| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.71 |
| Liaison | Christie-Joy Hartman |
| Submission Date | Sept. 13, 2024 |
James Madison University
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Jennifer
Coffman Professor School of Integrated Sciences |
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:
International immersive experience opportunities related to sustainability occur regularly and vary each year. Multiple programs have an explicit focus on sustainability, and/or include modules dedicated to the topic. For example, immersive courses regularly offered in Tanzania and Costa Rica by faculty members from the College of Integrated Science and Engineering explicitly focus on human-environment interactions and conceptualizations of sustainability/appropriate technology. The immersive programs promote place-based learning to explore sustainability topics such as dimensions of rural life, impacts of major cities, varied land uses and pressures on the land, and use and potential of renewable resources, among other things.
Example of programs: East Africa Field School
Location: Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Kakamega, Laikipia, Kajiado, Longido, Arusha, Tanzania, Kenya.
ANTH 391 / HIST 391 / GEOG 491 / ISAT 480 / SOCI 391 Human-Environment Interactions and Perspectives on Development, Part I
ANTH 391 / HIST 391 / GEOG 491 / ISAT 480 / SOCI 391 Human-Environment Interactions and Perspectives on Development, Part II
The summer 2024 program took place May 15 - July 11, 2024.
http://www.jmu.edu/international/abroad/programs/jmu-east-africa-field-school.shtml Accessed 10/12/23.
Searches using the words "sustainability" and "environment" can be conducted at this website to find the programs offered at any given time: https://www.jmu.edu/global/abroad/search-courses.shtml
Website URL where information about the institution’s immersive education programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Information obtained from Center for Global Engagement website: https://www.jmu.edu/global/abroad/all-programs/index.shtml
The international programs noted in this credit are longer than a week, and thus meet the criteria for this credit.
Completed by Essa Paterson, ISNW, October 12, 2023. Content reviewed by Jennifer Coffman, Director, JMU East Africa Field School, April 4, 2024.
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