SustainabilitySpecialization
“Going through this program, students will not only have an understanding of how to better protect the planet,” he said, “they will also have a better feel for how sustainability directly affects people, economics, business and how interdependent they are.”
M I C H I G A N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
For more program information contact:Geoff Habron, Director: [email protected] / 517.432.0073Laurie Thorp, Assistant Director: [email protected] / 517.432.4944
SustainabilitySpecialization
Elective courseswith no (or minimal) pre-requisites
Elective courses with pre-requisites
Social Equity ANP 201 Sociocultural Diversity FW 211 Gender and Environmental IssuesGEO 151 Cultural Geography ISS 215 Social Differentiation and InequalityISS 225 Power, Authority, and ExchangeISS 310 People and EnvironmentISS 315 Global Diversity and InterdependencePHL 200 Introduction to Philosophy PHL 353 Core Themes in Peace and Justice StudiesPHL 342 Environmental Ethics SOC 215 Race and EthnicitySOC 216 Sex and Gender SOC 330 Social Stratification SOC 368 Science, Technology and SocietySOC 452 Environment and Society
ANP 321 Anthropology of Social MovementsANP 330 Race, Ethnicity and NationANP 430 Culture, Resources, PowerANP 431 Gender, Environment and DevelopmentANP 436 Globalization and Justice IAH 231A Themes and Issues: Human Values and the Arts and Humanities PHL 452 Ethics and Development
Ecological Integrity
BS 110 Organisms and PopulationsENT 205 Pest, Society and EnvironmentFOR 220 Forests and the Global Environment FW 101 Fisheries & Wildlife Fundamentals FW 203 Resource EcologyGEO 204 World Regional Geography GEO 206 Physical Geography GLG 319 Introduction to Earth System Science ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability*ISP 203A Understanding Earth: Global ChangeISP 203B Understanding Earth: Natural Hazards and the EnvironmentISP 217 Water and the EnvironmentISP 221 Earth Environment and Energy*LB 144 Biology I: Organismal Biology
FOR 404 Forest EcologyFW 364 Ecological Problem SolvingFW 444 Conservation BiologyZOL 355 Ecology
Aesthetic Appreciation
IAH 209 Art, the Visual, and Culture STA 112 Art and Design: Concepts and Practices WRA 341 Writing Nature and the Nature of Writing
AH 241F Creative Arts and Humanities: Traditions in World Art (I)IAH 231B Themes and Issues: Moral Issues and the Arts and HumanitiesIAH 241E Creative Arts and Humanities: The Creative Process PHL 345 AestheticsWRA 360 Visual Rhetoric
Economic Vitality
EC 201 Introduction to MicroeconomicsEC 202 Introduction to MacroeconomicsEEP 255 Ecological Economics
EC 310 Economics of Developing CountriesEEP 320 Environmental Economics EEP 405 Corporate Environmental ManagementESA 460 Natural Resource Economics FOR 464 Natural Resource Economics and Social ScienceMC 241 Politics and Markets MC 361 Political Economy and Comparative Public Policymaking: Environmental Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall, Room 230http://sustainabilityspecialization.msu.edu
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Major Code 5333November, 2010
Students in this program will work closely with a team of
faculty and staff members to design projects, engage in
co-curricular activities, and select course work that help them
attain competency across the personal development domain
and across the sustainability content areas.
The academic specialization in sustainability requires students
achieve wholeness and balance among the following
competency areas:
— social equity
— economic vitality
— ecological integrity
— aesthetic understanding
— critical thinking
— systems thinking
— personal awareness and development (knowledge of self)
— civic engagement
Students may achieve some of their competencies through
non-credit experiences that become part of their learning
portfolio. These portfolios will be assessed by a team of core
competency faculty, who will apply rubrics designed around
each competency area to the artifacts and evidence students
turn in and reflect upon in order to demonstrate competency.
This assessment will be an iterative process in which the core
competency team will provide comments that students will
have opportunity to respond to through revision of their work
until competency is achieved.
The increasing complexity of modern life brings challenges that
require global leaders and citizens who are capable of understanding
the relationships among the social, economic and environmental
elements and who have skills that can assist institutions and
communities to exercise sound judgments around our collective future.
Students will acquire and demonstrate
competency through a required introduc-
tory course, 11 elective credits (see back
for a list of suggested courses), a required
for-credit field project experience (research,
outreach, or teaching), annual portfolio
assessment and final defense of the
portfolio and project to a panel of faculty,
staff, and community members.
Participants include College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, College of Arts and
Letters, Broad College of Business, James
Madison College, College of Natural
Science, and College of Social Science.
The academic home for the program is the
Department of Community, Agriculture,
Recreation, and Resource Studies (CARRS).
Dr. Geoffrey Habron (Fisheries and Wildlife
and Sociology) and Dr. Laurie Thorp (RISE
Program) will coordinate the program.
3 required courses in the curriculum:
ACR 187 Introduction to SustainabilityIntroduction to and integration of the balance among social equity, ecological integrity, economic vitality, civic engage-ment, aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, systems thinking, personal development, competency-based learning; portfolio assessment.
ACR 387 Sustainability PracticumIntegration of sustainability competencies through applied research, outreach or teaching project; project defense presentation.
ACR 487 Sustainability Portfolio Capstone
Capstone presentation and explanation of sustainability competencies.
