Sustainability RAP
Fall 2012

Combine your personal and 
academic interests with this RAP!    

This RAP is a wonderful opportunity for students who are passionate about the environment.

When you join this RAP you will... 

  • Learn about crucial environmental challenges facing the world today and explore ways to address these challenges in your own life.  
  • Share your living-and-learning experience with other students committed to understanding environmental issues and learning about how to be involved in opportunities for change.
  • Engage with faculty leaders to discuss and identify ways to pursue your academic and/or career goals.

You hear a lot about sustainability these days, but maybe you're not really sure what it means or how it affects you-or what you can do about it...

You're interested in and/or concerned about:

  • global warming
  • the relationship between the earth and its people-
  • your own place in the global landscape...
  • popular environmental themes of Water, Air, Energy, Climate, Food and/or Sustainability

If this sounds like you, and you want to learn more about these important issues, then you definitely need to check out this RAP!   

A key component of the program is to introduce you to a broad range of environmental topics from varying perspectives. 

The unique 1-credit RAP seminar will provide students with the opportunity to:

  • Participate in lively discussions exploring sustainability issues from multiple perspectives
  • Hear about research and study opportunities from guest faculty speakers
  • Investigate topics like pollution rights and carbon trading, the economics of green industry, environmental policies...  
  • Engage in dynamic group projects, and
  • Explore the surrounding area on field trips

This RAP is available in two locations, each with a different General Education class and a slightly different focus in the seminar:
Students living in Mary Lyon Hall will enroll together in "Hunger in the Global Economy" (Res Econ 121). The focus of the seminar will include investigations into the wonderful activities related to sustainability on campus as well as in the world at large. Conversations will embrace social and economic implications of sustainable activities.

Students living together in Dwight Hall will enroll together in "The Dynamic Earth" (Geoscience 105). The focus of the seminar for this group will be drawn from the themes of Water, Air, Energy and Climate.

A background in the sciences is acceptable, though not necessary for participation in this program!

Be sure to visit the How to Join page on this website to learn about the process and important timelines you must follow to become a member of this fantastic program! 


Classes and Locations

Fall 2012

ALL Sustainability RAP students will enroll inthe following classes taught in the residential area:

"RAP Seminar" (UNIV 190R) 0ne-credit

 AND

Students living in Mary Lyon Hall in the Northeast area of campus will enroll in 

"Hunger in the  Global Economy" - RES ECON 121  Gen Ed SBG

====  OR  ====

Students living in Dwight Hall in the Northeast area of campus will enroll in:

"The Dynamic Earth" (Geoscience 105 Gen Ed PS)

All students may also enroll in one of the following classes taught on the main campus (reserved seats in these large lectures):

"Introductory Environmental Biology" -Envir Sci 101 (Gen Ed BS)

OR

"Society and the Environment" - NRC 100 (Gen Ed SI)


Spring 2013

"College Writing" - English Writing 112 - will be offered in the residential area

 

Pamela R. Marsh-Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost & Dean

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