The issue of sustainability is current and lively!
Studying it engages students in higher order thinking skills and
links their studies with the real world of headlines and personal
choices.
Students gain geographic skills, especially about
human-environment relationships.
Writing and small group activities help students see broader
connections among topics, analyze complex issues, respond to
questions comprehensively, distinguish among facts, opinions
and values, and support their ideas with facts.
Topics include comparative economic development, energy
and technology, impact of world religions on environmental
ethics, the impact of culture on economic development
practices, the environment as both resource base and
biosphere, historical and contemporary problem solving.
