Environmental Transformations
DEVS 250
200-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
2
one-way Exclusions
Tutorial, online activity, private study
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Course Description
Examines the relationship between development and environmental change by introducing social science perspectives on themes including energy, agriculture, climate, urbanization, and water. With a focus on combining macro- and micro-analysis, the course reflects on the meaning of development in an era of global environmental transformation.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the core tensions between development and sustainability goals in the 21st century.
- Assess, contrast, and apply different social science perspectives to understand conflicts and trade offs in sustainability policy and practice.
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of diverging approaches to policymaking in sustainable development.
- Mobilize interdisciplinary thinking to analyze case studies of sustainability in diverse global contexts.