Service Learning and Food Security part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Service Learning and Food Security is a two-credit course that uses practical examples, local demographics, and community connections to examine issues of food security. Students connect classroom learning with ...

An Intentional Media Diet part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
It's not just that we are what we eat, it's that we are what we consume. In the same way that the food we eat becomes our bodies, the media to which we pay attention, and the conversations in which we ...

Writing to Explore Food Systems and Food Justice part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This is a theme-based English 101 course that explores our food consumption habits and connects those habits to local and global food systems in order to understand issues of food justice personally, in our local ...

Bite Me: Consumption in U.S. Society: A Learning Community on the Ethics of Food, Clothing and Shelter Choices part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This is a 10-11 credit interdisciplinary, learning community composed of life science courses and English composition courses. The focus of the course is the ethics of food, clothing and shelter choices. We ...

Environment and Society: Science & Values part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
The course uses approaches from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to introduce the ways in which human social, political, economic, and cultural systems interact with systems in the non-human ...

Science and Sustainability: A Freshman Seminar part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Science and Sustainability is a seminar course on the scientific ideas that underlie the sustainability movement. The course is fundamental in the sense that philosophical underpinnings of science and ...

Climate Solutions: A Learning Community on Climate Science and Human Adaptations part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This program was a full-time (16 credit) learning community that focused on the scientific basis of climate change, and on a variety of strategies that societies could take to respond to climate change.

Introduction to Sustainable Practices part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This course looks critically at a diverse arena of ideas, theories and practices around sustainability. We examine these ideas, theories practices as part of larger socio-ecological systems and look at how they fit ...

Environmental Science: Citizen Action in the Global Environment part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
This special course in environmental science will explore how natural resource management has changed and developed over time. Many different socio-economic groups, institutions and NGOs continue to influence the ...

Conservation of Natural Resources: Using the Campus as a Learning Laboratory part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Courses
Conservation of Natural Resources: Using the Campus as a Learning Laboratory is a course in which we examine the interactions between humans and the rest of the natural world from an environmental science ...