Classes

SUST 401: Surveying Sustainability

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2019
SUST 401 Course Catalog Description
In this course, we focus on discovering what sustainability means, understanding the challenges to achieving it, and exploring solutions that meet sustainability goals.  Module 1 is an orientation to interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, with an exploration of the multiple meanings of sustainability. Module 2 is a place-based exploration of specific sustainability issues and debates as they present themselves at UNH, the broader region, national and international scales. Module 3 is an introduction to the different scales and venues in which sustainability challenges... Read more about SUST 401: Surveying Sustainability

SUST 501: Sustainability Perspectives & Methods

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
SUST 501 Course Catalog Description
The overall objective of SUST 501 is to delve into the ways in which people collaborate to address sustainability challenges. SUST 501 delves into what sustainability science and action entails from academic and practitioner perspectives. We begin by establishing the cross-cutting concepts that run throughout sustainability science including different ways of knowing, ethics, collaboration, and interdisciplinarity. The second part of the course builds on this foundational knowledge to explore more deeply the collaborative nature of transdisciplinary efforts, look at how boundary work can... Read more about SUST 501: Sustainability Perspectives & Methods

SUST 750: Sustainability Capstone

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019
SUST 750 Course Catalog Description
The overall objective of SUST 750 is to synthesize the knowledge obtained in other core and elective courses taken for the Sustainability Dual Major and work in groups to apply that knowledge to a specific project. As sustainability science is focused on developing solutions to place-based sustainability challenges, students will delve into a specific sustainability issue, applying their disciplinary expertise within interdisciplinary teams. Each semester will focus on... Read more about SUST 750: Sustainability Capstone