UGS 2011 - Empathic Sustainability

Institution:

University of Utah

Subject:

Undergraduate Studies

Description:

This course will provide students with new ways of thinking about the ways they engage the complex, interrelated systems we must recognize as we re-imagine creating sustainable human settlements. Using case studies from cities around the world, where practical, elegant local solutions to common global problems associated with resource depletion and distribution, housing, climate change, public health, and human rights have spawned innovation, students will use their personal experiences and observations as points of departure for identifying problems they want to solve in their future professions. Instead of looking at our shared challenges in restoring and creating sustainable human settlements as an existential burden, students will emerge from this class with a sense of their ability to help solve the integrated social, environmental and economic problems of our time.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utah.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 581-7200

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

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