GC 501 - Seminar in Sustainability

Offered Fall: Yes Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

Credits: 4
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 4-0-0
Graded: A/F

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or senior standing with instructor permission.
Co-requisites: None

This seminar course provides a broad survey of sustainability science, the discipline that explores how interactions between humans and the environment affect our ability to meet the needs of current and future generations. Students will be introduced to the field’s fundamental themes, current developments and debates, and unresolved questions through critical discussion of literature and presentations. They will begin to integrate ideas from disciplines such as Earth System Science, resource economics, geography, and development studies.