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3.00 Credits
Conditions and hours to be arranged Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, department chairperson, and college dean Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered.
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3.00 Credits
Multi-disciplinary introduction to sustainability/, defined as balancing present human needs and desires against the future’s capacity to support human needs and desires. Mixed faculty from Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, Nursing, and Visual and Performing Arts will explore current and alternative social systems within a single theme, thereby demonstrating the interrelationships between natural and social systems. Topics will change depending on faculty, but will include such interests as food, energy, biodiversity, biotechnology, economic development and environmental stewardship, public health, business and law, representations of culture, technology, and/or nature in literature and art and climate change. Students from all majors are welcome.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture Multi-disciplinary introduction to /sustainability/, defined as balancing present human needs and desires against the future’s capacity to support human needs and desires. Mixed faculty from Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, Nursing, and Visual and Performing Arts will explore current and alternative social systems within a single theme, thereby demonstrating the interrelationships between natural and social systems. Topics will change depending on faculty, but will include such interests as food, energy, biodiversity, biotechnology, economic development and environmental stewardship, public health, business and law, representations of culture, technology, and/or nature in literature and art and climate change. Students from all majors welcome.
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3.00 Credits
Fundamental principles of Sustainability. Goal is to provide a larger context for topics covered in sustainability courses. Topics covered include: What is Sustainability?, Climate Change and Environmental Challenges, systems Thinking/Systems Analysis, “Natural” Systems and Function, Human Interactions with Natural Systems, Ethics, and Values.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of environmental policy at the local, regional, and national level. Focus will be placed on the “incentive-based” approach to environmental regulation. There will be he opportunity to analyze a “real-life” environmental issue affecting the local region. Cross-listed as PSC 235
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of special areas in Sustainable Studies. May be repeated with change of content.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to basic concepts of environmental law. The emphasis is on broad introductory themes. Cross-listed as PSC 347
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3.00 Credits
Laws and policies associated with marine resource management. The declining status and productivity of many of our marine resources has led to growing concern about human activities such as pollution, overfishing, and environmental degradation. The course explores the fundamentals of policy analysis in order to gain insights into issues including jurisdiction, harvest regulation, ecosystem approaches, and environmental protection. Cross-listed as PSC 348
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
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