Dear Colleagues, I am developing a new course, and I'm looking for examples of other courses that have similar goals.
The goal of my new course is for students to develop skills & plans for changing environmental policies. This builds on the course I teach, in which students learn how to analyze environmental policies and policy processes from a variety of perspectives, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students whose goals include not only understanding and analyzing, but also implementing change. I was inspired to develop this course in part due to my own very positive experience as an undergraduate student activist, and also through seeing various student developed projects make a difference in university communities (for example: http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/<http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/about/>) and globally (eg I've heard that 350.org grew out of a class project at Middlebury). The course will be project-based: students will work in teams to develop proposals to change environmental policies, will implement part of these proposals, and will critique their own and other groups' work. I expect that the students will do background readings on a variety of topics including (but not limited to) the use of litigation, lobbying, protest, community-organizing, coalition-building, and various other forms of direct and indirect action as applied to changing environmental policy - the focus would probably be on local scale change, but might include both domestic (US) and international policy issues. Although my background is in public policy, it seems that the research tradition I am a part of has not focused on these questions, and my reviews of syllabi that I am aware of has not yielded any similar courses. I would be interested in finding syllabi with similar goals, and/or suggested readings. I will happily collect & compile responses off-list and send out a compilation. -Forrest -- Forrest Fleischman Assistant Professor Department of Ecosystem Science & Management; Texas Agrilife Research Texas A&M University http://essm.tamu.edu/people/faculty/fleischman-forrest-d/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
