Sustainable Design

University of California, Berkeley

This is an archived copy of the 2014-15 guide. To access the most recent version of the guide, please visit http://guide.berkeley.edu/.

About the Program

Sustainable design implies making decisions at various scales of the built environment (buildings, communities, land use patterns, urban support systems) in ways that support environmental quality, social equity, and economic vitality. The undergraduate minor in sustainable design is jointly offered by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, but also includes interdisciplinary courses across campus. The minor is open to all majors at UC Berkeley.

There is no major program; students interested in pursuing this course of study at the major level should consider the BA in Architecture program .

Declaring the Minor

For your minor to be added to your transcript, you must file the CED Minor Completion form  with the Office of Undergraduate Advising in 250 Wurster Hall during the semester in which you complete your last class for the minor.

Other Minors Offered by the Department of Architecture

For information regarding other minors offered by the Department of Architecture, please see the applicable section in this Bulletin:
Architecture
Environmental Design and Urbanism in Developing Countries
History of the Built Environment
Social and Cultural Factors in Design

General Information

Website: Department of Architecture , Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Department Office: 232 Wurster Hall, 510-642-4942
Department Chair, Architecture: Tom J. Buresh, MArch, buresh@berkeley.edu , 232A Wurster Hall, 510-642-4942
Department Chair, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning: Louise A. Mozingo, MLA; lmozingo@berkeley.edu ; 310 Wurster Hall; 510-643-9804
Undergraduate Major Chair: Lisa Iwamoto, M.Arch; liwamoto@berkeley.edu ; 339 Wurster Hall
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies: Renee Chow, M.Arch, SBAD; rychow@berkeley.edu ; 366 Wurster Hall
Director, Office of Undergraduate Advising: Susan Hagstrom; hagstrom@berkeley.edu ; 250 Wurster Hall; 510-642-0408
Minor Program Faculty Adviser: Joe McBride, PhD; jrm2@berkeley.edu ; 412B Wurster Hall; 510-643-5322
Minor Program Faculty Adviser: Gail Brager, PhD; gbrager@berkeley.edu ; 386 Wurster Hall
Minor Program Staff Adviser: Lauren Worrell, worrell@berkeley.edu ; 250 Wurster Hall
CED Career Services

Minor Requirements

Prerequisites

Select one of the following:3
Engineered Systems and Sustainability
Introduction to Environmental Design
Design and Activism
Global Cities
Future Ecologies: Urban Design, Climate Adaptation, and Thermodynamics
Introduction to Environmental Sciences
Environmental Issues
Global Environmental Change
Environmental Science for Sustainable Development

Required Upper Division Courses

Select five additional courses (minimum of two courses from each list below), all completed with a letter grade of C- or better:

List 1: CED Courses
ARCH 140Energy and Environment4
ARCH 149Special Topics in Energy and Environment 21-4
ARCH 169Special Topics in Construction Materials 21-4
ARCH 240Advanced Study of Energy and Environment3
ARCH 241Research Methods in Building Sciences3
ARCH 242Sustainability Colloquium 11,2
ARCH 243Natural Cooling: Sustainable Design for a Warming Planet3
ARCH 244The Secret Life of Buildings3
ARCH 245Daylighting3
ARCH 249Special Topics in the Physical Environment in Buildings4
CY PLAN 114Introduction to Urban and Regional Transportation3
CY PLAN 119Planning for Sustainability3
CY PLAN 254Sustainable Communities3
CY PLAN 256Course Not Available3
ENV DES 105Deep Green Design4
ENV DES 198Directed Group Study 11-4
ENV DES 198Directed Group Study 11-4
LD ARCH 103Energy, Fantasy, and Form5
LD ARCH 110Ecological Analysis3
LD ARCH 122Environmental Science for Sustainable Development4
LD ARCH 130Sustainable Landscapes and Cities3
LD ARCH 138ACThe Metropolitan Landscape3
1

The ARCH 242 Sustainability Colloquium colloquium and ENV DES 198 Directed Group Study may only count as a third course from this list and may be taken P/NP for either 1 or 2 units.

2

Special Topics courses will be evaluated each semester by student request. Please ask the relevant staff adviser if a course has been reviewed and/or approved.

Lis 2: Non-CED Courses
ANTHRO 137Energy, Culture and Social Organization4
CIV ENG 103Introduction to Hydrology3
CIV ENG 107Climate Change Mitigation3
CIV ENG 113NEcological Engineering for Water Quality Improvement3
CIV ENG 292ATechnologies for Sustainable Societies 11
ENE,RES C100Energy and Society4
ENE,RES 101Ecology and Society3
ENE,RES 102Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems4
ENE,RES 151Course Not Available4
ENE, RES 175Course Not Available4
ESPM 102DClimate and Energy Policy4
ESPM 117Urban Garden Ecosystems4
ESPM 151Society, Environment, and Culture4
ESPM 155Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems4
ESPM 161Environmental Philosophy and Ethics4
ESPM 163Course Not Available (formerly SOCIOL 128AC)4
ESPM 166Natural Resource Policy and Indigenous Peoples4
ESPM C167Environmental Health and Development4
ESPM 168Political Ecology4
ENV SCI 125Environments of the San Francisco Bay Area3
ENVECON C101Environmental Economics4
ENVECON C102Natural Resource Economics4
ENVECON 162Economics of Water Resources3
ENVECON C175The Economics of Climate Change4
GEOG 130Food and the Environment4
PUB POL 182Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspective4
SOCIOL 123Course Not Available4
SOCIOL 128Course Not Available4
1

CIV ENG 292A Technologies for Sustainable Societies may only count as a third course from List 2.

All upper-division courses must be completed with a grade of C- or better

Faculty Advisers

Joe McBride
412B Wurster Hall
jrm2@berkeley.edu

Gail Brager
232 Wurster Hall
gbrager@berkeley.edu

Staff Adviser1

Lauren Worrell
250 Wurster Hall
worrell@berkeley.edu

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