Sustainablity Studies (SUS)
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SUS 1001 Introduction to Sustainability: GT-SS3 3 Credits
Introduces the principles of sustainability as a whole-systems approach to pressing socio-ecological challenges, a local to global social movement, and an important personal and public practice. This course explores the historical, philosophical, ethical, and practical pillars of sustainability, and covers a wide range of sustainability topics including systemic understanding of major sustainability issues and identification of avenues for individual and collective action.
SUS 2001 Issues in Sustainability: GT-SS3 3 Credits
Explores in depth one to two major sustainability issues that are both local and global in their scope and draws connections between specific sustainability challenges and the larger causes and effects of the global sustainability crisis. This course examines the selected issues from environmental, social or cultural, and economic perspectives; and presents the framework of social-ecological resilience as a normative guide for applied action.