Two Sustainability Course Development Fellowships have been awarded to Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington faculty by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Office of Sustainability.
This year's recipients are:
- James Farmer, assistant professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, School of Public Health, "Planting the Seed: Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture."
- Rasul Mowatt, assistant professor, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, School of Public Health, "Foundations of Leisure."
Farmer's proposal will act as an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainable farming. It will be open to undergraduates and utilize service learning and field lab techniques.
Mowatt's proposal will aim to locate definitions of sustainability, public health and environmental justice; situate understanding of field experiences that reveal cases of environmental harm, health disparities and social exclusion; and promote activities that reflect a base knowledge of sustainability.
The fellowship represents an instructional component of a broad-based initiative originally developed by the Indiana University Task Force on Campus Sustainability and now supported by the Office of the Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Office of Sustainability. It is intended to provide support for individual faculty members interested in expanding their teaching into topics related to sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Fellowships were awarded for the first time in 2009. Course development of innovative approaches to sustainability instruction of complex, interdisciplinary topics at both undergraduate and graduate levels of instruction are supported. Service-learning courses and those that involve application of principles of sustainability to the IU Bloomington campus are of particular interest.
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