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Sustainability, Minor 

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Sustainability, Minor
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UNR 
Overview

Students will be able to describe the impact that their disciplines have on the broad sustainability issues of society after completion of this course

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

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Course Level

UG Certificate

Sustainability, Minor
 at 
UNR 
Highlights

  • Students will be able to participate in practical experiences and problem solutions that integrate their skills into the context
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Sustainability, Minor
 at 
UNR 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Students will be able to apply basic basic concepts of sustainablity in developing effective and interdisciplinary to sustainability problems
  • Students will have an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  • Students will have an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies
More about this course
  • Sustainability plays a central role in the future of humanity
  • Professionals in all disciplines not only need to working together finding solutions to important societal problems, but they also need a broader education and set of tools to devise and design solutions that encompass equity, social, and environmental sustainability
  • In this minor, students will be able to choose from a selection of courses, cured and developed, to enhance their education in sustainability, in general
  • These courses provide necessary knowledge and tools allowing to have a broader context to devise and design solutions that encompass equity, social, and environmental sustainability.

Sustainability, Minor
 at 
UNR 
Curriculum

A. REQUIRED CORE COURSES (9 UNITS)

ECON 307 - Environmental Economics (3 units)

ENGR 305 - Introduction to Sustainability (3 units)

PSC 320 - Policy Analysis

B. SUSTAINABILITY THEMES

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS & IMPACT OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES THEME

SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMICAL ASPECTS OF IMPACT ON SUSTAINABILITY THEME

RESOURCES & MATTER TRANSFORMATION INTO PRODUCTS & SERVICES THEME

EARTH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY THEME

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