EDU.5568 Earth Citizenship
This course focuses on creating Earth citizens who have the values, skills and knowledge necessary for contributing to a sustainable future. Students will actively engage with driving questions about the foundation they need, the kind of citizen they should be, and the understandings and capabilities they should have for contributing to sustainability. Course readings, activities, discussions and projects facilitate students' exploration and acquisition of wellness as the foundation and aspiration of sustainability, global citizenship, biosphere custodianship, change agency, world viewing, systems seeking and futures thinking. And finally, students will examine the ways in life is a function of ecosystems, society is a part of the biosphere constrained by limits and humans belong to and have responsibilities within local, national and global communities.