| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.26 |
| Liaison | Allison Jenks |
| Submission Date | Nov. 30, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
New Mexico State University
ER-12: Sustainability Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Rani
Alexander Professor of Anthropology Dept. of Anthropology |
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Does the institution offer a program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes
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A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive experience(s) offered by the institution:
Dr. Connie Falk's Sundt Honors Seminar, "Sustainable Development in Central America," focused on institutional and grassroots efforts to integrate social justice, ecological principles, and economic development in the transformation of societies in Central America. Dr Falk's course included a 2012 Spring Break travel component during which students visited Nicaragua.
In the summer of 2011, the NMSU Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management Department hosted an inaugural Sustainability Seminar Series in Costa Rica focused on an introduction to sustainable development and sustainable tourism. < http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/8855/>
For spring 2013 Dr. Brenda Benefit will offer Primate Field Studies in Belize as Anthropology 497/506. The immersive experience allows students to conduct research in primate ecology and conservation.
Also Dr. Fumi Arakawa will offer Anthropology 497/507 Field Studies of Ancestral Pueblos as a sustainability-related immersive experience in Archaeology.
NMSU Engineers without Borders and Dr. Sonya Cooper, Dept of Engineering Technology, also regularly offers sustainability focused immersive experiences
http://web.nmsu.edu/~ewb/Home.html
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The website URL where information about the immersive experience is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
A number of other project-based learning or service learning experiences that are sustainability focused or sustainability related are offered in Anthropology, Geography, Sociology, Government, and Agricultural Economics.
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