ENVI 297
Global Sustainable Development
Last Offered Fall 2022
Division II
D Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed
GBST 287
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
In 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals, an ambitious multi-pronged effort to eliminate poverty, improve health outcomes, advance clean energy, address the effects of climate change, and support more equitable forms of life on earth. This course explores the historical antecedents and contemporary manifestations of global sustainable development, a constellation of ideas and a set of policy imperatives. This course will ask: what is sustainability and how did it emerge as a key paradigm in the present? Relatedly, how have different organizations and actors worked to address entrenched global challenges? Students will engage a range of materials, including policy documents from the United Nations, World Bank, and international non-governmental organizations. Students will also explore critical scholarship on the possibilities and limitations of global development. Together we will grapple with ways to build more sustainable futures.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1766
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1766
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Class discussions; 2 Policy Analysis Papers (4-6 pages each); Class presentations; Final Take-Home exam (8-10 pages)
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
Envi majors and concentrators
Distributions:
Divison II
Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
GBST 287 Division II ENVI 297 Division II
GBST 287 Division II ENVI 297 Division II
DPE Notes:
This class considers topics of global inequality, including the impacts of colonialism, uneven development, extractive capitalism, gender-based discrimination/violence, and racial/ethnic environmental disparities. Students are invited to reconsider stereotypes about the "developing world" through a deep engagement with history and policy-making.
Attributes:
ENVI Environmental Policy
EVST Social Science/Policy
EVST Social Science/Policy
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ENVI 297 - SEM Global Sustainable Development
ENVI 297 SEM Global Sustainable DevelopmentDivision II D Difference, Power, and EquityNot offered