丁香园AV

Development and Sustainability Minor Program

Development and Sustainability Program | Faculty of Environment
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Fall

This minor program explores various aspects of sustainability that arise from the complex relationship between development and environment, including discussion of practice and policy issues in relation to problem-solving and examination of thematic areas at various scales (from local to global) that enhance the quality of life.

Program entry is on a competitive basis and requires completion of 30 lower division units. A 2.75 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is required. Students must also be in good standing in their major program's home department.

Lower Division Requirements

Students complete

• DEVS 201 Introduction to Development and Sustainability (3)

Upper Division Requirements

Students complete a total of 16 units including

• DEVS 401 Issues, Concepts and Cases in Development and Sustainability (4)

and the remaining 12 units chosen from the following which must include at least two courses from outside the student's home unit (department, school, or faculty).

Archaeology

• ARCH 365 Ecological Archaeology (3)
• ARCH 377 Historical Archaeology (5)
• ARCH 385 Paleoanthropology (5)
• ARCH 386 Archaeological Resource Management (3)

Communication

• CMNS 342 Science and Public Policy: Risk Communication (4)
• CMNS 346 Communication and Development (4)
• CMNS 347 Communication in Conflict and Intervention (4)
• CMNS 388 Special Topics in Communication (4)
• CMNS 425 Applied Communication for Social Issues (4)
• CMNS 426 Video Design for Social Communication (4)
• CMNS 444 Political Economy of International Communication (4)
• CMNS 446 The Communication of Science and the Transfer Of Technology (4)
• CMNS 447 Negotiation and Dialogue as Communication (4)
• CMNS 456 Communication to Mitigate Disasters (4)

Economics

• ECON 355W Economic Development (4)

Education

• EDUC 311 Foundations in Aboriginal Education, Language, and Culture (3)
• EDUC 370 International and Intercultural Education (4)
• EDUC 435 Infusing Global Perspectives into Curriculum (4)
• EDUC 441 Multicultural and Anti-racist Education (4)
• EDUC 452 Environmental Education (8)

First Nations Studies

• FNST 332 Ethnobotany of British Columbia First Nations (3)
• FNST 383 Indigenous Technology: Art and Sustainability (4)
• FNST 401 Aboriginal Rights and Government Relations (3)
• FNST 403 Indigenous Knowledge in the Modern World (3)
• FNST 433 Indigenous Environmental Activism (4)

Geography

• GEOG 322 World Resources (4)
• GEOG 323 Industrial Location (4)
• GEOG 324 Geography of Transportation (4)
• GEOG 325 Geographies of Consumption (4)
• GEOG 327 Geography of Tourism (4)
• GEOG 382 Population Geography (4)
• GEOG 383 Regional Development and Planning I (4)
• GEOG 389W Nature and Society (4)
• GEOG 422 Theories and Practices of Development (4)
• GEOG 429 Environment and Inequality (4)
• GEOG 466 Latin American Regional Development (4)
• GEOG 468 Society and Environment in China (4)

Health Sciences

• HSCI 308 Sickness and Wealth: Health in Global Perspective (3)
• HSCI 340 Social Determinants of Health (3)
• HSCI 406 Global Perspectives in Indigenous Health (3)
• HSCI 412 Health Communication (3)
• HSCI 431 The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic (3)

History

• HIST 322 Atlantic and Pacific Migration (4)
• HIST 361 The History of Science: The Eighteenth Century to the Present (4)
• HIST 363 History of Technology (4)
• HIST 377 Environmental History (4)
• HIST 425 Gender and History (4)
• HIST 427 Problems in the History of Aboriginal Peoples (4)
• HIST 472 Problems in World History (4)
• HIST 432 Problems in Environmental History (4)
• HIST 455 Race in the Americas (4)
• HIST 458 Problems in Latin American Regional History (4)
• HIST 459 Problems in the Political and Social History Latin America (4)

Humanities

• HUM 325 The Humanities and the Natural World (4)

International Studies

• IS 313W Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Modern India (4)
• IS 314 National, Regional, and International Politics in Southeast Asia (4)
• IS 409 Special Topics I (4)
• IS 410 Politics, Institutions and Development (4)
• IS 429 Special Topics III (4)

Political Science

• POL 335 Government and Politics: People's Republic of China (4)
• POL 342 Developing Countries in Global Politics (4)
• POL 343 Global Political Economy (4)
• POL 346 International Organization (4)
• POL 373 Human Security (4)
• POL 374 Africa in the Global Political Economy (4)
• POL 433 Comparative Development (4)
• POL 442 The Political Economy of International Trade (4)
• POL 446 International Relations in East Asia (4)
• POL 447 Theories of Global Political Economy (4)

Resource and Environmental Management

• REM 356 Institutional Arrangements for Sustainable Environmental Management (3)

Sociology and Anthropology

• SA 302W Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (S or A) (4)
• SA 316 Tourism and Social Policy (S or A) (4)
• SA 363 Process of Development and Underdevelopment (S or A) (4)
• SA 371 The Environment and Society (S or A) (4)
• SA 392 Latin America (S or A) (4)
• SA 396 Selected Regional Areas (S or A) (4)
• SA 418 International Health: Global Policies and Local Realities (S or A) (4)
• SA 429 Sex, Work, and International Capital (S or A) (4)
• SA 430 States, Cultures and Global Transitions (S or A) (4)
• SA 463 Special Topics in Development Studies (S or A) (4)

Sustainable Community Development

• SCD 301 Sustainable Community Development Theory and Practice (4)
• SCD 401 Social Enterprise for Sustainable Community Development (4)
• SCD 403 Leadership in Sustainable Community Development (4)

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