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Sustainable Design and Development educates a new generation of problem-solvers to approach the most difficult issues of today including sustainability related to the environment, food and agriculture, water, planning and development, forestry, energy and community capacity. The major is focused on creating healthy and prosperous communities while balancing decision-making with the triple bottom line: ecological, social and economic impacts (planet, people, profit). Through critical, analytic, and design thinking problem-solving skill development, graduates will have the ability to work on multidisciplinary projects through community engaged processes with the goal of creating a more sustainable world

Major Learning Outcomes

Sustainable Design and Development

1. Define sustainability as it relates to global, regional and local resource planning and development;
2. Analyze the impacts of decision-making in resource management and development in terms of ecology, society and economy;
3. Apply critical, analytic, and design thinking to problem-solving at a variety of scales and within a variety of contexts;
4. Develop and apply an understanding of social, environmental, economic and political systems;
5. Model multidisciplinary approaches to address issues of sustainability;
6. Develop and execute trans-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects
7. Develop and apply skills in community engagement in project-based learning