Local Approaches to Sustainability

3 credits · Undergraduate

The sustainability challenges that we face, both now and in the future, are large, complex, and often require unique and innovative solutions. As such, this locally-based field course offers collaborative learning opportunities to critically investigate and explore multi-faceted approaches to local sustainability issues. Excursions to community partners are combined with on-campus activities. We explore concepts of resiliency, active hope, community, and innovation. Through these concepts, we explore what it means to practice resilience as an individual in the face of sustainability challenges and adversity, applying what we learn from the local case studies to our own practices of resilience and active hope CALENDAR NOTES: Field course including day field trips, lectures, and in-class activities. PREREQUISITES: SUST 2000.06 or SUST 2001.06 EXCLUSIONS: SUST 3951 FORMATS: Other (explain in comments)