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This course provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the issues associated with applying the concepts, foundations, and metrics of global environmental sustainability applied to global challenges within the fields of environmental sciences in agricultural, urban and rural contexts of the developing and developed world. The course first explores the historical development of "sustainability" as a concept and it will then look at how the concept of sustainability has influenced real-world practice in various sectors such as: health, agriculture, natural resource management, poverty reduction, and other relevant areas of study.
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Dr. Renée Harmon is an instructor in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. She earned her Ph.D. in Education and Human Resource Studies from Colorado State University, and her dissertation, titled Assessing College Students' Sustainability Literacy: The Development, Use, and Analysis of an Assessment Tool (2019), describes the development and analysis of CSU's sustainability literacy assessment (SLA). Still in use today, the results of the SLA are reported to the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, also referred to as STARS.
Dr. Harmon has taught college courses for over a decade and has earned awards for her work in online education, including CSU's Best Teacher Award in 2018. Dr. Harmon's research interests include sustainability education, assessment, and literacy; leadership; case-based instruction; and community education. She follows a mastery approach to teaching, with a passion for supporting students' writing and scholarship.