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FREC-2554: Leadership for Global Sustainability

Description: Leadership principles and humanities perspectives that help examine and engage global sustainable development challenges such as climate change, food-water-energy nexus, rising middle class, circular economy, and environmental justice. Topics include collaboration, stories, conflict resolution, self-awareness, bias, equity, religion, hubris, globalism, and moral naturalism. Examine trade-offs among economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainable development. Integration and application of disciplinary topics including ethics, ecology, evolution, anthropology, economics, religion, aesthetics, and risk management.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 10 Ethical Reasoning, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: FREC-3544

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: LAR-2554, NR-2554

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 18

Average GPA: 3.61 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 64.63%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.66%

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