Students want a wide variety of courses to choose from - they enter these majors with very different goals. Industry is looking for people with specific skills, not interdisciplinary types. It is often easier to learn to be interdisciplinary on the job than to acquire lacking skills on the job. Participants described initiatives at their respective campuses, highlighting particular accomplishments as well as lessons learned in attempts to marshall support for sustainability and institutionalize it. Representatives from state and private institutions, and large and small campuses made for a diverse sample of environmental programs and the structures that support them.
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Participants asked questions for the group to consider. All courses that are not science are not necessary humanities. Humanities courses examine human values in courses like history and literature. Communications is a skills course. We acknowledge the usefulness of a full palette of multi-disciplinary courses.