Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability

这个为期三年的项目的目的是开发一门课程，包括六门新课程，导致加州大学欧文分校全球可持续发展的跨学科辅修课程。这些新课程将整合并解决跨学科的全球可持续发展主题，并将由UCI五个学院的教师开发和教授：生物科学、工程科学、物理科学、社会科学和社会生态学。辅修课程将对所有学科的本科生开放，并将在大二开始，包括三门核心课程。第一门课程，物理环境，将涉及地球的起源，海洋，陆地和大气的动态，以及人类使用对物理世界的影响。第二门课程“生物环境”将研究生物多样性和生态系统的演变，以及人类入侵、开发和污染对生物多样性的影响。第三门课程，人，文化和环境可持续性，将涵盖人口增长的原因和后果，自然资源管理，环境法和环境伦理。在大三，学生将从一系列相关学科的选修课程中进行选择。在大四，学生将参加一系列研讨会，完成一个研究项目，并在本科生研究研讨会上展示他们的项目成果。非盟课程将包括利用加州大学自然保护区系统和其他地点的相关实地经验。整个课程结构和建议的课程已经由适当的UCI学术参议院委员会批准。持续的评估将包括形成性评估和？使用来自学生调查和访谈的数据组成部分。电子通信将用于教师和学生之间的数据采集，用于学生、教师和外部之间的通信，以及用于向其他机构传播该计划。其他的传播活动将包括在全国环境教育工作者会议上的发言、一篇期刊文章和客座讲师所作的讨论会录像带。

The purpose of this three-year project is the development of a curriculum including six new courses, leading to an Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability at the University of California, Irvine. The new courses will integrate and address global sustainability themes across disciplines and will be developed and taught by faculty from five of UCI's schools: Biological Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Social Ecology. The Minor will be open to undergraduates in all disciplines and will begin in the sophomore year with a sequence of three core courses. The first course, The Physical Environment, will deal with the origin of the earth, the dynamics of its oceans, lands and atmosphere, and the impact of human uses on the physical world. The second course, The Biological Environment, will examine the evolution of biological diversity and ecosystems, and the impacts on biological diversity of human encroachment, exploitation, and pollution. The third course, People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability, will cover the causes and consequences of human population growth, natural resource management, environmental law, and environmental ethics. In the junior year, students will select from a series of elective courses in relevant disciplines. In the senior year students will attend a seminar series, complete a research project, and present the results of their projects at an undergraduate research symposium. AU courses will include relevant field experiences making use of UC's Natural Reserve System as well as other sites. The overall curricular structure and proposed courses have already been approved by appropriate UCI Academic Senate committees. Ongoing evaluation will consist of formative and ?tive components using data from student surveys and interviews. Electronic communication will be used for data acquisition by faculty and students, for communication between students, faculty and the outside, and for dissemination of the pro gram to other institutions. Additional dissemination activities will include presentations at national conferences for environmental educators, a journal article, and videotapes of seminars given by guest lecturers.