| SOS 510 |
Principles of Sustainability: University-wide course on
basic principles and perspectives of sustainability. Using case studies,
faculty and students from engineering, architecture, social sciences,
and natural sciences will exchange ideas on the major challenges faced
in forming a sustainable future at the local, national, and global levels. |
| SOS 511 |
Quantitative Methods in Sustainability: Provides a sense of when,
where, and how quantitative methods are used in studying questions related
to sustainability; a roadmap for furthering quantitative skill sets;
and opportunities to refresh and build some basic mathematical skills
from selected topics in differential and integral calculus, linear algebra,
and probability and statistics that will be required for further study. |
| SOS 512 |
Sustainable Resource Allocation: Microeconomic principles of resource
allocation applied to environmental goods and services; external environmental
effects and environmental public goods; decision-making under uncertainty;
adapting to and mitigation of environmental changes. |
| SOS 513 |
Science for Sustainability: Carbon cycle; nutrient cycles; carbon
and nutrients in the oceans; climate change; oxygen and ozone; solid-waste
pollution; urban-air pollution. |
| SOS 531 |
Social Transformations: Measures resilience in complex, social-ecological
systems; management approaches and policies for building resilience;
the relation between economic and environmental sustainability; environmental
sustainability of economic development strategies at national, regional
and local levels. |
| SOS 532 |
Urban Growth: Human and physical processes shaping urban ecologies
and environments; human-environment interactions in the context of an
urban region; effect of the institution and regulatory framework on the
ability of social and urban-ecological systems to be resilient and sustainable;
urban design, materials, transport, planning, and regulation. |
| SOS 533 |
Water Quality and Scarcity: Hydrological, legal, political, and ecological
implications of alternative water management strategies; effect of institutional
and regulatory frameworks; changes in water demand and supply due to
human (population growth, economic changes) and natural (drought, climate
change) factors. |
| SOS 534 |
Sustainable Energy and Material Use: Sustainable engineering; overall
energy needs and impacts; thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanisms;
atmospheric energy systems; field investigation; current and future urban
energy systems. |
| SOS 535 |
Sustainable Ecosystems: How human activities and management practices
alter biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provisioning of ecosystem
services; use of economic and other social-science perspectives to estimate
the value of ecosystem services; evaluation of options for achieving
the sustainable flow of services from ecosystems. |
| SOS 591 |
IGERT Intellectual Issues: Exposes students and faculty participants
to varied perspectives. The purpose of the seminar will be to attack
and critically analyze an integrative multidisciplinary issue and, more
importantly, to use that forum to learn how to overcome barriers generated
by disciplinary traditions. The subject of this seminar changes each
year. |
| SOS 591 |
Institutions, Environment, and Society |
| SOS 594 |
Climate Change Adaptation Workshop |
| SOS 594 |
State Land Workshop |
| SOS 598 |
Advanced Earth Systems Engineering and Management: Introduces students
to the conceptual and practical challenges arising from the practice
of engineering in the context of the anthropogenic earth, characterized
by integrated human/natural complex adaptive systems at local, regional
and global scales. |
| SOS 598 |
Human Dimensions of Sustainability: Concepts and definitions of the
human dimensions of sustainability; the role of attitudes and values
in shaping sustainability goals, practices, and programs; the diversity
of values and socio-cultural contexts relating to sustainability; bottom-up
and top-down sustainable policy development, social data collection methodologies. |
| SOS 598 |
Industrial Ecology and Design for Sustainability: The conceptual,
ethical, and practical challenges in the design, manufacture, and lifecycle
performance of products; environmental evaluation via materials flow
analysis and life cycle assessment; global economic, environmental, cultural,
and social aspects of competitive and functional product development
and manufacture. |
| SOS 598 |
International Development and Sustainability: Historical roots of
the idea of development, economic theories of growth and their implications
for sustainability, interrelationship between population growth, food
security, poverty, inequality, urbanization, technological change, international
trade and environmental change at local, regional and global scale. |
| SOS 598 |
Introduction to Sustainability and Organizational Strategies: Focuses
on organizational strategies for technology companies competing in a
global environment. Focus will be on: strategic and tactical decision
implications of a life cycle value proposition, modeling and analysis
for strategic decisions about product / service bundles and delivery
mechanisms, innovation, technology including the linkages to the firm
strategy and empirical evidence, supply, demand and value chain as well
as research of laws, guidelines and international agreements. |
| SOS 598 |
Science, Technology, and Public Affairs: Political, economic, cultural,
and moral foundations of science and technology policy and governance
in democratic society. |
| SOS 598 |
Statistics for Sustainability |
| SOS 598 |
Sustainable Transportation System: Transportation system overview;
externalities overview; transportation, land-use, and mobility needs;
energy consumption, dependence, and alternative energy sources and vehicles;
air quality impacts; safety impacts; noise impacts; natural resources
consumption; economics; health/social impacts; and global warming and
long potential climate change. |
| SOS 598 |
Urban Ecological Systems: Deals broadly with the general topic of
ecology of and in urban environments. The class will consider the physical,
ecological, and social environment of cities, and how these spheres can
possibly be integrated in studies of urban ecological systems. |
| SOS 598 |
Water Policy and Management: Covers water policy and management focused
on Arizona. Useful to anyone looking for a general background on water
issues in Arizona or considering a career in water resources and environmental
engineering, planning, or public policy. Divided into three major sections:
the history of water resources development and hydrology of Arizona;
water management in Arizona; and an examination of current issues and
controversies. |
