SUSTAINABILITY-FOCUSED OFF-CAMPUS SEMESTER AT ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY (SPRING 2015)
The Sustainability Semester is designed to give the next generation of thinkers and leaders the tools to tackle the globally important challenges of sustainability. During the Sustainability Semester, students delve into complex and challenging environmental issues through intensive study and hands-on experience. Students will leave the program ready to engage with the most serious challenges facing their communities and the world. They will be prepared to create sustainable solutions by employing both theoretical and practical knowledge from a range of academic disciplines and cultures. In addition, they will have a unique skill set that will allow them to contribute to and build communities as engaged, responsible and ethically reflective citizens.
Students take 4.5-courses: Going Localvore, Agroecology, Theory and Practice of Sustainability, Sustainability Studies (core course) and Sustainability In Action (skills-based) taught by faculty from a variety of disciplines. The courses offered examine the ecological, political, social and economic aspects of sustainability, but the core course is structured specifically to unite both the residential and experiential aspects of the semester program and includes a service-learning component as well as a two-week urban sustainability intensive in Boston, MA. Together the classes address environmental justice, alternative transportation, food production/processing/access, community planning/design, green building, renewable energy systems, art and ecology.
Interested students should contact the Director of the Program, Cathy Shrady, for a copy of the application. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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