The Population Health Initiative and the Office of Global Affairs are coordinating this seminar course on the UN SDGs. This seminar is open to all majors and relevant to all students who have an interest in sustainability. Would you mind sharing this course information with students in your major? Please find the course information below and flyer attached. Thank you very much!
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Global Goals, Local Actions
- Course Number: GEN ST 297A
- SLN: 14914
- Time: Tuesday // 1:30-2:20 PM
- Location: CDH 139
- Grading: Credit/No Credit
- 1 credit undergraduate seminar
- https://www.washington.edu/globalaffairs/achieving-the-un-sdgs-course/
The Office of Global Affairs and Population Health Initiative are partnering to offer a one credit General Studies course that will introduce students to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, research at the University of Washington aligned with those goals, and the role the goals play in improving population health, societies, and the environment, both locally and globally.
This seminar will invite experts and scholars from the University of Washington and the Seattle region to address each of the 17 SDGs. Whereas the SDGs are shared global goals, how countries and regions perform and achieve these goals all vary. Each lecture will include an overview of the selected SDGs, case studies based on speaker’s expertise, and programs in the Seattle regions that are working towards the SDGs. Through this seminar course, we aim to cultivate a sense of global citizenship among our students as well as to situate their understanding of the SDGs locally.
