Spring 2027

Education for Sustainable Communities

Examines how education addresses environmental and social sustainability challenges, exploring behavior change, community action, and the relationship between sustainability and justice.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.69 GPA, 77.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.81 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain and apply the complicated and controversial idea of sustainability

  • Articulate a clear definition of education that goes beyond schools and classrooms

  • Analyze factors that influence individuals’ decisions about sustainability-related action

  • Describe how social structure and social context shapes sustainability-related action, and describe how some factors relevant to sustainability can only be seen and changed at the community level

  • Identify educational strategies that can be used to make change at the individual and community level, and understand the advantages and limitations of different educational perspectives

  • Explain how and why some environmental projects come at the expense of poor, minoritized and otherwise vulnerable groups of people

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2 UW Guide 3

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Prerequisites

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C&ESOC/CURRIC/ENVIRST 405

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Professors

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.69 GPA, 77.5% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.81 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Ideas and strategies guiding environmental and sustainability education
  • Principles of behavior change, empowerment, community action, and social reform
  • The relationship between sustainability and justice
  • Relationship between education and advocacy within democratic ideals

Skills

  • Analyze factors influencing individual decisions about sustainability-related action
  • Describe how social structure and context shape sustainability action at community levels
  • Identify educational strategies for change at individual and community levels
  • Explain impacts of environmental projects on vulnerable populations

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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