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Web: sustainabilitystudies.gmu.edu
The image designates a “Green Leaf” course or academic program, one which focuses on learning about sustainability, i.e., meeting our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
For more information, please go to http://sustainabilitystudies.gmu.edu/greenleaf/index.html.
Programs
Green Leaf academic programs focus on sustainability, usually including a required set of Green Leaf courses in order to cover the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Each is a vital contributor to Mason’s sustainability across the curriculum.
Undergraduate Degrees
- Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, BS
- Earth Science, BS
- Environmental and Sustainability Studies, BA (CHSS)
- Environmental Science, BS
- Geology, BA
- Global Affairs, BA
- Health, Fitness, and Recreation Resources, BS: Concentration in Parks and Outdoor Recreation
- Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management, BS (title change pending SCHEV approval)
Undergraduate Minors and Certificates
Bachelor’s/Accelerated Master’s Program
Graduate Degrees
* Meets Green Leaf criteria when options are selected to ensure coverage of “people, planet and prosperity” across the program’s curriculum.
**Meets the Green Leaf criteria when the Master’s degree is paired with a Green Leaf Bachelor’s degree.
Courses
The Green Leaf designation recognizes offerings that contribute significantly to students’ understanding and practice of sustainability. These offerings extend beyond environmental management, natural resources protection and conservation studies alone as Mason’s Green Leaf curricula comprise both sustainability-focused and sustainability-related courses.
Sustainability-focused courses provide valuable grounding in the concepts and principles of sustainability. These courses educate students about how different dimensions of sustainability relate to and support each other in theory and practice. In addition, these courses help equip students with the skills to weave together disparate components of sustainability in addressing complex issues.
Sustainability-related courses help build knowledge about a component of sustainability or introduce students to sustainability concepts during part of the course. They may complement sustainability-focused courses by providing students with in-depth knowledge of a particular aspect or dimension of sustainability (such as the natural environment) or by providing a focus area (such as renewable energy) for a student’s sustainability studies, or they may broaden students’ understanding of sustainability from within different disciplines.
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