Capstone Experience

Catalog description

Working as teams and mentored by an interdisciplinary team of faculty, students use a sustainability science approach (combining interdisciplinary and collaborative methods) to conduct an in-depth assessment of the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of a real-world sustainability problem facing a community. Emphasis on the collection and analysis of information and data on the social ecological system. Advance training on the functionally linked complex of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to solve complex, controversial sustainability problems including: collaborative team work, impactful stakeholder engagement, comprehensive project management, effective and empathic communication, and conflict resolution. Includes one 4-hour lab per week. Prerequisite: ENVR 401.