Name: Introduction to Sustainability
Brand: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.8 (821 reviews)

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This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management)....

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Oct 21, 2022

The course was comprehensive and presents deep insights to all concepts on sustainability. Thi s course really helped me in understanding the basics of sustainability in a lucid manner.

Mar 5, 2021

Fantastic course and a great lecturer. Highly recommend it. This topic should be studied by many and I encourage people to explore it. There is so much that can be learnt in this course.

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By Vivek K S

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Sep 17, 2025

The course content requires revision. Several articles and video links are outdated and no longer functional. Additionally, grading issues in modules need to be addressed. The delivery of the course is overly simplistic, and the language tone is dull. Furthermore, the design of grading questions appears to follow outdated university patterns, which is illogical. Therefore, the entire course necessitates an overhaul and improved delivery. Clear questions should be posed in simple and concise language to make the course interesting and impactful.