Pedagogy
Here you will find a variety of teaching materials including syllabi and books.
Toolkit's Syllabi
Syllabus for POSC140 - The Coronavirus Pandemic and Global Sustainability
This course was created by Dr. Tan and Anna Ogan. This course explores the Covid-19 pandemic, its sudden outbreak in late 2019, and emerging trends throughout the world. The course will also examine societal and global challenges raised by COVID-19 outbreak from multidisciplinary perspectives, using some of the latest insights from political science, economics, psychology, sociology, environmental sciences, medicine, and public health.
Online Syllabi
EME 8-7 Syllabus - Welcome to Technologies for Sustainability Systems
This course develops a great understanding of sustainability and covers a wide range of topics that influence sustainability. This course primarily focuses on developing technology in which methods, design, and products meet all three pillars to be sustainable. There are three grades in this course: Discussion forums (20%), written assignments (30%), and individual course project (50%).
Syllabus: Envisioning Sustainable Communities
This course integrates the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to sustainability. This syllabus directly uses the UN document on suitability’s definition of sustainable development. There are no tests for this course, instead there are papers, projects, and presentations.
ENV 151 Introduction to Sustainability
This is an introductory course to the interdisciplinary field of sustainability and is taught at the University of DePaul. The goal of this course is for the students to understand the main challenges behind global sustainability and their solutions while using an integrated social-ecological systems approach.
Books
Mlodinow, Leonard. Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain’s Ability to Embrace Change.
In this book, Mlodinow analyses the process of thought with an emphasis on how the human mind deals with change. In order to have a positive mindset adapting to change is a large part of it. He says that many people believe they are not capable of being innovative and creative; they believe this quality is only for a selected few and they cannot be one of them. However, in this book Mlodinow says that idea is wrong. He works to prove that anyone’s mind can be involved in “elastic thinking”. The phrase “elastic thinking” refers to thinking outside of how we normally do and changing the way our brains think about problems and life.
Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
In the book Mindset, Carol Dweck describes mindset as an attitude or outlook on life or a situation. She establishes the idea that it does not just influence how one performs in school or work, it also influences how people develop relationships and their view of the world around them. She also focuses on the idea of failure and the role it plays in really testing one’s mindset.