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Courses at the University of Ottawa that focus on sustainability.

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Sustainability related and focused courses

The definition of sustainability used to identify courses on campus was created to suit our Sustainable Tracking and Rating System rankings (STARS). To qualify as a sustainability focused or sustainability related course, the posted course description must include at least two of the three main pillars of sustainability (social, economic, and environmental). Please consult the University of Ottawa's most recent STARS report for more information. 

Administration

  •  Introduction to Business Management
  •  Social Context of Business
  •  Introduction to Business Management 
  •  Social Context of Business
  •  The Entrepreneurial Society
  •  Management Information Systems
  •  The Global Context of Business: Merchants, Traders, Capitalists and Profit Seekers
  •  International Business
  •  Cross-Cultural Management
  •  Staffing Organizations
  •  Industrial Relations
  •  Compensation Administration
  •  Emerging Topics in Management Information Systems
  •  Systems Analysis, Development, and Performance
  •  Leadership, Strategy and Sustainability
  •  Multinational Business Policy
  •  Strategic Management in Developing and Emerging Economies

Anthropology

  •  Social and Cultural Anthropology
  •  Techniques, Cultures and Environments
  •  Anthropology for the 21st Century
  •  Anthropology of Cities
  •  Environmental Anthropology
  •  Capitalism and Ethnographies of Globalization
  •  Food and Food Systems

Human Kinetics

  •  Physical Activity in a Global Health Perspective
  •  Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity in Canada 
  •  History of Sport and Physical Activity in Canada 
  •  Sociology of Health and Physical Activity in Canada
  •  Political Economy of Sport and Physical Activity
  •  International Sport Management Perspectives

Visual Arts

  •  World Art Histories

Biology

  •  Conservation Biology
  •  Ecosystem Ecology

Biopharmaceutical Science

  •  Pharmaceuticals: Federal and International Regulations
  •  Human Toxicology and Environmental Health

Chemical Engineering

  •  Chemical Engineering Practice
  •  Plant Design Project
  •  Plant Design Project
  •  Clean Processes and Sustainable Development

Chemistry

  •  Chemistry and the Human Environment 
  •  Environmental Chemistry
  •  Chemistry of Sustainable Energy

Film Studies

  •  Cinema, Nation and Identity

Department of Common Law

  •  Torts
  •  First-Year Thematic Course: Public International Law
  •  Torts
  •  Indigenous Peoples and the Law
  •  Advanced Problems in Canadian Federalism
  •  Commercial Law
  •  Public International Law
  •  Willms and Shier Environmental Law Moot
  •  International Law and Developing Countries
  •  Toxic Tort Law
  •  International Environmental Law
  •  The Law of the Sea
  •  Eco-Justice Environmental Law Clinic
  •  Water Law
  •  Electronic Commerce Law Practice Workshop
  •  Environmental Law
  •  Women and the Law
  •  International Trade an Investment Law Practicum
  •  Employment Law
  •  Advanced Employment Law
  •  Transnational Corporations, Human Rights and International Economic Law
  •  Natural Resources Law
  •  Advanced International Economic Law
  •  Globalization and Law
  •  International Commercial Arbitration

Communications

  •  Digital Social Research
  •  Social Uses of New Media
  •  Political Economy of the Media

Criminology

  •  Environmental and Ecological Justice

Civil Engineering

  •  Civil Engineering Graphics and Seminars
  •  Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
  •  Solid Waste Management
  •  Highway and Transportation Engineering

Law (certificate)

  •  Legal Theory and Social Sciences 
  •  Gestion du territoire et des ressources naturelles (in French only)
  •  Environmental Law
  •  Protection of Civilians in International Law
  •  Environment and Human Rights

Civil Law

  •  Matrimonial Property
  •  Obligations I
  •  Transactions commerciales internationales (in French only)
  •  Traités internationales d'intégration économique (in French only)
  •  Droit international économique : Les organisations internationales  spécialisées (in French only)
  •  Droit international et développement (in French only)
  •  Droit international de l'environnement (in French only)
  •  Droit des assurances (in French only)
  •  Droit de l'aménagement du territoire (in French only)
  •  Droit des ressources naturelles (in French only)
  •  Droit de l'entreprise II (in French only)
  •  Droit de la faillite et de l'insolvabilité (in French only)
  •  Droit de l'entreprise III (in French only)
  •  Planification fiscale et successorale (in French only)
  •  Régime fiscal de l'entreprise (in French only)
  •  Droit du commerce électronique (in French only)
  •  Droit de l'environnement (in French only)
  •  Droit et pauvreté (in French only)
  •  Thèmes choisis de droit de l'environnement (in French only)

International Development and Globalization

  •  Introduction to International Development Practices: Challenges and Innovations
  •  Education, Health and Social Protection
  •  Environmental Policies, Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Development
  •  Ethics and International Development
  •  Food Security and International Development
  •  International Development Issues in Africa
  •  International Development Issues in Asia
  •  International Development Issues in Latin America
  •  Social Economy and Local Development in Developing Countries
  •  International Development Policy and Practice
  •  Advanced Data Analysis for International Development
  •  International Development and Environmental Change

Indigenous Studies

  •  Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies I 
  •  Selected Topics in Aboriginal Studies II
  •  Contemporary Indigenous Political Thought
  •  Selected Topics in Indigenous Studies III

