COR 455 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
This course explores the challenges and opportunities ahead in creating an environmentally safe and socially just space for humanity, which fosters inclusive and sustainable economic development. The course focuses on the development and management of sustainable enterprises as the means for addressing these challenges and opportunities, including, public and private for-profit businesses, governmental, non-governmental, and non-profit organizations. Students will further their knowledge and understanding in preparation for their roles and contributions as global citizens. They will create a community of collaborative learning about developing and managing sustainable enterprises which addresses and integrates their majors and topics of interest within the three areas of sustainability: social well-being, economic well-being, and environmental well-being, within the means of the earth's limited natural resources and the critical thresholds which sustain ecosystems and human life. This course is writing intensive. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.