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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
This course engages students in sustainability leadership through a series of case studies. Working in teams, participants develop strategies to engage diverse constituents, including making the business case, communicating to multiple audiences, and working in novel and unexpected environments. 6 days in residence at Chatham University, followed by an on-line component.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses water policy and governance. 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. The course will explore debates around topics such as Pittsburgh's urban water management, justice, climate change, and scarcity.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how people can engage in creating more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable communities at multiple scales, from the local to the regional. The reading and assignments emphasize sustainable planning theory and practice as well as sustainable food systems perspectives. Students will engage in practice-based research and community projects.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores food, farm, and environment through readings, films, lectures, demonstrations, field trips, and on-farm and kitchen experiences in research and production problems. Activities include presentations on specific topics, group discussions, hands-on lab and field activities, individual and group presentations, field trips, and reflection through writing, video, and photography
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1.00 Credits
This course explores the role of "social justice" as one of the pillars of sustainability by integrating the concepts associated with it into a local community-based project. Students have an opportunity to pursue a project designed and implemented in conversation with a community partner that incorporates key components of environmental and social justice.
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2.00 Credits
In this course, students will critically assess visual products across a range of formats for their design and effectiveness as part of sustainability efforts. Students will then utilize the knowledge to create and teach an environmental science lab for an undergraduate course in the second part of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to allow students to explore in depth a specific topic or area of sustainability.
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1.00 Credits
Course assists students in the preparation of thesis facilitating the transition from research and project development to writing. Includes a review of research methods and design, literature review, time management demands, project management, and presentation skills.
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3.00 Credits
Course provides supervision and research guidance for the final project. Students will complete a final project independently or as part of a group to complete the MSUS degree requirements. The form of the final project is flexible and should be linked to the student's self-defined sustainability challenge.
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1.00 Credits
Course provides supervision and research guidance for the final project. Students will complete a final project independently or as part of a group to complete the MSUS degree requirements. The form of the final project is flexible and should be linked to the student's self-defined sustainability challenge. Part one of two.
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