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Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.

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500 level courses (12)
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SUST-5000Y

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Perspectives on Sustainability

This course explores the roots of the concept and practice of sustainability, its role in the modern organization-driven economy, the way that we construct and communicate about the problems and potential solutions inherent to sustainability, and the theories of social innovation that are required to implement sustainability-oriented solutions.

SUST-5002H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Research Methods

This course will cover two related themes: an overview of the theory and practice of selected research methodologies; and the ethical considerations of research within Canadian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Sustainability Studies.

Cross-listed: CSID-5002H

SUST-5010H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Student Faculty & Community Colloquium 1

The Student Faculty and Community Colloquium brings together students, community members, faculty, visiting scholars and experts for an intensive exploration of relevant historical, theoretical and practical issues. The Colloquium examines how we, as a global human community, can foster social equity, stimulate our economy, and still limit our impact on the natural environment. Students are expected to attend the colloquium in both the first and second years of their program. SUST-5010H is for students in the first year of the program.

SUST-5020H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Student Faculty & Community Colloquium 2

The Student Faculty and Community Colloquium brings together students, community members, faculty, visiting scholars and experts for an intensive exploration of relevant historical, theoretical and practical issues. The Colloquium examines how we, as a global human community, can foster social equity, stimulate our economy, and still limit our impact on the natural environment. Students are expected to attend the colloquium in both the first and second years of their program. SUST-5020H is for students in the second year of the program.

SUST-5171H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Indigenous Settler Relations

Cross-listed: CSID-5171H, CAST-6171H, HIST-5171H

SUST-5401H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Environment & Place

This course explores human-environmental relationships from a variety of perspectives using both academic and public policy debates as source material. Selected topics will draw from historical and political ecology, environmental protection and activism, heritage law, land tenure and land rights, tourism, public parks, and notions of wilderness in Canadian identities.

Cross-listed: CSID-5401H, CAST-6201H, CUST-5512H

SUST-5450H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Perspectives and Practices for Organizational Sustainability

This course introduces students to the "triple bottom line" approach by defining sustainability in organization as balanced progress towards economic performance, social justice, and environmental quality. This course examines strategic approaches and methods of the sustainability paradigm and the way they are framed and implemented across multiple sectors.

SUST-5600H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

This course introduces students to essential skills, analytical tools, perspectives, and experiences that prepare them for the challenges of entrepreneurship. It addresses content and process questions as well as with formulation and implementation issues that relate to conceptualizing, developing, and managing a successful new enterprise.

SUST-5700Y

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Internship & Leadership in Sustainabilit

The course consists of learning sessions designed to enhance students' individual professional development and provide opportunities for reflection during field-based learning experiences. It provides students in the 'Internship' and 'Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management' stream of the Sustainability Studies Program an opportunity to compliment and build on their ongoing experiential learning during their full-time internship or field placement. It aims to develop students' capacity for reflective practice by identifying strategies to question attitudes, thought processes, values, assumptions, prejudices and habitual actions, to strive to understand our complex roles in relation to others in organizational settings.

SUST-5800H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Major Research Paper

SUST-5900Y

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Reading Course

A course designed to provide opportunities for intensive study by an individual student in a particular area of study. Approval of the relevant instructor and the Program Director is required.

SUST-5901H

Offered:

  • Peterborough
Reading Course

A course designed to provide opportunities for intensive study by an individual student in a particular area of study. Approval of the relevant instructor and the Program Director is required.

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