How can the social justice aspects of the climate crisis (climate justice) be tied to the content and skills that you teach in your course to create a coherent climate justice lesson? The connections are not always clear and obvious. As busy faculty, you are likely short on the time needed to do the research to make the connections and search for resources for students to bring into their courses.
This year-long discipline-specific FLC is an opportunity to do just that:
(1) do research to make the connections and
(2) compile student resources that can be used in courses in your discipline.
The Climate Justice Across the Curriculum Project is seeking teams of two to four faculty from up to four different disciplines to do this work in a structured way during group working sessions. The end goal is to create a discipline-specific webpage on BC’s Climate Justice website (www.bellevuecollege.edu/climatejustice), which is not yet live and still in development.
The goal of the webpage is to provide resources to other faculty who want to teach climate justice in your discipline, both within and beyond our college. The webpage should (1) describe what is crucial for your discipline to teach about climate justice (What are the central connections between your discipline and climate justice?), (2) share ideas for civic engagement that could be done in courses within your discipline, and (3) provide a classroom resource page with readings, videos, documentaries and other curriculum materials that can be used by a faculty person in your discipline that is new to climate justice and civic engagement.
The year-long learning community will start with a potluck-style dinner, for four or five hours on a Friday late afternoon/evening in October. The purpose of the first meeting is to build community, get to know each other, have a seminar-style discussion about a reading focused on climate justice and civic engagement done prior to the retreat, get oriented to the BC climate justice website, and start drafting a work plan for your group. We hope to bring together a mix of faculty who are comfortable with this type of work and those who are new to it. There will be an interdisciplinary component to these learning communities as well, where faculty will observe the lesson of another faculty person in the FLC who teaches in another discipline.
Please fill out the registration form if you are interested. Make sure at least one other interested faculty person from your program also registers. Teams will be selected by the group that advises the Climate Justice Across the Curriculum project based on the current needs of the project.
Meeting times will be scheduled after teams are formed
30 PD Hours | $1000 stipend
Led by Sonya Doucette (sonya.doucette@bellevuecollege.edu)
Last Updated November 23, 2022