LINC 201
Sustainable Futures
Course overview
You’ll gain insight to creating more sustainable futures from overview of concepts and practices of sustainability.
Course information
| Prerequisites and Restrictions | You must satisfy the following requirement(s): pre-requisite
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| Available semesters | Semester 2 2024 |
| Credits | 15 |
| Domestic fees | $875.00 |
What you will learn
After successfully completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Chronicle the evolution of the concept of sustainability, including key historical events, institutions and documents.
- Describe different personal, social, economic and scientific approaches to improving sustainability.
- Detail the causes, impacts, perspectives and solutions to selected sustainability issues.
- Give a run-down of current tools, methods and approaches to achieving a sustainable future.
- Discuss issues surrounding the application of sustainability practices to enterprises.
- Describe how personal and collective actions and decisions can have impact on sustainability
- Think critically about sustainability issues and communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats about selected sustainability issues.
- Apply some established strategies, methods and tools to addressing sustainability issues.
- Analyse information about sustainability, critically evaluate that knowledge and put the knowledge into an appropriate and future-focused context.
- Bring interdisciplinary perspectives to understanding the challenges in improving sustainability.
Course examiners
Dr Christopher Rosin
Senior Lecturer
Department of Tourism, Sport and Society
christopher.rosin@lincoln.ac.nz