Building Sustainable Communities

This course will allow students to develop critical thinking skills in a real world environment. Students will have an opportunity to refine these skills by addressing concrete community concerns through hands-on problem solving and the application of a science-based approach to generate evidence-based sustainable solutions. This course is designed to draw students into investigating the sustainability of the HPU and local Hawaii communities and, in perceiving the problems these communities face, to work with them to develop sustainable solutions for their concerns.