University General Course Catalog 2025-2026 (DRAFT) 
    
    Dec 22, 2024  
University General Course Catalog 2025-2026 (DRAFT)
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GEOG 212 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

(3 units) CO12
Humans rely on a series of inter-connected, complex systems to provide them with food, housing, transportation, energy, and water. This course explores the ethics of sustainable development from a geographic perspective, which focuses on interconnected issues impacting cities and communities and the policies and proposals designed to address these issues. Students will gain a basic understanding of the legacies of urbanization (natural, social, cultural, economic, and political) and the ethical implications of sustainable development for people and the planet.

Maximum units a student may earn: 3

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. identify an ethical issue and analyze that issue in relationship to sustainable regional development.
2. identify the specific entities (e.g., populations, places, environments), being affected by the ethical dilemmas related to sustainable regional development.
3. articulate why a specific course of action is ethically defensible.
4. articulate connections between/among historical and contemporary approaches to regional development and sustainability, including the roles of political, historical, economic and cultural contexts in shaping these situations.


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