Environmental Analysis and Sustainability Principles

• LA 213 Site and Terrain Analysis
This course is an introduction to inventory and analysis methodologies. Students use case study reviews, mapping and overlay techniques, while studying environmental ethics and an overall understanding of the function and structure of the natural landscape.

• LA 252 Fundamentals of Site Planning and Design
Course covers three dimensional site planning and design principles, spatial design and sequencing with concern for human behavior and social implications, and environmental and natural site factors.

• LA 321 Concepts in Environmental Decision Making
This course investigates the theoretical and attitudinal basis of environmentally concerned disciplines. Students will consider ecology, perception, behavior and design studies as organizational principles and theories in developing understanding of interface between built and natural environments.

• LA 432 Landscape Ecology Applications
Course is meant to assist integration and application of landscape ecology principles in project planning and design studio courses. Focus is on understanding and developing a framework for ecological planning and design and anticipating the consequences of design decisions.

• LA 451 Regional Landscape Assessment
Course teaches regional landscape assessment and design techniques utilizing geographic information system techniques (GIST). Students will address land planning and design issues in regional scale environments.

• LA 551 Regional Landscape Assessment I
Class work covers definition and research covering the biological, cultural and physical resources of a specific region. Concepts of regionalism, land planning, reclamation and preservation are integral to the course.

• LA 552 Regional Landscape Assessment II
Students learn use of data manipulation techniques to model both impacts on natural systems and land development potentials. Course includes using planning strategies to predict outcomes of land use decisions.

• CRP 334 Cities in a Global World
Students are introduced to examining the changes in the social and spatial organization of urban settlements in the twenty-first century. Course offers comparative analysis of the traditional contemporary cities in the Pacific Rim, South America and Eastern Europe.

• CRP 338 Digital Cities
This course explores the changes in urban form and urban experience associated with advances in digital technology with an emphasis on the implications for the design of places and the distribution of economic and social benefit.

Contemporary Sustainability Practices and Implementation Issues

• CRP 375 Technology and the Environment: A Seminar on Contemporary Issues
Provides interdisciplinary exploration of significant local, regional and global environmental issues where technology is a major cause and/or offers a possible solution.

• CRP 404 Environmental Law
Course offers analysis and critique of the laws governing use and protection of natural resources with a focus on the legal institutions entrusted with the public duty of protecting the environment.

• CRP 408 Water Resource Law and Policy
Students will examine the various legal systems regarding water use, regulation and management in California and the United States with a discussion of the state, federal and interstate water quality control. Course will focus on why issues and conflicts occur and how solutions evolve.

• CRP 420 Land Use Law
Course provides instruction on public controls protecting natural environmental systems; land use and environmental controls; and a review of the control mechanisms. Review of state and federal legislation and the legal implications of controls, public planning and policy.

• CRP 435 Transportation Theory
Course covers transportation planning, analysis of city and regional transportation problems including environmental impact assessment. Students learn techniques for assessing transportation systems, gravity models, route selections, land use models and relationship to transportation.

• CRP 438 Pollution Prevention and Control
An interdisciplinary exploration of policy and planning associated with pollution prevention and control. Includes small group activity and focus on institutional, legal, economic, political, social and technology-related aspects of environmental policy.

• CRP 545 Principals of Environmental Planning
Students review policies and techniques used in environmental planning, especially within the land use planning context, applying California Environmental Quality Act and environmental impact assessment methods.

Sustainable Built Form Development

• ARCH 207 Environmental Control Systems 1
Course in theory and application of climate, energy use and comfort as determinants of architectural form. Emphasis on the varied methods of ventilation, cooling, heating and lighting.

• ARCH 472 Housing Design Concepts
This course provides initial preparation for study relating to housing, urban design and new communities. Course addresses design objectives, concepts, and current theories and forms in housing and mixed-use projects.

• ARCH 501 Environmental Control Systems
Class teaches comparative analysis and evaluation of mechanical and electrical building systems in high-rise and special purpose low-rise buildings.

• ARCH 510, 511 Environmental Design Methods 1, 2
Students learn the application of step-by-step procedures towards rational and intuitive judgmental tasks. They explore methods for formulation, idea production, evaluation, and testing applied to planning, design information systems, communication between designer and client, and user participation in design.

• ARCH 513 Natural Architectural Lighting
Coursework in perception and awareness of light; emphasis on the uses of natural light in urban spaces and building forms. Students will become acquainted with the principals of design in lighting fundamentals and techniques.

Multi-Scale Sustainablity

• EDES 408 Implementing Sustainable Principles
Project based course with student collaboration emphasis with the purpose of implementing sustainability principals by developing tools, process or design, for community- based projects. Students work with proposals at various levels of planning, architecture and design of the environment while addressing social, environmental and economic issues.

• EDES 410 Advanced Implementation of Sustainable Principals
Advanced course continuing community-based projects. Ongoing projects address various scales of planning, architecture and environmental design.

• EDES 420 Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse in the Built Environment
Course in historic preservation, restoration and rehabilitation issues in the built environment. Focus is on the process and issues of preserving cultural heritage through preserving environmental artifacts.

• LA 341 History of Landscape Architecture
This class provides an historical investigation of human activity and how has shaped environments. The consequences are examined for the decisions of entire continents and isolated statements in individual gardens. Course emphasis on understanding agrarian regions, urban spaces, and vernacular landscapes of the world.

• CRP 552 Community and Regional Planning Studio I
Course teaches the application of planning theory and methods relating to community and regional projects. Coursework is structured for research, analysis, synthesis and implementation practice. Class will emphasize the interrelationship of the natural and built environment, transportation systems, and social conditions at various planning scales.

• CRP 553 Project Planning Laboratory
Course addresses project-scale planning problems with a focus on arranging structures, circulation systems, utilities and plant material located on natural and urban sites. Emphasis on supporting human activity while minimizing disruption to natural systems. Students look at planning unit developments, waterfronts, hillsides, campuses and commercial centers.

• CRP 554 Community and Regional Planning Studio II
Advanced study of planning theory and methods used in community and regional planning projects. Continuation of study of course work from CRP Planning Studio I.

Sustainable Environments Minor
This minor will educate students within the college in the principles and various aspects of sustainable environmental design with global, regional and local perspectives and concepts. It will provide students with the knowledge and abilities needed to integrate concerns for ecology, social equity and economics within the contest of human and natural resource systems and the built environments.

Required courses Units
EDES 406 Sustainable Environments 4
EDES 408 Implementing Sustainable Principles 4
Electives 16
Students select 16 units from the following courses:
AG 450; ANT 201, 360; ARCH 413, 445, 472, 531; BIO 112, 301, 325; BOT 238; BRAE 348;
CRP 211, 212, 214, 215, 336, 342, 334, 436, 438;
ECON 303; EDES 350, 410, 420; ENGL 380;
FNR 306, FNR/GEOG/LA 318; GEOG 150, 333;
HUM 303, 330; LA 321, 451, 482; PHIL 340;
PHYS 310; POLS 333, 455, 484; PSY 311;
SOC 313