Using Sustainability to Create New Course Content

Posted by on May 17, 2010

Registration now open!

Using Sustainability to Create New Course Content: A Curriculum Development Institute for Faculty in All Disciplines

May 24, 2010 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

Sustainability provides educators and trainers with new opportunities to connect their disciplinary subject matter with that of other disciplines. Topics such as scarcity, conflict, democracy, health, human rights, poverty, economic development, social justice, religious beliefs, cultural preservation, food security, energy independence, biodiversity, ethics, ecosystems, corporate social responsibility and many more can be systemically related to each other using sustainability as a unifying theme. Developing such inter and trans-disciplinary linkages is often done best through dialogue with other faculty and experts.

This workshop is designed for educators who are looking for new and creative ways to weave sustainability into their curricula or to develop a new course with a sustainability focus. Participants will also work with each other to explore and identify sustainability knowledge and skills as they relate to and across different disciplines. They will also develop student learning outcomes that are important in teaching about sustainability and discuss ways student sustainability learning could be assessed.

More information and on-line registration is available at:   http://www.vtcampuscompact.org/2010/sustainability_institute.htm

For questions about registration, please contact BonnieRita Hearthstone at bhearths@middlebury.edu or (802) 443-2506.  For additional  information, please contact Cheryl Whitney Lower at clower@middlebury.edu or (802) 443-2507.

Sponsored by Vermont Campus Compact and NRG Systems.