SLS Affiliated Courses span all six Colleges. These courses teach students about "creating sustainable communities" from the perspective of their specific disciplines or course topics. They align with one or more parts of SLS' approach to creating sustainable communities.

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ABCD in Practice - SHORT COURSE

Spring 2023, Spring 2022
CP 4811, CP 8881
Affiliated Courses, Sustainable Cities Minor


ABCD in Practice: Participatory Facilitation (SHORT COURSE)

Spring 2023
CP 4811, CP 8881
Affiliated Courses, Sustainable Cities Minor

This short course reviews the basics of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) - working with…


Addressing the Plastic Pollution Problem

Spring 2017
MSE 3021
Affiliated Courses

The proposed project under MSE 3021 course addresses the problem of plastic pollution at the…


Advanced Russian: Mediating Russian Culture

Spring 2020
RUSS 3002
Affiliated Courses

This is a content oriented language course that investigates current topic under discussion…


African American Rhetorics of Resistance

Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

As an SLS-affiliated course, African American Rhetorics of Resistance will focus specifically on…


Afterlives of Slavery

Spring 2018, Fall 2017
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

Students will analyze contemporary representations of the antebellum past in literature and art…


Air Pollution Control Engineering

Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
CEE 4330
Affiliated Courses

The course is designed to introduce students to fundamental principles needed to address air…


American Environmental History

Fall 2021, Fall 2019
HTS 3005
Affiliated Courses, Sustainable Cities Minor

This course surveys the complex ecological, economic, cultural, social, and political outcomes…


Animals And/As Technology

Fall 2017
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

To what extent do ideas and initiatives surrounding sustainability extend to nonhuman animals?…


Architecture & Ecology

Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
ARCH 4227, ARCH 6227
Affiliated Courses

This seminar brings together diverse individuals from all majors to pursue a more just and…


Architecture Design Studio I

Fall 2017
ARCH 8856 KW
Affiliated Courses

In partnership with The Pride School Atlanta, this course explores advocacy through the design…


Architecture, Sound, Sustainability

Summer 2018
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

This course in multimedia rhetoric is part of the summer iGniTe SLS program in sustainability.…


Art/Work in Atlanta

Spring 2020
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

If you feel like you sometimes see the world differently than your friends, family, and…


Atlanta in the 1960s

Spring 2020
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

This course will utilize the materials collected in the Ivan Allen Digital Archive to explore…


Atlanta's Persistent Memory

Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022
ENGL 1102
Affiliated Courses

How do we, as (part-time, full-time, or temporary) citizens of Atlanta, uncover the diverse…


Atmospheric Chemistry

Spring 2017
EAS 4740, CHEM 4740
Affiliated Courses

It is what you breathe – Air.  This course looks at understanding our atmosphere, its life…


Back to the Future

Summer 2019
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

Sustainability initiatives, from green development to alternative energy projects, aim to…


Back to the Future

Summer 2020
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

The cumulative consequences of the Anthropocene—warming, carbon emission, species loss,…


Bad Collections

Fall 2018
ENGL 1101
Affiliated Courses

Stockpiles of nuclear weapons, a surfeit of trash in landfills, record high accrual of…


Becoming a Big Ideas Leader

Fall 2017
GT 1000
Affiliated Courses

What are the Big Ideas being advanced to promote sustainable communities? Where do you fit in…


Big Data and Public Policy

Spring 2019, Spring 2018
PUBP 8813, ECON 8803
Affiliated Courses

The School of Public Policy is offering a new cross-listed course with the School of Economics…


Biodiversity Dynamics

Spring 2018
BIOL 4813 MGU, BIOL 8813 MGU, EAS 4813 MGU, EAS 8813 MGU
Affiliated Courses

Biodiversity Dynamics will be a project-based course will explore where plants and animals live…


Bioethics

Spring 2020
BIOS 4651
Affiliated Courses

Students will not only learn about the ethical dilemmas in our community, but develop measures…


Biological Principles

Spring 2021, Summer 2020
BIOS 1107
Affiliated Courses

This active learning course is designed to have students work on applied problems, including…


Biorefining

Spring 2019
CHBE 4803-CS, CHBE 8803-CS
Affiliated Courses

Biomass is the only renewable source of organic carbon. Many efforts have been made in recent…