ClassInfo - Spring 2021 Grand Challenge Curriculum Classes Taught by Megan Voorhees

Spring 2021 | GCC 1907 Section 001: Environmental Grand Challenges: What Impact Will You Have? (66006)

Instructor(s): Megan Voorhees
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Seminar
Online Course
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021

Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (15 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2023

Course Catalog Description:: What does it mean to live a life that aligns with your values in a time of rapid global environmental transformations driven by climate change, mass extinction of plant and animal species, and the increasing pollution of our oceans, atmosphere, and soils? How can we live sustainably, as individuals and societies, and what disciplines and approaches will we need to achieve this? Where does one start--at this University, in Minnesota, or around the world? We will explore these questions in these ways: -with an overview of sustainability science, both what it says about about human and natural systems and how it comes to make these claims -by exploring the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals -by exploring what we know about effective leadership within complex grand challenges, both social and environmental, and how this is enabled through a systems thinking approach -by examining the conflicts that exist within and between differing visions of sustainability through Minnesota-based case studies in climate change and ensuring safe drinking water Throughout the course, we will meet with campus and community leaders who are working to address our environmental grand challenges and focus on solutions that are working, and ways that each of us can have a positive impact.
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