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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SUS 101 - Principles of Sustainability

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Nature of Global Society
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Fundamental principles of Sustainability. Goal is to provide a larger context for topics covered in sustainability courses. Topics covered include: What is Sustainability?, Climate Change and Environmental Challenges, systems Thinking/Systems Analysis, “Natural” Systems and Function, Human Interactions with Natural Systems, Ethics, and Values.
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