Environmental Science and Sustainability

Catalog description

Course: Non-technical – General Education for Degree Program This course focuses on the relationship between environmental sustainability, economic development, and government policy. Students will analyze the principles of sustainability through each of these disciplines and then synthesize the relationship of each along with the corresponding challenges each discipline imposes on one another. To synthesize this relationship, students will analyze and evaluate the various components of environmental science, biodiversity, population growth, infrastructure, extinctio n and resources, and U.S. environmental policy.