The mission of SUS is to provide interdisciplinary face-to-face graduate
education on the complex issues of sustainability and social justice,
encouraging students to pursue important social and environmental issues
concurrently. The program seeks to educate students as critical
thinkers for community leadership and to enable its graduates to
contribute to the well being of communities. At the same time, the
program aims to push students intellectually, looking to produce
thoughtful and critical graduates who can think theoretically. The
curriculum is student-centered; students bring their intellectual,
ethical, and practical concerns to bear on their particular academic
inquiry. These skills are sharpened in collective collaborations between
students and different communities through praxis.