Environmental Sustainability and Community Engagement Credits: 3

Catalog description

We live in extraordinary times of climate and social transition. This Essentials course introduces concepts of environmental sustainability through multiple disciplines and perspectives on rapidly changing environments and resulting impacts on societies and economies. Through critical assignments and a signature civic engagement research project, students explore and reflect on sustainability at individual, local, national and global scales. Students examine environmental challenges and explore sustainable solutions by designing and conducting a community engagement project to experience the aspects, barriers, and actions to achieve possible sustainable solutions and reflect on the impact of their practices and those at a variety of scales.