Sustainability Course Repository

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Genocide, Terrorism & Violence

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Global Food Justice

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Global Health

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Global Law

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Men and Masculinities

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : National Security

This course explores global health in Belize or Nicaragua from an interdisciplinary perspective with a classroom component in spring quarter and a two-week service-learning component in summer. It will challenge you to learn about how health of populations is linked to other social, political, and economic systems in the global landscape and to consider what differences you can make as a professional beyond traditional career paths.

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Nursing in Belize/Nicaragua

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Politics of Reproduction

Globally, excess female mortality after birth and 'missing' girls at birth account every year for an estimated 3.9 million women below the age of 60. About two-fifths of them are never born, one-fifth goes missing in infancy and childhood, and the remaining two-fifths do so between the ages of 15 and 59' (World Bank, 2012). In this course you will learn how the social sciences help us understand this current world crisis and why the health of women and children is seen by many institutes as a pr...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Women and Children

In this course you will investigate the global implications of the changes in the Arctic’s physical environment. The course will address the global implications of the melting permafrost of the continental Arctic and the Arctic Ocean sea ice. There are ecological, environmental and political effects of an unfrozen Arctic. Although the Arctic is comprised of eight countries many more regions on the planet will be affected by the physical change to high latitude environments.

Read more about UCOR-3800 : Arctic Environment