Global Change and Social Sustainability

Catalog description

Achieving "social sustainability" has become a goal for societies around the world, but what does it mean and how can they achieve it? Sociology provides scientific tools to help answer these questions. In this course, students will learn sociological approaches for investigating and analyzing global social challenges ranging from climate change and food insecurity to drug trafficking and health pandemics and consider applications of these insights to inform on-the-ground efforts to advance social sustainability.