Students in this program will work closely with a team of
faculty and staff members to design projects, engage in
co-curricular activities, and select course work that help them
attain competency across the personal development domain
and across the sustainability content areas.
The academic specialization in sustainability requires students
achieve wholeness and balance among the following
competency areas:
— social equity
— economic vitality
— ecological integrity
— aesthetic understanding
— critical thinking
— systems thinking
— personal awareness and development (knowledge of self)
— civic engagement
Students may achieve some of their competencies through
non-credit experiences that become part of their learning
portfolio. These portfolios will be assessed by a team of core
competency faculty, who will apply rubrics designed around
each competency area to the artifacts and evidence students
turn in and reflect upon in order to demonstrate competency.
This assessment will be an iterative process in which the core
competency team will provide comments that students will
have opportunity to respond to through revision of their work
until competency is achieved.
The increasing complexity of modern life brings challenges that
require global leaders and citizens who are capable of understanding
the relationships among the social, economic and environmental
elements and who have skills that can assist institutions and
communities to exercise sound judgments around our collective future.
Students will acquire and demonstrate
competency through a required introduc-
tory course, 11 elective credits (see back
for a list of suggested courses), a required
for-credit field project experience (research,
outreach, or teaching), annual portfolio
assessment and final defense of the
portfolio and project to a panel of faculty,
staff, and community members.
Participants include College of Agriculture
and Natural Resources, College of Arts and
Letters, Broad College of Business, James
Madison College, College of Natural
Science, and College of Social Science.
The academic home for the program is the
Department of Community, Agriculture,
Recreation, and Resource Studies (CARRS).
Dr. Geoffrey Habron (Fisheries and Wildlife
and Sociology) and Dr. Laurie Thorp (RISE
Program) will coordinate the program.
3 required courses in the curriculum:
ACR 187 Introduction to SustainabilityIntroduction to and integration of the balance among social equity, ecological integrity, economic vitality, civic engage-ment, aesthetic understanding, critical thinking, systems thinking, personal development, competency-based learning; portfolio assessment.
ACR 387 Sustainability PracticumIntegration of sustainability competencies through applied research, outreach or teaching project; project defense presentation.
ACR 487 Sustainability Portfolio Capstone
Capstone presentation and explanation of sustainability competencies.
SustainabilitySpecialization
“Going through this program, students will not only have an understanding of how to better protect the planet,” he said, “they will also have a better feel for how sustainability directly affects people, economics, business and how interdependent they are.”
M I C H I G A N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
For more program information contact:Geoff Habron, Director: [email protected] / 517.432.0073Laurie Thorp, Assistant Director: [email protected] / 517.432.4944
SustainabilitySpecialization
Elective courseswith no (or minimal) pre-requisites
Elective courses with pre-requisites
Social Equity ANP 201 Sociocultural Diversity FW 211 Gender and Environmental IssuesGEO 151 Cultural Geography ISS 215 Social Differentiation and InequalityISS 225 Power, Authority, and ExchangeISS 310 People and EnvironmentISS 315 Global Diversity and InterdependencePHL 200 Introduction to Philosophy PHL 353 Core Themes in Peace and Justice StudiesPHL 342 Environmental Ethics SOC 215 Race and EthnicitySOC 216 Sex and Gender SOC 330 Social Stratification SOC 368 Science, Technology and SocietySOC 452 Environment and Society
ANP 321 Anthropology of Social MovementsANP 330 Race, Ethnicity and NationANP 430 Culture, Resources, PowerANP 431 Gender, Environment and DevelopmentANP 436 Globalization and Justice IAH 231A Themes and Issues: Human Values and the Arts and Humanities PHL 452 Ethics and Development
Ecological Integrity
BS 110 Organisms and PopulationsENT 205 Pest, Society and EnvironmentFOR 220 Forests and the Global Environment FW 101 Fisheries & Wildlife Fundamentals FW 203 Resource EcologyGEO 204 World Regional Geography GEO 206 Physical Geography GLG 319 Introduction to Earth System Science ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability*ISP 203A Understanding Earth: Global ChangeISP 203B Understanding Earth: Natural Hazards and the EnvironmentISP 217 Water and the EnvironmentISP 221 Earth Environment and Energy*LB 144 Biology I: Organismal Biology
FOR 404 Forest EcologyFW 364 Ecological Problem SolvingFW 444 Conservation BiologyZOL 355 Ecology
Aesthetic Appreciation
IAH 209 Art, the Visual, and Culture STA 112 Art and Design: Concepts and Practices WRA 341 Writing Nature and the Nature of Writing
AH 241F Creative Arts and Humanities: Traditions in World Art (I)IAH 231B Themes and Issues: Moral Issues and the Arts and HumanitiesIAH 241E Creative Arts and Humanities: The Creative Process PHL 345 AestheticsWRA 360 Visual Rhetoric
Economic Vitality
EC 201 Introduction to MicroeconomicsEC 202 Introduction to MacroeconomicsEEP 255 Ecological Economics
EC 310 Economics of Developing CountriesEEP 320 Environmental Economics EEP 405 Corporate Environmental ManagementESA 460 Natural Resource Economics FOR 464 Natural Resource Economics and Social ScienceMC 241 Politics and Markets MC 361 Political Economy and Comparative Public Policymaking: Environmental Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall, Room 230http://sustainabilityspecialization.msu.edu
30% Post Consumer Recycled Paper
Major Code 5333November, 2010
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