Dear colleagues, A few weeks back I sent out a request for syllabi related to a course I'm developing on "changing environmental policies". I've compiled the responses, and developed a draft syllabus, which you can read here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqwlqpus22armrt/SkZ6Uocin_ I won't be teaching the class until next fall, so if you have feedback, I'll be happy to talk more! -Forrest On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Forrest Fleischman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gep-ed/dd5guEoRnco/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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.
