Sustainability is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that focuses on the two main global challenges of our time – climate change and finite planetary resources. The courses in this concentration explore how corporations, governments, environmental organizations, and universities are addressing these challenges in a variety of ways, such as environmental activism, technical innovations in renewable energy, green building design, and transportation; community organizing, new organizational models, media campaigns, environmental legislation, and sustainability literacy. Students with demonstrated knowledge of sustainability may pursue careers in virtually all areas of employment that are mainstreaming sustainability, such as business, government agencies, community and nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, real estate, environmental organizations, and economic development.
Sustainability
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Requirements
Sustainability Concentration
Students select 16 credits from the list of courses.
- ECON1-UC0362 Environmental Economics 4
- ORBC1-UC2253 Green Design and the Future of Organizations 4
- ORBC1-UC2224 Corporate Social Responsibility 4
- BUSN1-UC0376 Sustainable Management Principles 4
- BUSN1-UC0377 Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies 4
- REAL1-UC1050 NYC: The Future Metropolis 4
- DGCM1-UC2234 Engaged and Sustainable Media 4
- LITR1-UC6251 Literature and the Environment 4
- SUST1-UC2205 Current Sustainability Issues: 2
- SUST1-UC2000 Environmental Activism in Global Perspective 2-4
- SCNC1-UC3209 NYC¿s Natural and Urban Environment 4
- REAL1-UC1030 Affordable and Sustainable Housing 4