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Jan 02, 2025
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ES 6831 - Environmental Sustainability Assessment
An introduction to sustainability assessment theory and application with special reference to the majors, degree programs, and career aspirations of the students in this practicum-style course. Class culminates in working with a local client to perform a sustainability assessment and, with this client in mind, analyzing, contextualizing, and writing up results and implications of the assessment.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 3.0 field experience/internship
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Critically assess your work on this assessment.
- Design a process of sustainability assessment for a particular client.
- Develop a professional relationship with a client needing a sustainability assessment.
- Explain in plain language to a potential client two or three bench marking assessment choices.
- Explain to a layperson what sustainability means in their particular context and how and why assessment might be accomplished.
- Identify decision criteria that mark progress toward sustainability assessment.
- Point out trade-offs that will ensue in any assessment of progress toward sustainability.
- Succinctly present your results to an audience of peers.
- Work collaboratively with a client in performing the assessment and presenting results in ways that are tangible and helpful to the client.
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