3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Distance Learning ScienceUpper Division(CE 35500) An introduction to the examination of global-scale resource utilization, food, energy and commodity production, population dynamics, and their ecosystem impacts.
Learning Outcomes1Students will be creative thinkers that can collect and analyze appropriate data and information, and perform necessary quantitative analysis to develop original and innovative management strategies for real-world sustainability problems.
2Students will be able to individually and in teams skillfully communicate in writing, orally, and with multimedia their ideas and conclusions about managing sustainability issues in a manner that increases knowledge and understanding of the audience.
3Students will be critical thinkers that can identify the environmental, social, political, and economic dimensions of technical challenges and evaluate their own and others' perspectives in forming logical opinions and conclusions.
4Students will be able to effectively identify information needs, efficiently acquire appropriate information, and critically evaluate and use it in an ethical and scholarly fashion to gain understanding of and communicate about sustainability issues, challenges, and strategies.
5Students will become global citizens and socially aware by gaining knowledge of diverse international and cultural perspectives and display social responsibility and leadership in managing sustainability issues, ultimately increasing their global literacy.
6Students will learn how to be a productive team member, constructively evaluate their own and others' performances, resolve conflicts effectively and encourage the willing contributions of everyone.