Global Sustainable Development

3 credits · Undergraduate

This interdisciplinary course will help students to develop a capacity to analyze society-environment relations across spacial scales (from local to the global) using approaches from multiple academic disciplines and professional fields. The course's dual focus on analytical approaches and environmental objects (rather than a typical emphasis on problems) underscores the fact that today's concerned citizens and professionals must be able to analyze complex society-environmental relations from multiple perspectives and at multiple scales. Sustainability demands insights and methods from education, the social sciences, business and organizational studies, the natural sciences, and more. [3]