可持续发展课程引进

课程开设背景
世界经济的发展一直是一资源和环境做代价的，现在人类已经清楚的看到这个发展模式的代价。现有模式必将遇到瓶颈不可持续。可持续型科学是什么呢：包括很多方面：宏观的从政府战略计划和城市设计、到微观的企业运行和产品设计等等。从商业计划、设计、工程、制造和运行物流的每一个环节都对环境资源考虑，减少对环境和资源的影响。
发达国家政府和跨国公司都急需这类人才。这就是为什么美国著名大学从几年前兴起了可持续性科学类专业。

未来发展趋势
GM 需要设计全电动汽车 (需要诸方面人才：如商务计划，广告，材料，造价控制，机械工程，电子工程，化学工程，制造工程等等）
 Walmart 需要设计最佳物流路线
Intel需要设计新的制造工艺减少原材料消耗
Duke Energy需要设计智能电网
Google，Facebook 需要低电能的服务器
各大跨国公司都成立了“可持续性”发展部，都需要诸多商业、人文、工程、科学都有背景、尤其对可持续性发展有理解的综合人才。为了满足社会需求，美国领先大学开开始了这个专业和课程

课程介绍 –福尔曼的课程
Students who wish to earn the B.S. degree in sustainability science required to complete all of the following courses:
EES-112 Environmental Science
SUS-120 Principles of Sustainability Science
MTH-141 or MTH-150
SUS-240 Human Systems
SUS-241 Social Systems
SUS-242 Dynamic Systems Modeling
SUS-472 Research and Analysis
MTH-150 (or equivalent)
at least five additional courses from the list below with no more than three courses selected from any one group:
Human Security
ECN 237 Economics of Poverty and Inequality
ENG 416 Environmental Writing
GGY 230 Principles of Geography
HSC 304 Community and Environmental Health
PHL 303 Environmental Ethics
PHL 304 Ethics of Globalization
PVS 101 Introduction to Poverty Studies
PSC 214 Environmental Law and Conservation Advocacy
REL 362 Religion and the Environment
SOC 222 Population and the Environment
参与大学- Furman University
Nationally ranked #51 in liberal and arts Colleges
SAT not required, but the average students entering Furman has SAT of 2000
TOEFL 100
Furman University is a co-founder of this initiative, and is working with us in preparatory courses and joint student 
projects
参与大学- Clark University
Nationally Ranked University #72
Minimum TOEFL of 80
SAT optional 
Clark University is working with us on joint student projects
参与大学- Arizona State University
Ranked #129 National University
参与大学- Umass Amherst
Ranked #72 National University
We will be working with Umass Amherst on joint student projects
参与大学-Boston University
Ranked #42 National University
We will be working with BU on joint student projects
申请
Early application
Students are encouraged to apply to sustainability Science major but can apply to any major
We’ll interview each student and recommend the student to our partner schools/programs
we work directly with the department faculty and admission staff