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Apr 24, 2024
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SUS 421 - Fostering Sustainable Behaviors3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: SUS 300 or SUS 301 with a grade of C- or higher. May be taken concurrently if not previously completed.
This course explores the roles of individuals, groups, and entire societies in fostering/inhibiting sustainable behaviors. Students study how changing individual worldviews and behaviors as well as altering pervasive social constructs are at the heart of sustainability work, and they explore diverse pathways for encouraging and implementing sustainability-oriented social change. Students explore how a variety of perspectives from fields such as environmental sociology, ecological and conservation psychology, political ecology, and social ecology can contribute to formulating appropriate personal and social responses to the sustainability crisis and to fostering sustainability-oriented social change.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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