Graduate School of Social Work
Sustainable Development & Global Practice
Humans need an ecological understanding of their place in the natural environment to promote personal health and well-being, environmental awareness, sense community, sustainability, resilience and advocacy. In the Sustainable Development & Global Practice concentration, you will learn to initiate and sustain change in a global context, guided by the principles of human rights, global justice and sustainability.
In this concentration, courses and field education address complex social and economic development, reconciliation and restorative justice, implementation of sustainable development strategies in countries emerging from conflict, conservation of nature, and biodiversity issues to support the systemic interconnections of human-animal and ecosystem health using practice-informed environmental health and capacity-building strategies.
You'll learn to partner effectively with families, communities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutions by developing competencies in assessment, community engagement, education, health promotion, mobilization, organizing and developing strategies to reduce poverty and build capacity. You'll also learn about local and global policies and laws relevant to humane treatment of human and animals, human security, biodiversity and sustainability, land use and water use.