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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students will advance their efforts for a sustainability career through a series of professional development activities, guest speakers, and co-curricular activities. They will strengthen their sustainability challenges, and will develop experience in appropriate methods for addressing these challenges. Students will also utilize this course to meet MSUS program expectations.
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3.00 Credits
The overall goal of this course is to examine the role that science contributes to sustainability. Students will critically assess process, evidence, uncertainty, application, and communication for traditional and alternative scientific methods through focused issues of sustainability (i.e., climate change, energy consumption, water pollution, urban ecosystems, children's environmental health, agroecosystems).
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the economic dimensions of environmental change through the frameworks of political ecology, political economy, development studies, and sustainability. Through case studies and current theory, we will investigate the costs, benefits, and sustainability of environmental governance.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the role of the "social" as one of the three pillars of sustainability. It explores historic and contemporary notions of ethics, social equity and social justice. It examines how these concepts can be applied to sustainability by studying local and global case studies.
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3.00 Credits
This class builds a foundation for sustainability management through exploration of Transition Management, a methodology for sustainable innovation. Students study innovation management, learn steps in managing a transition through analyzing systemic socio-technical problems, learn to develop potential solutions, and understand the organizational and societal structures necessary to support long-term change.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores urban processes through the field of planning and a critical look at human/environment relationships in cities. Students will advance their knowledge of cities and how they function through in depth readings of governance, urban ecology, urban political ecology, food, infrastructure, policy, and inequality in metropolitan areas.
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3.00 Credits
The class helps students develop skills for managing innovation focusing on Food, Agriculture, Environmental and Social Product and Service innovations. Students will work with actual ideas and or start-ups from local incubators and entrepreneurs. The class focuses on helping students to develop skills to use innovations for solving major social and environmental problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the development and application of skills for communicating the principles, evidence, complexity and stories of sustainability. Students will be introduced to the major revolutions in communication technologies, various communication strategies (risk, health, environmental, science, green marketing), and the best practices in technical, web, and visual communication.
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3.00 Credits
The application of design principles to data provides a bridge between the increasing volume of information that we encounter everyday to evidence-based, decision-making toward sustainable systems. This course provides a hands-on introduction to data analysis, data visualization techniques, and software for translating complexity and uncertainty into useful products.
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2.00 Credits
Students will critically assess the visual media of film across a range of formats for their design and effectiveness as part of sustainability efforts. Students will then utilize the knowledge to create a film proposal to address a sustainability issue of their choice.
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