188.688.01 GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY & HEALTH SEMINAR Students and
faculty discuss the causes, consequences, and implications of
key global environmental challenges that we are facing and that
are likely to become more challenging over time. Specifically
addresses how land use (e.g., patterns of urban growth and
suburban sprawl), energy use, food production and distribution,
water use, and population growth are causing climate change,
ecosystem degradation, biodiversity losses, species extinctions,
and other resource depletion, and how all this is in turn is a
threat to human health as individuals, in communities, and
globally. Focuses on discussion and not lectures and will
utilize a mix of movies, guest discussants, and student directed
discussions. This seminar will prepare students to: 1) Define
the aspects of land use, energy use, food production and
distribution, water use, and population growth that contribute
to environmental degradation. 2) Analyze how peak petroleum (AKA
"after peak oil"), political obs