Learn how you can create a sustainable future.
Sustainability is often defined as the ability to provide for the needs of the world's current population without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for their needs. This course reviews the needs of the current population and future generations, trends that affect our ability to provide for those needs, addressing climate change, and possible solutions that are environmentally, economically, and socially acceptable. We will spend much of the time looking at examples of sustainability on campus in both research and facilities.
Students will learn about local, regional, national, and international efforts at sustainability through brief lectures in the morning, guided research into examples of sustainability, and afternoon field trips to locations on and off campus to see sustainability in action.
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Experiential Learning
The program combines expert lectures with active learning. You'll gain hands-on experience with the latest efforts in sustainability and participate in the following activities:
- Brief discussions about local, regional, national, and international efforts at sustainability
- Guided research into examples of sustainability
- Afternoon field trips to locations on and off campus to see sustainability in action.
Typical days will be a brief lecture in the morning, followed by student research to learn more about the ideas and examples introduced. After lunch, students will be taken on field trips on and off campus to see sustainability in action.
Lead Instructor
David Taylor, PhD
David Taylor is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Environmental Humanities track in Sustainability. His writing crosses disciplinary boundaries and genres—poetry, creative nonfiction, scholarship, and science writing; however, at the core of his work always is a concern for environmental sustainability and community. David is the author and editor of eight books. He is Lead Editor and Contributor, An Island in the Stream: Ecocritical and Literary Responses to Cuban Environmental Culture (Lexington Books, 2019). In addition to the above, David has traveled to Cuba for over 10 years collaborating with writers, artists, and scholars at Consejo Nacional Artes Escenicas (CNAE), Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Union Nacional Escritores y Artistas Consejo (UNEAC)–Cuban national writers’ organization, and the Department of Geography at the University of Havana.
