Integrated traditional and applied education in a public US university: exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities

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• 作者：Elizabeth Shay ; Susan Caplow
• 关键词：Sustainability ; Curriculum development ; Integrated curriculum ; Applied learning
• 刊名：Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：121-126
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• 刊物主题：Environment, general; Sustainable Development;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：2190-6491
• 卷排序：7

文摘

The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at a large public university, which serves students from departments such as city and regional planning, environmental studies and sciences, geography, and many more—as well as professional schools such as public health, journalism, business, and government. We describe an integrated suite of sustainability offerings that link available academic opportunities laterally across campus to touch more students at once, as well as longitudinally to provide individual students with a progressively more focused academic experience. Finally, we share lessons learned from the development of new curriculum over the last decade. The curriculum described here illuminates the larger discussion on emerging models for educating university students in planning for prosperous, stable, efficient, and just cities and regions.