LMU United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Courses

Note: This is a sample list and is not meant to be comprehensive. If you know of a course to add, please email us at global-local@lmu.edu. Thank you. 

UN SDG Goal LMU Course

UN SDG - No poverty block

  • SOCL 3270 Poverty and Place
  • ECON 3750 Global Poverty
  • THST 3261 Voluntary and Involuntary Poverty
  • MBAF 648: International Finance
  • MRKT 4523: Historical Survey of Business and Capitalism in Society

UN SDG -  Zero Hunger Block

  • POLS 5515 Food Politics Seminar
  • HHSC 335 Global Nutrition

 

SDG - 3 block

 

 
  • ENVS 589 Sustainability, Health and Equity
  • ENVS 683 Environmental Toxicology and Health Risk
  • MECH 545 Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering
  • ENVS 688 Environmental Health
  • HSEG 665 Population Health and Big Data Analytics
  • HSEG 655 Medical Devices and Integrated Systems
  • SOCL 3152 Women's Bodies, Health, and Sexuality
  • SOCL 3250 Health and Social Justice
  • HHSC 344 Global and Community Health
  • CMST 3325 Communication and Healthcare
  • MRKT 4523: Historical Survey of Business and Capitalism in Society

 

SDG - 4 red block 
  • POLS 5260 Education Policy
  • ART 450 Arts Education Approaches for Social and Emotional Learning
  • ECON 4180 Economics of Education
  • EDES 408 Early Childhood Education Programs and Curriculum
  • EDES 6441 Universally Designed Curriculum and Instruction and Assistive Technology
  • EDUR 5022 Transformative Pedagogy
  • CMST 3290 Communication Pedagogy
  • DANC 484 Principles of Teaching
  • MATH 593 Seminar for Mathematics Educators
  • EDES 502/5102 Creating and Leading Effective Classroom Environments
  • EDES 504/5104 Individual Assessment to Inform Instruction for Diverse Students  
  • EDES 507/5107 Integrated Teaching Methods for Diverse Populations
  • EDES 6103 Curriculum and Instructional Leadership
  • EDUR 5021 Teaching English Learners
  • EDUR 5024 Critical Issues in Education

 SDG -  5 Color block 

  • MATH 261 Mathematics: Contributions by Women
  • POLS 4330 Gender and Politics
  • SOCL 3210 Gender and Society
  • WGST 1100 Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Society
  • WGST 4000 Feminist Political Theory
  • THEA 247 Diversity in American Drama
  • CMST 3110 Gender Communication
  • CMST 3130 Prosocial Behavior and Communication
  • CMST 3191 Relationships in Context
  • CMST 3192 Global Intimacies
  • CMST 3210 Power and Culture
  • CMST 3320 Sexualities and Organizational Communication
  • CMST 3370 Gender and the Workplace
  • CMST 3420 Rhetoric of Women
  • CMST 3425 Rhetoric and Race
  • CMST 3450 Rhetoric and Social Movements
  • CMST 3455 Public Advocacy and Activism
  • CMST 3460 Gender, Sexuality and the Media
  • CMST 3630 For the Love of the Game
  • CMST 3650 Performance, Culture and Sexualities
  • CMST 3670 Communication Theory and Popular Culture
  • FYS 1000 Representations of Women in Ancient Greece                                        
  • FTVS 2127 Queer TV
    FTVS 3300 Women in Film
  • FTVS 4700 Queer Cinema
    FTVS 1020 Art of Screen Media
 

SDG - 6

  • CMST 3540 Environmental Communication
  • CIVL 400 Fundamentals of Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • CIVL 406 Water Resources Planning and Design
  • CIVL 501 Sustainable Water Quality and Resources
  • CIVL 508 Contaminant Fate, Transport, and Remediation
  • CIVL 515 Industrial Waste Management
  • CIVL 517 Water Treatment Processes
  • CIVL 518 Water Reuse and Desalination
  • CIVL 519 Advanced Integrated Water Treatment Systems
  • CIVL 649 Contaminated Site Remediation
  • CIVL 528 Groundwater Hydrology and Sustainable Management

 SDG - 7

 
  • CIVL 573 Economics of Water and the Environment
  • CIVL 575 Renewable Energy Systems
  • MECH 524 Alternative Energy Systems
  • MECH 277 Systems of Energy Conversions
  • MECH 321 Energy Systems
  • CMST 3540 Environmental Communication
  • CMST 3545 Immersed in Urban Oil

