ENVST-160 Carbon Footprints and Sustainability

What is a carbon footprint? Is it a useful concept? What are the scientific, social and economic implications of measuring environmental impacts through the billion dollar industry of sustainability accounting? In seeking to answer these questions, this course uses the concept of the carbon footprint as a lens through which to understand and critically assess scientific, economic practices and social discourses around sustainability as it is practiced across American and global society today.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Offered

Spring

Notes

This course is open to first-year students only. (First Year Course).