Education for Sustainability, ADV CERT (E020)
(16 credits)
Note: All of the courses in this program may be applied to the M.Ed. program in Educational Studies. Neither the M.Ed. program nor this Certificate of Advanced Study program leads to New York State classroom teaching certification.
This program is for those who wish to become leaders for a sustainable future. Utilizing emerging, critical, place, and problem-based educational theories combined with the power of thinking and working across traditional discipline boundaries, this program seeks to increase the knowledge and skills necessary for students to become agents of change within their schools, organizations, communities and institutions.
When they have completed this program, students will be able to:
- Define a vision for a sustainable future that includes changes that need to be made to achieve this vision, and articulate a rationale for the role of education and educators in achieving the vision.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnectedness of significant changes occurring with and among local to global ecological, economic and social systems.
- Evaluate natural and human systems for sustainability by
- applying basic principles and tools of systems seeking and testing methodologies,
- employing trans-disciplinary methods of inquiry and analysis
- using geographic understanding to describe and analyze ecological, economic, social and historical relationships.
- Develop and present a proposal for action to address a change that needs to be achieved for a sustainable future.
- Implement and evaluate the proposal.
Program Requirements:
Entry Level
Intermediate Level
Capstone Level
| EDU 5536 | Field-Based Educational Research | 4 |