SDG - 8

  • SOCL 3390 Work and Economic Justice
  • ECON 4540 Labor Economics
  • ECON 4740 Economic Development
  • CMST 3330 Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility
  • CIVL 395 Engineering Economics and Decision Theory
  • ENTR 4340: International Entrepreneurship
  • MRKT 4595: Value Creation and Marketing Accountability
  • MBAP 6750: Business in the International Environment I
  • MBAA 6030: Global Economic Structures and Systems
  • ACCT 4150: Accounting Ethics, Professionalism, and the Public Interest

SDG - 9

  • CIVL 574 Sustainable Engineering
  • ENSI 6212 Developments in Sustainable Technology
  • CIVL 538 Construction Management and Sustainability
  • HSEG 605: Systems Engr for Healthcare
  • HSEG 625: Patient Safety & Quality Systms
  • HSEG 635: Adv Lean Mgmt Healthcare
  • CIVL 527/627 Urban Water Systems and Stormwater Management
  • CIVL 529/629 Groundwater Contaminant Transport and Remediation
  • CIVL 530/630 Design of Concrete Structures
  • CIVL 532/632 Structural Steel Design
  • CIVL 549 Hazardous Waste Remediation
  • MGMT 4640: Cross-Cultural Leadership
  • MGMT 3690: Environmental Strategy
  • BCOR 4970: Strategic Management
  • BCOR 1910: Business for Good
  • MGMT 4630: International Management
  • MBAE 651 Ethical Issues in Business
  • CIVL 577/677 Transportation Engineering
  • CMSI 544 Engineering for Autonomy
  • CMSI 630 Artificial Intelligence
  • CMSI 638 Multi-agent Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence
  • CMSI 664 Advanced Cybersecurity Management
  • EECE 5120 Microwave Engineering and Antennas
  • EECE 5141 Embedded Systems
  • EECE 5160 Optical Engineering
  • EECE 5211 Digital Signal Processing
  • EECE 5270 Wireless Networks
  • EECE 6111 Information Theory and Coding
  • EECE 6112 Optimization Techniques in Signal Processing
  • EECE 6150 Machine Learning
  • EECE 6170 Internet of Things
  • ENVS 210 Surveying and Mapping
  • ENVS 513 Solid Waste Engineering
  • HSEG 515 Healthcare Delivery Systems
  • SYEG 679 Startup Entrepreneurship and Managing Engineering Innovation
  • MECH 260 Nanotechnology
  • MECH 261 Biotechnology
  • MECH 262 Information Technology
  • MECH 310 Machine Design
  • MECH 510 Computer-Aided Manufacturing
  • MECH 511 Materials Selection in Design
  • MECH 515 Composites
  • MECH 516 Finite Elements Methods
  • MECH 532 Robotics
  • MECH 537 Rapid Prototyping
  • MECH 544 Propulsion
  • MECH 610 Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
  • SYEG 560 Introduction to Cybersecurity
  • SYEG 562 Secure Software Development
  • SYEG 572 Spacecraft Communications and Radar
  • SYEG 673 New Product Design and Development
  • SYEG 679 Startup Entrepreneurship and Managing Engineering Innovation

 SDG - 10 Gender Equity

 

 

  • ENVS 689 Sustainability, Health, and Equity
  • FTVS 4707: Global Cinematic Blackness                            
  • ANIM 301: Animated Perspectives  
  • POLS 3510 Politics of Development
  • POLS 4510 Slavery, Abolition, and Modern Slavery
  • SOCL 3290 Social Inequalities
  • PSYC 3019 African and Black Psychology
  • CMST 3110 Gender Communication
  • CMST 3130 Prosocial Behavior and Communication
  • CMST 3191 Relationships in Context
  • CMST 3192 Global Intimacies
  • CMST 3210 Power and Culture
  • CMST 3220 Race, Culture and Sport
  • CMST 3320 Sexualities and Organizational Communication
  • CMST 3370 Gender and the Workplace
  • CMST 3420 Rhetoric of Women
  • CMST 3425 Rhetoric and Race
  • CMST 3430 Culture, Crime and Punishment
  • CMST 3450 Rhetoric and Social Movements
  • CMST 3455 Public Advocacy and Activism
  • CMST 3460 Gender, Sexuality and the Media
  • CMST 3470 Primetime Crime
  • CMST 3510 Wires and Empires
  • CMST 3530 Digital Rhetoric
  • CMST 3630 For the Love of the Game
  • CMST 3650 Performance, Culture and Sexualities
  • CMST 3670 Communication Theory and Popular Culture
  • DANC 397.01/.02 Dance in its Cultural Context: Dance of Hawai’i
  • DANC 397.03/.04 Dance in its Cultural Context: Dances of the West African Diaspora
  • FTVS 1020 Art of Screen Media
  • MGMT 2690: Managing Diversity
  • MBAE 637: International Management of Human Resources
  • ENSI 6211: Environmental Law, Policy & Ethics

