Overview
Description
This course introduces students to transdisciplinary concepts and principles of sustainability applicable across local and global scales. Offering a framework to examine challenges, opportunities, and solutions to unpack the world’s most complex problems. It provides an overview of the environmental, economic, social, cultural and political issues and offers a holistic definition of sustainability including understanding how the past has shaped the present and views towards the future.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- define and articulate the basic principles and core themes of sustainability.
- articulate a historical perceptive of sustainability, with an understanding of how and why societies past and present made and continue to make sustainable/unsustainable choices.
- describe a range of ways to contribute to the field of sustainability.
- identify opportunities to develop and implement new and/or improved sustainable practices at multiple scales from personal to local, regional, national, and global platforms.
- apply a sustainability framework to unpack and help solve complex problems.
- explain sustainability, regeneration, and futurisms relevant to the field.