ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION IN WISCONSIN POLICY AND PRACTICE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze environmental and sustainability thought in Wisconsin, the U.S., and internationally, with a focus on how and why ecological awareness has evolved over time in different cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and summarize educational policies and practices relating to climate and sustainability through lenses of social equity and inclusion, as well as how they can be made age- and developmentally-appropriate for various grade cohorts. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge of local community nonprofits, social service organizations, and schools that are working to develop "social sustainability" in school-based and community programs. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate knowledge of campus-based volunteer and registered student organizations that are seeking to advance various forms of sustainability on and off campus at the University of Wisconsin. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate knowledge about how these kinds of school, after-school and out-of-school programs, along with nature and outdoor education, can foster greater awareness of environmental concepts and sustainability practices. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze environmental and sustainability thought in Wisconsin, the U.S., and internationally, with a focus on how and why ecological awareness has evolved over time in different cultural contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and summarize educational policies and practices relating to climate and sustainability through lenses of social equity and inclusion, as well as how they can be made age- and developmentally-appropriate for various grade cohorts. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate knowledge of local community nonprofits, social service organizations, and schools that are working to develop "social sustainability" in school-based and community programs. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Demonstrate knowledge of campus-based volunteer and registered student organizations that are seeking to advance various forms of sustainability on and off campus at the University of Wisconsin. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate knowledge about how these kinds of school, after-school and out-of-school programs, along with nature and outdoor education, can foster greater awareness of environmental concepts and sustainability practices. Audience: Undergraduate