Sustainable Community Development Initiative

Sustainability Themes

Theme 10: Ethics

Theme Goals

  1. To help students understand the public consequences of their acts.
  2. To help students appreciate the reciprocal obligations of their roles in society.
  3. To help students recognize the ways in which behaviors are rationalized.

 

Theme 11: Earth and Environment

Theme Goals

  1. Human views of and influences on the environment.
  2. Environmental influences on humans, their cultures, and their endeavors.

 

Theme 15: Global Change: Integration and Fragmentation

Theme Goals

  1. To understand how different influences and trends shape countries and peoples around the world.
  2. To analyze the dynamic tension between integration and fragmentation.

 

Theme 16: Health, Illness, and Healing

Theme Goals

  1. To analyze health, health maintenance, illness or healing across societies/ cultures.
  2. To examine the dynamic interplay between human health, biology, and culture over time.
  3. To develop a critical understanding of healing practices and health care delivery across cultures.

 

Theme 17: Cities

Theme Goals

  1. Students will understand the key elements of urbanization process in a global context.
  2. Students will comprehend how economic forces influence and shape cities.
  3. Students will understand how cities are socially and politically organized and how that organization affects the well being of urban residents.

For more detailed information, see the General Education Guide for 2010-2011.