{"id":6100,"date":"2014-07-29T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2014-07-29T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:00:29","slug":"new-course-offering-social-dimensions-of-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/07\/29\/new-course-offering-social-dimensions-of-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"New course offering: Social Dimensions of Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/Dimensions-sustainability-course.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6112\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/07\/Dimensions-sustainability-course-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Dimensions sustainability course\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>A new online course will be offered during Fall 2014 for students in natural resources, environmental sciences, social sciences, and students interested in the Sustainability Double-Degree.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with a discussion on the importance of a social science perspective for study of sustainability issues, the course will compliment the ecological aspects of sustainability by exposing students to its social dimensions. The course will briefly examine the various theoretical and methodological tools for studying sustainability, with the remainder centering on the interrelationship between the environmental, social, economic and political structures associated with sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Course work will include online discussion board assignments, writing assignments, and a capstone project culminating in a critique of an organization\u2019s social sustainability campaign message (including corporate social responsibility and social justice messages).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:lcramer@oregonstate.edu\">Lori Cramer<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jacobsd@onid.oregonstate.edu\">Derric Jacobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Course Details:<\/h3>\n<p>SOC399 (section 400): Social Dimensions of Sustainability<\/p>\n<p>Credits: 4<\/p>\n<p>CRN: 21086<\/p>\n<p>Instructor: <a href=\"mailto:jacobsd@onid.oregonstate.edu\">Derric Jacobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prerequisites: SOC204 (or permission of the instructor)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new online course will be offered during Fall 2014 for students in natural resources, environmental sciences, social sciences, and students interested in the Sustainability Double-Degree. Beginning with a discussion on the importance of a social science perspective for study of sustainability issues, the course will compliment the ecological aspects of sustainability by exposing students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292108,1292116],"tags":[1636,1306,1206,608247],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campus-sustainability","tag-opportunity","tag-student","tag-sustainability","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}