Environmental Impacts of Human Energy Use

3 units

Students will meet in an active-learning classroom (such as January 110 or McDonnell 362) and work in groups of up to six people at a table. Some projects will be short units, started and completed within a single class period. Other projects will be longer, extending over several class periods. The projects will include debates, analyses of recent journal articles and other primary sources, energy literacy assessments, the creation of educational modules, and quantitative problem-based learning. Classes will include some amount of lecturing, in measured doses, particularly from guest lecturers.