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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore how individuals and disciplines approach knowledge and inform sustainability. It will examine assumptions about the individual as a decision maker; explore the differences and similarities among academic disciplines; and explore the role of experts and expertise in sustainable development planning.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students the skills to understand, communicate, and critique the fundamentals of sustainability at multiple scales and across disciplines and cultures. It explores sustainability's origins and foundations, application, and assessment. We evaluate the inter-relationships among environmental, societal, and economic well-being and the implications on individual and social decision-making.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines art works and periods that reveal our changing attitudes towards nature. Works span botanical illustration and landscape painting to projects that restore and regenerate living systems. The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, the environmental movement, and sustainability are considered. Hands-on creative projects illuminate the course concepts.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses water policy, management, and sustainability. We will consider water resources with specific attention to the challenges that come with managing a resource that crosses a range of boundaries and scales. Topics include U.S. water policy, water privatization, water resources in the global south, infrastructure and climate change.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses topical environmental challenges (e.g.. water) and develops sustainable, leadership-based skills for managing these challenges. Students will learn about the social, ecological, and economic aspects of the topic, and then apply their knowledge to field experiences. Field experiences include service projects, fieldwork, or training.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course will become proficient in executing quantitative methods pertinent sustainability science, including multiple linear regression, descriptive multivariate statistics, and time series analyses. All assignments aim to generate experience with applied problem-solving and will require scriptwriting in program R to maximize analytical and data management efficiency. This course requires a foundation in statistical methods.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Pittsburgh and the surrounding region have experienced several waves of change; the current described as a "green renaissance". This course will provide a brief socio-ecological history then will visit various places and people that highlight the diversity in how Pittsburgh is striving to become a model of a sustainable city.
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3.00 Credits
At the core of the scientific approach to nature is a sense of wonder, a deep curosity about how biological and ecological systems work, change, and persist. In this course, students will examine the history and evolution of the ecological sciences from the 19th century through contemporary applications within sustainability.
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3.00 Credits
This class analyzes cities as systems with subsystems including living, transportation, food, water, energy and waste that can all contribute to sustainability and quality of life. Using systems thinking, we will study approaches toward urban sustainability and climate resiliency.
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