USP 171Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is invoked by a wide range of actors and sectors that seek to promote environmentally sound and socially just approaches to economic development. This course critically examines the diverse, and often contradictory, definitions and applications of sustainability throughout the world. May be coscheduled with USP 271.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing or consent of instructor.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (6)
- Environmental Systems—Environmental Policy (B.A.)
- Global Health
- Global Health (GH26)
- Public Health (B.S.)
- Real Estate and Development (B.S.)
- Urban Studies and Planning (B.A.)