For Faculty
Materials for Your Classes
This section contains a list of articles, videos, and widely available on the internet that you could use directly to foster discussions on topics of sustainability or as a resource for students for research projects.
Curriculum Update Resources
This section contains resources for faculty who want to freshen their curriculum to include issues and principles related to sustainability.
- Tools for helping faculty freshen their own curricula using a multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective approach.
- National-level Associations and working-groups that gather and distribute teachable materials for Higher Education — research, articles, books, sample modules.
Definition of Green Curriculum
A co-hort of individuals drew on their own experiences and culled the educational literature on sustainability to create this definition of Green Curriculum. The working definition is a result of a years worth of talks over coffee, brainstorming sessions during committee meetings, and email-based discussions.
The Case for Green
Robert Brem (Political Science, Psychology — College of Alameda) argues that most of us already are integrating sustainability principles in our curriculum implicitly, since those principles are broad reaching. Thus, its not a big step towards explicitly stating those principles. Our curriculum be fresher and more relevant, we’ll also have more fun teaching and we’ll distinguish ourselves as a fundamentally superior college district.
Green Curriculum Committee
A district-wide, faculty-driven committee meets monthly to delve the latest news and plan for greater faculty-involvement in updating curriculum to include principles of sustainability.
