3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
(ENGL 39300) This course is the lynchpin of the undergraduate Certificate in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. It will present a series of case studies, core concepts, and problem questions that integrate the following three academic approaches: 1) Human Dimensions and Environment/Sustainability, 2) Engineering and Environment/Sustainability, and 3) Environmental/Sustainability Sciences.
Learning Outcomes1Identify, describe, and relate the diverse causes (social, cultural, political, ethical, economic, historical, scientific, and engineered) and consequences of pressing environmental and sustainability challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity, population growth.
2Distinguish, paraphrase, and translate different disciplinary perspectives on these key environmental and sustainability challenges.
3Familiarize themselves with the efficacies, and learn to push the boundaries, of different disciplinary approaches by comparing and contrasting solutions to environmental issues.
4Combine different disciplinary approaches by synthesizing reorganizing, and reformulating diverse viewpoints.
5Demonstrate ability to communicate across disciplines on environmental and sustainability problems.
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