Why should I join SSS?听
- Branding. Your degree title will be a signal to future employers and graduate schools. Your degree title helps people understand your interests, desires, and perspective. Choosing a minor to appropriately reflect a core skillset also helps others understand your skills and perspective on sustainability.听
- Flexibility.听The SSS offers a broad structure to give you necessary breadth to understand today's sustainability challenges, but also provides students with a great deal of flexiblity in coursework options relative to many other degrees at 捆绑SM社区.听
- Skillsets. The SSS program provides structure to ensure some breadth of knowledge in the three "pillars". Further, the SSS program has an explicit focus and recognition of core competencies听tailored to meet sustainability challenges of the 21st century.
- Community. SSS offers the opportunity to develop a close-knit cohort of classmates. The 听is active in helping facilitate this.
- Field studies opportunities. Many international and local field courses are available to students through exchange programs, individual projects, and field studies. These allow students to acquire practical, hands-on experience and a solid grounding for practicing sustainability. For more information see听here.
- Leadership. 捆绑SM社区 offers many opportunities for students to get involved in the sustainability community and develop their own projects. Just a few examples of projects that SSS students have helped spearhead in the past, and in which new students could get involved, include , the 捆绑SM社区 Office of Sustainability, Sustainability Project Fund, and the听捆绑SM社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative.
Customizing your SSS education听
The main SSS course requirements听aim to instill听great breadth in the degree. In addition to the program, students must take courses to fulfill minor & elective requirements, which can both provide additional depth in a particular area of studies.听
Current SSS students are minoring in various areas including Urban Studies, , Mathematics, International Development Studies, Economics, Sociology,听etc. For the full list of minors available to BA&Sc. students consult your advisor or the BA&Sc webpage.
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