| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.49 |
| Liaison | Lisa Kilgore |
| Submission Date | April 28, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Cornell University
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Mark
Lawrence Communications Mgr ACSF |
Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution, including how each program addresses the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability:
Cornell University offers several sustainability- focused, immersive educational study programs locally and all over the world.
For example, AguaClara is an engineering team at Cornell dedicated to creating high-reliability, low-cost solutions to global water problem. AguaClara provides students with hands-on experience in the research, design, implementation, and promotion of small-scale, ecologically and economically sustainable technologies for drinking water treatment systems that can operate without an external power source and be maintained by rural communities in the Global South. Water treatment plants built using AguaClara technologies currently provide clean water to approximately 50,000 people. In 2006 Agua Para el Pueblo began constructing the first AguaClara Plant in Ojojona, Honduras. In 2012, AguaClara began working on projects to improve the lives of villagers in remote parts of India (http://aguaclara.cee.cornell.edu/).
Cornell also offers the following immersive service-learning courses, among others:
- ALS 2000: Leadership for Sustainability
- BIOEE 3611: Field Ecology
- COML 2021: Humans and Climate Change
- CRP 3072/5072: Land Use, Environmental Planning, and Urban Design Workshop
- CRP 5460: Introduction to Community and Environment Dispute Resolution
- CRP 5660: Planning and Preservation Practice: Urban Field Trip
- DSOC 3400: Agriculture, Food, Sustainability, and Social Justice
- DSOC 4500: Bridges to Community (community development in Nicaragua)
- ENTOM 3350: Naturalist Outreach Practicum
- HADM 6500: Sustainable Development
- LAW 7872: Land Use, Development, and Natural Resource Protection Clinic
- PLHRT 2400: Exploring the Small Farm Dream
- PLHRT 3200: Experiential Garden-Based Learning in Belize
- NTRES 3260: Applied Conservation Ecology
- IARD 6010: Experience Latin America II (Chiapa Edition)
Additional service-learning courses can be found here: http://courses.cornell.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=28&poid=13966
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