| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.46 |
| Liaison | Lisa Kilgore |
| Submission Date | March 20, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Cornell University
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Lauren
Chambliss Communications Director Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future |
Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:
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. Thus far, students have helped construct nine water plants, serving more than 38,000 people in Honduras. In 2012, AguaClara began working on projects to improve the lives of villagers in remote parts of India as well (http://aguaclara.cee.cornell.edu/.
Cornell also offers the following immersive service-learning courses, among others:
- ALS 4000: Leadership for Campus Sustainability
- CRP 3072/5072: Land Use, Environmental Planning, and Urban Design Workshop
- DSOC 3400: Agriculture, Food, Sustainability, and Social Justice
- DSOC 4500: Bridges to Community (community development in Nicaragua)
- HADM 6500: Sustainable Development
- HORT 3200: Experiential Garden-Based Learning in Belize
- IARD 6010: Experience Latin America (Chiapa Edition)
Additional service-learning courses can be found here: http://courses.cornell.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=22&poid=11039
The website URL where information about the immersive program(s) is available:
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