Culture and Resource Management
- AR372: Archaeological Collections Management
- CL101: The Greek World
- CL102: Roman Civilization
- CL/HI226: History of Ancient Rome
Christian Studies and Global Citizenship
- GC343: Christian Studies and Ecojustice
English and Film Studies
- EN107: Literature and Catastrophe
- EN108: Literature and the Environment
- EN220: Reading Culture
- EN250: Literature, Nature, Ecocentrism
- EN280: Indigenous Writers
- EN330: Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms
Environmental Studies
- ES101: Introduction to Environmental Studies
- ES102: Environmental Problems and Approaches
- ES291: Geography of Resource Policy and Administration
- ES293: Social-Ecological Systems Approaches
- ES295: Ecotourism and the Environment
- ES297: Geography of Water Resources-Canada
- ES298: Environmental Thought
- ES391: Wildlife and Rural Land Resources Management
- ES392: Environmental Impact Assessment
- ES397: World Water Environment and Development Issues
- ES398: Parks and Protected Areas
- ES401: Theory and Practice of Ecosystem-Based Management
- ES493: Problems in Land Resources Management
- ES494: Northern Resources & Environments
Geography
- GG102: Intro to Human Geography
- GG231: Risks and Disasters
- GG261: Geography of Energy
- GG391: Wildlife and Rural Land Resources Management
- GG395: The World's Problem Environments
- GG396: Natural Hazards
- GG397: World Water Environment and Development Issues
- GG486: Seminar on Coastal Environments
- GG494: Northern Resources and Environments
Global Studies
- GS212: Theories of Development
- GS232: Peace and Conflict Transformation
- GS361: Disasters and Development
- GS405a: Global Lives of Natural Resources
History
- HI322: Social History of Modern Canada
- HI344: Native Peoples of Eastern Canada
- HI345: Native Peoples of Western Canada
- HI377: Science and Environment in Canadian History
- HI424: Reading Seminar on Nature and Environment in Canadian History
- HI425: Reading Seminar on Science, Culture and Society in Canadian History
- HI474: Nature and Environment in Canadian History
- HI476: Aboriginal North America
North American Studies
- NO240: North America: Business and Society
- NO/GG201: North American Transborder Region
Philosophy
- PP224: Philosophy and the Environment
Political Science
- PO319: African Politics
- PO360: Canadian Mass Politics
- PO433: Issues and Policy-making in Canada
- PO494: Programming in Fragile States
Psychology
- PS374: Applied Social Psychology
Religion and Culture
- RE330: Controversial Religious Issues and Movements
Sociology
- SY414: Social Movements
- SY406: Environmental Sociology
- SY414: Social Movements
Business and Economics
Sustainability-Focused Courses
Business
- BU411: Business Strategy for Sustainability
- BU615: Environmental Management Economics
- BU701: Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable World
Economics
- EC238: Environmental Economics
- EC318: Economics of Natural Resources
Sustainability-Related Courses
Business
- BU111: Introduction to Business Organization
- BU121: Functional Areas of the Organization
- BU398: Organizational Behaviour
- BU455: Transportation and Facilities Management
- BU461r: Social Entrepreneurship
- BU485: Environmental Management for Operations
- BU492j: Marketing and Society
- BU645: Supply Chain Management
- BU650: Ethics and the Conduct of Business
- BU657: Financial Statements
- BU661: International Strategy
- BU699: Design Thinking
- BU732: Strategic Brand Management
Economics
- EC236: Economics and Demography
Education
Sustainability-Related Courses
- EU415: Science and Technology Education 1
- EU433: Outdoor and Environmental Education
- EU434: Global Education
- EU464: Teaching Methods: Social Studies, History and Geography
Graduate
Sustainability-Focused Courses
Business
- BU615: Environmental Management
- BU701: Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable World
Geography and Environmental Studies
- GG639: Food Systems and Sustainability
- GG641: Climate Change: Physical Science Basis
- GG669: Energy and Sustainability
- GG672: Human Ecology of Stressed Environments
- GG674: Climate and Society
- GG676: Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
- GG677: Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
- GG678: Climate Policy, Law and Institutions
- GG679: Climate Change Mitigation
Global Governance
- GV732: Global Environmental Governance
International Policy and Governance
- IP611: The Economics of Environmental and Resource Policy
- IP612: Issues in International Environmental Policy
- IP614: Interdisciplinary Seminar in International Environmental Policy
Society, Culture and the Environment
- SJ631: Special Topics in Social and Environmental Justice
Sociology
- SY616: Global Environmental Problems and Global Change
