Education and sustainability

"A unit of instruction that has a primary and explicit focus on the integrated concept of sustainability and/or the interdependence of ecological and social/cultural/economic systems.This focus must be demonstrated in the title or high level description of the course."

Sustainability-focused courses may include:

• Foundational courses with a primary and explicit focus on sustainability (e.g. Introduction to Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainability Science).
• Courses with a primary and explicit focus on the application of sustainability within a field (e.g. Architecture for Sustainability, Green Chemistry, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business). As sustainability is an interdisciplinary topic, such courses generally incorporate insights from multiple disciplines.
• Courses with a primary and explicit focus on a major sustainability challenge that requires students to consider the interdependence of ecological and social/cultural/economic systems (e.g. Climate Change Science, Environmental Justice, Global Poverty and Development, Renewable Energy Policy). The focus of such courses might be on providing knowledge and understanding of the problems and/or the tools for solving them, but they should bring a systems thinking approach to the challenge.