 SDG - 11

 

  • SOCL 3232 Community
  • URBN 3046 Sustainable Cities
  • URBN 3047 Community Development
  • PSYC 4033 Community Psychology
  • MGMT 4695 Global Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects in East Asia
  • CMST 3540 Environmental Communication
  • FFYS 1000 Bicycle: Art Ecology, Culture
  • ENVS 279: Prin Envrnmntl Sustainability
  • CIVL 538 Construction Management and Sustainability
  • CIVL 574/674 Sustainable Engineering
  • ENVS 356 Sustainable Practices

 SDG - 12

 

  • MRKT 3513: Rethinking the Marketplace
  • MRKT 3512: Customer Insights
  • MRKT 3521 The New World of Branding and Advertising
  • MRKT 4576 Marketing Strategy in the Global Environment
  • PHIL 3115 Ethics for Engineering and Science
  • CIVL 538 Construction Management and Sustainability
  • MRKT 4524 Sustainable Marketing Enterprises
  • CIVL 460 Civil Engineering Design, Practice, and Ethics
  • CIVL 533/633 Design of Wood Structures
  • CIVL 572/672 Sustainable Waste Management
  • CMSI/SYEG 563 Cyberdefense
  • CMSI 662 Secure Software Development
  • CMSI 3920 Human Contexts and Computer Ethics

SDG - 13

 

  • SOCL 3360 Environment and Society
  • ECON 3540 Economics of Green Decision Making
  • ENVS 356 Sustainable Practices
  • ENVS 584 Climate Change and Impacts
  • CMST 3540 Environmental Communication
  • CMST 3545 Immersed in Urban Oil
  • ENVS 357: Enviro Chem: Atmos & Climate
  • ENVS 584/684: Climate Change and Impacts
  • CIVL 571/671 Air Quality, Control, and Management
  • ENVS 275 The Automobile and the Environment
  • ENVS 686 Climate Change Mitigation
  • ENVS 687 Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
  • MBAE 650: Environmental Strategy
  • ENSI 6210: Environmental Problems, Issues & Impacts
SDG - 14
  • BIOL 328 Tropical Marine Ecology
  • ENVS 310 Oceanography
  • BIOL 278 Tropical Marine Ecology
  • ENVS 263 Surfing and the Ocean Realm
  • ENVS 310 Oceanography
  • ENVS 525 Inland Waters

SDG - 15 

  • ENVS 581 Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes
  • ENVS 582 Urban Coasts: Habitats, Stressors, and Resilience
  • BIOL 321 Urban Ecology 

 SDG - 16

 

 
  • PJST 1000 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies
  • POLS 3630 Peace and Reconciliation
  • POLS 3660 Model United Nations
  • POLS 5710 International Affairs and Social Justice
  • POLS 5730 Ethics and Peacebuilding
  • THEA 382 Theatre and Social Change
  • THEA 381 Voices of Justice
  • THEA 383 Comedy for Social Change
  • CMST 3130 Prosocial Behavior and Communication
  • CMST 3430 Culture, Crime and Punishment
  • CMST 3450 Rhetoric of Social Movements
  • CMST 3455 Public Advocacy and Activism
  • DANC 387 Dance as Social Action
  • FYS 1000 Who Owns Art?
  • SYEG 520 Engineering Leadership and Integrity
  • INBA 4830: International Management
  • BLAW 3210: Legal Tools for Business Professionals
  • BCOR 4910: Business Ethics and Sustainability
  • MBAE 601 The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

 SDG - 17

 

  • EDSP 436 Creating Collaborative Partnerships
  • EDUR 6606 Developing Collaborative Partnerships for Inclusive Schooling
  • MGMT 4635 Managing Nonprofit Organizations
  • AFAM 3643 Black Community Engagement
  • ART 405 Building Community with the Arts
  • CMST 3710 Community Based Learning
  • PSYC 4101 Community-Based Service Learning, Integration, and Psychology
  • CMST 3350 Nonprofit Communication Campaigns
  • CMST 3380 Communication Consulting
  • CMST 3455 Public Advocacy and Activism
  • DANC 379 Dance Tour Group
  • CMSI 632 Cognitive Systems
  • SYEG 540 Systems Thinking: Major Tech Changes/Impacts
  • MATH 540 Deep Learning
  • MECH 604 Engineering Mathematics
  • BCOR 3860: International Business
  • MGMT 3600: Managing Others
  • MGMT 4600: Local Global Mindset
  • MBAA 6100: Managing International Business
  • MBAC 647 International Marketing 

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