This active learning style class will guide you through the process of working with a community group to design, carry out, and complete a project that advances a community priority or addresses a community challenge related to natural environment and its conservation, use, and improvement as well as global futures. Students will learn how to build relationships, understand community priorities, design projects that advance those priorities, organize and carry out project work, share the results broadly, and connect the work to personal and career goals. The class has four elements: 1) online materials that introduce key ideas and skills, 2) in-person workshops students work in teams, and individual homework, including 3) working on the project and 4) reflecting on the project.
Prerequisites
None.
1. Build strong, productive working relationships with leaders of community-based organizations and their peers in the class.
2. Work with a community to articulate global futures outcomes of value to the community.
3. Design a project that delivers those outcomes within a specified time period.
4. Plan and implement a project.
5. Ensure project outcomes are community owned.
6. Share the project with a broader group of community members in a way that generates additional interest.
7. Describe the skills and dispositions learned and how those skills and dispositions support professional and personal goals.