EDUC-1007B Education and Socio-environmental complexity
This course is intended to provide students with conceptual, procedural and ethical tools to understand and analyze critically the relations between society and environment, from a holistic perspective in which the educational dimension plays a fundamental role. Along the course subject matters will be addressed from an interdisciplinary approach, encouraging students to foster socio-environmental consciousness and responsibility by looking for alternatives oriented towards the attainment of local and global sustainable development. In this regard, by the end of the course, students are expected to experiment on the different aspects of social organization and civil participation. As final activity, students shall investigate a problem and design a productive sustainable viable project focused to solve the problem and improve the standards of living of the communities involved.
Instructor
Duque Escobar Ismael
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