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NR-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: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: FREC-2554, LAR-2554

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 9

Average GPA: 3.55 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 60.07%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.84%

Robert B Hull202469.7%17.4%10.6%0.9%0.6%0.8%3.559

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Fall 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W