Economics

  •  Introduction to Macroeconomics
  •  Economic Issues of Indigenous Peoples
  •  Introduction to Microeconomics
  •  Contemporary Microeconomic Issues 
  •  Microeconomic Analysis of the Public Sector
  •  Economics of Women's Issues
  •  Introduction to Labour and Population Economics
  •  Introduction to Development Economics
  •  Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resources Economics
  •  Introduction to Health Economics
  •  Macroeconomic Theory II
  •  Microeconomic Theory II 
  •  Analysis of Economic and Social Data
  •  International Trade
  •  Economic Growth
  •  Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics
  •  Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Public Projects
  •  Labour Economics
  •  Development Economics
  •  Public Economics
  •  Research Seminar in Economics of the Environment
  •  Health Economics
  •  Research Seminar in Economics of Natural Resources and Sustainability
  •  Economics of Conflicts

Electrical Engineering

  •  Professional Practice in Information Technology and Engineering
  •  Sustainable Electrical Power Systems

Environmental Studies

  •  Global Environmental Challenges
  •  History of Environmental Thought
  •  Legal Context of Environmental Issues
  •  Natural Resource and Environmental Management
  •  Human and Policy Dimensions of Environmental Change
  •  Environmental Impact Assessment
  •  Environmental Studies Field Research
  •  Environmental Volunteer Work

Environmental Sciences

  •  Introduction to Environmental Science
  •  Environmental Issues
  •  The Practice of Environmental Science

Gender Studies

  •  Gender and Globalization in a Transnational World
  •  Class, Work, Gender and (Re)Production
  •  Feminism and Transnationalism

Geography

  •  Places and Spaces of Human Activity
  •  Contested Places
  •  Sustainable Cities
  •  Cities and Social Change
  •  Geography of Polar Regions
  •  Natural Resource Management
  •  Health Geography
  •  Geographies of Globalization
  •  Social Landscapes of Métis Communities
  •  Geography of Urban Transportation
  •  Espace social (in French only)
  •  Villes du monde (in French only)
  •  Northern Field Research
  •  Permafrost Environments
  •  Geographies of Transnational Migration and Settlement
  •  Seminar in Human Geography
  •  Places and Landscapes of the North American City
  •  Livable Cities, Healthy Communities
  •  Political Geography
  •  Le développement des villes (in French only)

Geology

  •  Environmental Geology
  •  Quaternary Geology and Climate Change

General Engineering

  •  Engineering Design
  •  Introduction to Product Development and Management for Engineers and Computer Scientists
  •  Technology Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Computer Scientists
  •  Engineering Law

Aging Studies

  •  Introduction to Aging
  •  Cognitive Aging and Dementia

History

  •  What Is Europe? (16th-21th Century)
  •  Imperial Russia From 1613 to the 1917 Revolution
  •  History of the USSR
  •  Technology, Society and Environment Since 1800
  •  The United States from 1945 to the Present
  •  History of the Middle East from World War I
  •  Latin America, Colonial Period
  •  Women in Canada
  •  Gender and Sexuality in Historical Perspective
  •  Global Environmental History
  •  British North America, 1763-1867
  •  Canada, 1867-1939
  •  Contemporary Canada
  •  Quebec in the 19th Century
  •  Quebec in the 20th Century
  •  Conflict and Convergence: Canada and the United States since 1776
  •  Canadian Environmental History
  •  Building Europe, 1945 to the Present

Health Sciences

  •  Determinants of Health
  •  Sociopolitical and Economic Perspectives in Health
  •  Global Citizenship and Health
  •  Environment and Health
  •  Methods of Health Technology Assessment

Leisure Studies

  •  Recreation and Environmental Quality
  •  Tourism
  •  Parks and Protected Areas

Mechanical Engineering

  •  Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

Nutrition Sciences

  •  Management of Food Services and Enterprises I
  •  Management of Food Service and Enterprises II
  •  Food Service Operations Management

Philosophy

  •  Environmental Ethics

Education

  •  Social Justice and Global Education

Political Science

  •  Migration, Mobility, Borders and Citizenship
  •  Comparative Politics of Development
  •  Gender Studies and Feminist Theories in International Relations
  •  The Politics of Security 
  •  Urban Politics in Canada
  •  Women and Politics
  •  Comparative Provincial Politics
  •  Ecopolitics
  •  Politics, Social Movements and Globalization 
  •  International Organizations and Global Governance
  •  Contemporary Geopolitics
  •  Comparative Politics: Identity Issues
  •  German Political Thought
  •  Democratization and Authoritarianism
  •  Global Environmental Politics
  •  Advanced Topics in Critical Security and War Studies
  •  Advanced Topics in International Political Economy and or Global Governance

General Sciences

  •  Science in Society

Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation

  • Introduction to sustainability

Software Engineering

  •  Professional Software Engineering Practice 

Sociology

  •  Sociology of Food and Eating
  •  Techniques, Cultures and Environments 
  •  Globalization: Sociological and Anthropological Aspects
  •  Canadian Society
  •  Environmental Sociology
  •  Sociological Perspectives on Determinants of Health 
  •  Sociology of the United States
  •  Comparative Approaches in Sociology
  •  Sociology of Work and Organizations
  •  Sociology of Social Networks
  •  Seminar in Applied Ethics
  •  Local and Global Economic Relations
  •  Globalization and the Environment
  •  Gender Relations, Development and Globalization

Religious Studies

  •  Religion, Nature and Ecology
  •  Sociology of Religion
  •  Religion and Multiculturalism in Canada
     

Social Sciences of Health

  •  A Social Analysis of the Institutions and Governance of Health

Social Work

  •  Identités trans et non binaires, sexualités marginalisées et service social (in French only)