ASLE syllabi database
The ASLE Syllabi database for courses in the environmental humanities and sciences. You can search by keyword, which will bring up entries that match your criteria in either title or body of syllabus. You can also search by department by choosing from the pulldown list. New submissions for courses taught or in progress are welcome. Website: http://www.asle.org/site/resources/syllabi/?keyWords=&department=1&action=search&s.x=62&s.y=6
A sampling of available syllabi at this site:
· American Literature and the Environment
· Adv Comp: Environmental Lit.
· Environmental Literature
· Environmental Literature and Media, 1980 – present
· Techniques of Interpretation: Composition
From AASHE and the WA Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Ideas for integrating concepts and practices of sustainability into a variety of undergraduate classes.
Ecological sciences and the humanities must be coupled in the sustainability enterprise. Scientists look at physical processes, and social scientists examine sociological processes. Humanists focus on ideas, values, language, culture, and history. To sustain our human communities, our natural resources, and our rich global biological and cultural heritage, we must explore humans’ beliefs about their relationship to nature and integrate knowledge and policy across the disciplines in order to understand, inform, and direct human development toward a responsible, sustainable future. (ASU)
Explore more links between the Humanities and Sustainability through the document below.
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On this page you will find data sets, example worksheets, and the background information you need to incorporate a sustainability theme into your Calculus I course (feel free to use anything here for other courses as well). There are also links for further reading for you or your students.
BELL teaching cases explore sustainability related business challenges and capture business decisions that identify environmental challenges as business development opportunities. The case studies include: abstracts, full case studies and teaching notes.
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