Sustainability Courses

This course addresses the role of international law in global environmental protection and to a range of issues raised by humankind's ecological impacts. After a brief overview of international law, the course analyzes and critiques the legal regimes that have developed to address specific global environmental crises. Among the crises addressed in the course are global warming, climate change, biological diversity, freshwater sources, oceans and marine life, species extinction, and global trade ...

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Advanced Environmental Litigation Seminar This seminar will explore the pitfalls and opportunities that often arise in environmental disputes from the perspective of the parties (companies, governments, citizen groups, and indigenous groups) that commonly find themselves in those disputes. This discussion-based seminar will be divided into four parts: -Introduction to the parties, types of disputes, and forums for resolving those disputes; -Litigating at state and federal agencies, including b...

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This course introduces a theoretical and practical study of leadership, issues and trends for professional concentration areas, best practices for scholarly research, implications for social justice, and opportunities to build a supportive cohort community through teambuilding, problem solving, and collaboration. Required first course in the doctoral program. Note: There is a fee for this course.

Read more about EOLL-6000 : Leadership: Orientation

Equips leaders to deepen multicultural perspectives of self and others, consider actions for inclusion and equity, and advance social betterment. Orients leaders to theoretical, personal, social, and professional components of social justice through exploration of literature, investigation of social justice issues, and development of a personal philosophical statement relevant to leadership for social justice.

Read more about EOLL-6050 : Leaders and Social Justice

This seminar is an examination of perspectives on equity and access, excellence, and efficiency concerns in American workplace and learning organizations. This course aims to provide students with a working knowledge of cross-cultural and intersectional leadership and management practices, help them develop a global mindset, enhance their cultural intelligence, as well as equip them with theoretical and analytical tools to make sound decisions in a multi-cultural setting.

Read more about EOLL-6111 : Inclusive Workplaces and Learning Organizations

The purpose of this course is to understand how to use organizational diagnosis and strategic planning to help organizational leaders transform their organizations from their present state to a desired improved future state that allows organizations and their members to grow and develop to their full potential. Students learn strategies for the implementation of change, innovation, and entrepreneurship aimed at improving macro and micro-organizational environments.

Read more about EOLL-6320 : Catalysts for Change

Cohort experience focused on leadership in an interdependent world; emphasizes culturally relevant practices to advance social justice and enact effective change in broader community contexts. This is part of the EOLL 6410, 6420, 6430 series that requires 9 credits total over fall, winter, spring. There is a course fee for this series due fall quarter when the series begins.

Read more about EOLL-6410 : Leader Global World I

This course serves as a practical opportunity for students to apply the content knowledge from their doctoral coursework to a community-based problem for a regional or global organization. Combining a practicum format with a social justice orientation, students will work collaboratively with community partners to identify a problem and develop a project for addressing the problem.

Read more about EOLL-6420 : Community Engaged Leadership

In this course, you will explore the challenges and opportunities of achieving sustainability that is ecologically sound and socially just.  We will learn how the different disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities understand the drivers of environmental change and approach sustainability, social equity and environmental justice. In-class and through your own research, you will critically assess environmental problems and learn about creative solutions.  We will explore...

Read more about EVST-1600 : Sustainability, People and Environment

Natural history is a way of inquiry into nature characterized by systematic empirical investigation and interpretation of botanical, zoological, and geological phenomena in their natural habitats. Students will develop observational, analytical, and interpretive skills in varied field settings through qualitative and quantitative research methodologies that focus on the origins and evolution of selected flora, fauna, and landscape features as well as their integration into ecological wholes. Lec...

Read more about EVST-2100 : Natural History: Theory and Practice