SUST630

Methods and Practices of Sustainability focuses on appropriate means and tools for gathering information to support sustainability analysis, interventions and actions, as well as techniques for using community information to build agreement and consensus.

This course trains students in multi method research techniques, integrating both qualitative and quantitative tools. An emphasis is placed on participatory approaches to documentation, discourse, valuing and decision-making, informed by the National Environmental Policy Act and participatory design methods.

Students will emerge from the course with the working draft of a research proposal that can then be developed over the following semesters into their Capstone Project.

This course will follow a format of 50% online lectures and 50% in-class discusisons.