Global to Local Sustainability:  This 3 credit course, offered in the fall,  provides understanding and critique of resilience theory, vulnerability analysis, and sustainability science literatures. It is team taught by the following faculty:

Terry Chapin, Professor of Ecology; Joshua Greenberg, Associate Professor of Resource Economics: Gary Kofinas, Associate Professor of Resource Policy and Management; 

Integrated Assessment and Adaptive Mangement: This 3 credit course, offered in the spring, trains students in the use of methods and practices of using integrated assessment for decision making.  It is team taught by the following faculty:

Gary Kofinas, Associate Professor of Resource Policy and Management; Amy Lovecraft,

Interdisciplinary Modeling of High latitude Global Change:  This optional 4 credit course includes a lab and is team taught every other year.  The course introduces students to approaches to modeling how regional and global environmental change influences biological and social systems in high latitudes and how the responses of these systems influence the regional and global functioning of the earth system. The following faculty teach this course:

A. David McGuire, Professor of Ecology; Scott Rupp, Associate Professor of Forest Management and Inventory.

Module Courses in Ecolological, Economic and Anthropological Background in Resilience and Adaptation:  These 1 credit background courses provide fundamental disciplinary perspectives; make students conversant in a discipline in which they have little-to-no-experience; build a common vocabulary and frameworks for interdiscipoinary sustainability science.  Each student's enrollment in the courses depends on his or her background training. The following faculty teach this course:

Economics module Mark Herrmann, Dean of the School of Management and Professor of Economics

Ecological module: TBA

Anthropology module: Patrick Plattet,Assistant Professor, Anthropology