DWA 351 Advanced Topics in Global Sustainability

This junior seminar will focus on advanced scholarship on global sustainability/sustainable development scholarship. Since the Bruntland Commission's Report in 1992 these issues have become central to world affairs and diplomacy all the more so as the scientific and policy consensus around climate change has grown over the subsequent two decades. Most recently in September 2015 193 member states of the United Nations agreed to a set of bold Sustainable Development Goals. The course will provide students with knowledge about the genesis characteristics dynamics and consequences in the area of global sustainability/sustainable development. It also a course focused on research and writing in international affairs preparing students to write their senior comprehensives.