| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 45.22 |
| Liaison | Mei May |
| Submission Date | Nov. 27, 2019 |
University of Texas at San Antonio
AC-3: Undergraduate Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.00 / 3.00 |
Mei L
May Director Office of Sustainability Sustainability |
Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused major, degree, or certificate program for undergraduate students?:
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COLFA
The primary missions of the Programs are to introduce the substance and methods of modern academic geography and Sustainability to UTSA students, and to involve them in the local, regional, and international community. The geography faculty are sensitive to providing our majors with the foundations necessary to succeed in related careers and competitive graduate programs, and to offer a curriculum that contributes meaningfully to out students’ appreciation of an increasingly complex, divided, and shrinking world.Our four tenure track faculty members’ expertise in cultural and social geography and GIS offers students the opportunity to explore geography’s concepts and relevance in such diverse regions as North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, we regularly hire adjunct professors specializing in physical and environmental geography, in addition to GIS and urban geography, to give our B.A. students a full range of topical courses.
https://catalog.utsa.edu/undergraduate/liberalfinearts/politicalscienceandgeography/#globalaffairs
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Global Affairs can be defined in two ways. First, Global Affairs is a specialization within Political Science dedicated explicitly to the study of world politics. While situated within Political Science, however, Global Affairs is an interdisciplinary field that borrows from economics, sociology, geography cultural and legal studies, public administration, communications, and criminal justice. Second, and more substantively, global affairs captures and describes the totality of political dynamics and interactions between a wide range of actors (states and non-states) occurring across borders in an interconnected and interdependent world. It explores the different activities and relationships between actors and the institutions, rules, and processes that are created to maintain order.
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M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning
The 48 hour Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning (M.S. URP) is designed to prepare students for leadership roles and careers in the public and private sectors of planning and designing communities and regions. The program has a strong focus on land use planning; design; policy; and economic, environmental, and cultural issues that shape urban and regional land development patterns in terms of infrastructure, housing, and open space systems. Emphasis is placed on developing research capabilities and graphic skills needed in planning. The degree program’s primary focus is to prepare students to become practitioners in the planning profession. The MSURP is taught with support of the Department of Public Administration in the College of Public Policy.
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