Sustainability-Related Courses
Biology
- BI603: Biodiversity
Chemistry and Biochemistry
- CH645: Environmental Heterogeneous Catalysis
- CH602: Green Methods in Organic Synthesis
English
- EN629p: Green Romanticism
- EN692r: Canadian Literary Ecologies
Geography and Environmental Studies
- GG601: Environmental Change and Remote Sensing
- GG635: International Development: Theories and Practice
- GG637: Seminar in Cultural and Historical Geography
- GG638: Consequences of Tourism
- GG644: Applied Geomorphology
- GG647: Recent Activities in Wetland Studies
- GG648/BI646: Paleoliminology
- GG651: Hydroecology for Freshwater Ecosystem Management
- GG653: Land Use and the Carbon Cycle
- GG654: Applied Biochemistry
- GG665: Environmental Planning Theory and Practice
- GG666: Ecosystem Approach to Park Planning
- GG668: Environmental Assessment
- GG673: International Perspectives on Resource and Environmental Management
- GG685: Theory of Local Economic Development
Global Governance
- GV720: The History of Global Governance
- GV733: Security Ontology
History
- HI633: Society and Nature in the Victorian Age
International Policy and Governance
- IP613: Special Topics in International Environmental Policy
Social Work
- SK647: Elders' Teaching and Indigenous Identity
- SK610: Social Change and Social Action
Human and Social Sciences
Sustainability-Related Courses
Criminology
- CC306: Global Justice
Health Studies
- HS303: Environment and Health
Interdisciplinary
Sustainability-Focused Courses
- UU101: Perspectives on Sustainability
Sustainability-Related Courses
- UU150: Foundations for Community Engagement and Service
Liberal Arts
Sustainability-Focused Courses
Environment and Society
- EY302: Climate Change and Society
Human Rights and Human Diversity
- HR231: Human Rights and the Environment
Indigenous Studies
- ID301: Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Society, Culture and Environment
- CT210: Environment and Society: Historical Perspectives
- CT215: Environmental Concerns: from the Grand to the Globe
- CT302: Climate Change and Society
- CT312: Sustainability and Global Society
- CT401: Food
- CT415: Practising Sustainability
- CT417: Special Topics in Environment and Sustainability
Sustainability-Related Courses
Environment and Society
- EY101: Environment and Society: A Historical Perspective
- EY301: Environmental Communication
Human Rights and Human Diversity
- HR100: Human Rights and Human Diversity
- HR163: Introduction to International Development
- HR301: Development Theories, Strategies and Issues
- HR328: The United Nations in the 21st Century
- HR329: Global Health and Social Justice
- HR402: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human Rights
Indigenous Studies
- ID201: Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
- ID/CT120: Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Journalism
- JN206:The Margin and the Mainstream
- JN212: Journalism and Social Change
- JN301: Environmental Communication
- JN303: Public Journalism and Social Advocacy
- JN327: Social Documentary
Leadership
- OL340: Leadership, Organizational Culture and Change
- OL322/HR322: Non-Governmental Organizations
- OL370: Power and Governance in Organizations
Society, Culture and Environment
- CT100: Current Issue in Global Context
- CT202: Science and Cultural Issues
- CT208: Science, Truth and Values
- CT250: Themes in Global Capitalism
- CT401: Food
- CT404: Issues in Development and Social Entrepreneurship
- CT450: The City in Contemporary Life
- CT455: Struggles in Capitalism Today
- CT487: The Medicine Garden
Music
Sustainability-Related Courses
- MU310/HI389: Music, Sound and Environment
Science
Sustainability-Focused Courses
Biology
- BI394: The Changing North: Subarctic Ecosystems
Sustainability-Related Courses
Biology
- BI111: Biological Diversity and Evolution
- BI119: Introduction to Functional Biology
- BI256: Life on Earth: Animals
- BI266: Life on Earth: Plants
- BI300: Environmental Toxicology
- BI309: Population Ecology
- BI400: Topics in Environmental Toxicology
- BI405: Community Ecology
- BI458: Vertibrate Biodiversity and Conservation
- BI468: Plant Biodiversity and Conservation
- BI488: Invertibrate Biodiversity and Conservation
- BI603: Biodiversity
Chemistry
- CH110: Fundamentals of Chemistry I
- CH233: Environmental Atmospheric Chemistry
- CH234: Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
- CH445: Environmental Heterogeneous Catalysis
- CH645: Environmental Heterogeneous Catalysis
- CH602: Green Methods in Organic Synthesis
Psychology
- PS270: Social Psychology
- PS374: Applied Social Psychology
- PS383: Psychology, Environment, and Action
Social Work
Sustainability-Related Courses
Social Work
- SK121: Introduction to Social Work: Values, Ethics and Practice