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Dibs Fall 2026

GEOG 8

Geographies of Sustainability and Unsustainability

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Exploration from a geographical perspective of how sustainability can be understood. Consideration of why the organization of different kinds of landscapes encourages, fosters, enables, and stymies building of sustainable relationships among people, land, waterways, flora, and fauna. While readings and discussions reference scientific studies, focus is on exploring social, historical, cultural, and political-economic dimensions of environmental problems and solutions. Examination of cultural ideas about human environment interaction and questions of power, politics, history, and inequality asking how they contribute to the problems that scientists measure and discuss. Selective focus on those issues of sustainability and unsustainability that are most central to everyday lives in Los Angeles, including questions of food, water, waste, and urban sustainability more generally. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.61
n = 109 · 2 terms · ± 0.050
A range
73%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
8%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
1.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
75 of 77
97% full
 fills TR 9:30am-10:45am Faier, L.B.
3.62n=109 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 4024S
  • 8125S
Enrolment by term: 24S 40, 25S 81
Peak 81 Most recent 81 in 25S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 4 · 3.3%
  • A 51 · 42.1%
  • A- 25 · 20.7%
  • B+ 12 · 9.9%
  • B 11 · 9.1%
  • B- 2 · 1.7%
  • C 1 · 0.8%
  • C- 1 · 0.8%
  • F 2 · 1.7%
  • P 10 · 8.3%
  • I 2 · 1.7%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
FAIER, LIEBA BERNICE 3.62 3.62 109 2 73%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term