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Virginia Tech

NR-5174: Sustainability Systems

Description: Systems thinking needed by sustainability professionals. Basic competencies, language, and confidence needed to engage with other experts in collaborative problem-solving processes of pressing global sustainability challenges. Focus on sustainability systems represented in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: water, climate, agriculture, energy, poverty, urbanization, global material flows, biodiversity. System properties and other leverage points for influencing change. Collaborative problem-solving skills needed to work on multidisciplinary teams. Double loop learning and reframing problems and questions. Pre: Graduate standing; restricted to Virtual Campus students.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

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Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 26

Average GPA: 3.85 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 88.02%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Daniel J Marcucci202490.0%6.3%2.3%0.0%1.4%0.0%3.8321
Robert B Hull202497.6%1.6%0.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.964
David P Robertson2021100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001

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