| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.33 |
| Liaison | John Gardner |
| Submission Date | Aug. 1, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ER-12: Sustainability Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
John
Gardner Sustainability Planning & Policy Analyst Office of Sustainability |
Does the institution offer a program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive experience(s) offered by the institution:
UW-Milwaukee offers several immersive, sustainability-focused educational study programs, including study abroad programs such as:
Germany Engineering: Environmental Engineering & Renewable Resources and
Morocco Global Health: Maternal and Infant Health in Morocco: Women's Rights and Family in Islam.
The website URL where information about the immersive experience is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Germany Engineering: Environmental Engineering & Renewable Resources-This unique English-language program features lectures by professors from Kassel University. The seminar will focus on the important issues of climate policy and renewable energy resources, specifically: solar-thermal, wind energy, biomass, and photovoltaics. The program includes visits to local German renewable energy sites and companies. Workshops include field trips and hands-on project work.
Morocco Global Health: Maternal and Infant Health in Morocco: Women's Rights and Family in Islam-This program provides an integrated linguistic, cultural, and public health experience in an Islamic African country of Morocco. Students will examine maternal and infant health in the third world - The social, religious, economic, epidemiological, technological, legal and family issues that impact birth, pregnancy, motherhood and the health of newborns and children. In urban Rabat, we examine the efforts of directors of national programs in public health and HIV prevention, Islamic and feminist NGOs, and the U.S. Peace Corps will guide us through the factors that affect birth and lead to child abandonment and the "social death" of unwed mothers. Students will explore issues of urbanization in the developing world with visits to shantytowns, new urban quarters, and historic urban areas.In the remote rural region of Zawiya Ahansal in the Central High Atlas Mountains, students will live with local families and have hands-on experience in environmental health, community health, and an introduction to the Midwife Training Program. Moroccan traditional healing practices (eating earth from saints’ graves, sleeping at saint tombs) have their origins in Islamic belief and practice.
Germany Engineering: Environmental Engineering & Renewable Resources-This unique English-language program features lectures by professors from Kassel University. The seminar will focus on the important issues of climate policy and renewable energy resources, specifically: solar-thermal, wind energy, biomass, and photovoltaics. The program includes visits to local German renewable energy sites and companies. Workshops include field trips and hands-on project work.
Morocco Global Health: Maternal and Infant Health in Morocco: Women's Rights and Family in Islam-This program provides an integrated linguistic, cultural, and public health experience in an Islamic African country of Morocco. Students will examine maternal and infant health in the third world - The social, religious, economic, epidemiological, technological, legal and family issues that impact birth, pregnancy, motherhood and the health of newborns and children. In urban Rabat, we examine the efforts of directors of national programs in public health and HIV prevention, Islamic and feminist NGOs, and the U.S. Peace Corps will guide us through the factors that affect birth and lead to child abandonment and the "social death" of unwed mothers. Students will explore issues of urbanization in the developing world with visits to shantytowns, new urban quarters, and historic urban areas.In the remote rural region of Zawiya Ahansal in the Central High Atlas Mountains, students will live with local families and have hands-on experience in environmental health, community health, and an introduction to the Midwife Training Program. Moroccan traditional healing practices (eating earth from saints’ graves, sleeping at saint tombs) have their origins in Islamic belief and practice.
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