Name: Introduction to Sustainability
Brand: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.8 (823 reviews)

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This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management)....

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Nov 11, 2020

Brilliant! Really brought alot of issues to hand I had no idea about, the lectures are easy to understand and clear! I've kept alot of the info to look back on I can't recommend enough!

Aug 22, 2020

This is a nice course for anyone who wants to have a start on this journey. It is easy to understand, covers a lot of topics that relates to everything and give you a profound insight of the world

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Sep 17, 2025

The course content requires revision. Several articles and video links are outdated and no longer functional. Additionally, grading issues in modules need to be addressed. The delivery of the course is overly simplistic, and the language tone is dull. Furthermore, the design of grading questions appears to follow outdated university patterns, which is illogical. Therefore, the entire course necessitates an overhaul and improved delivery. Clear questions should be posed in simple and concise language to make the course interesting and impactful.