INQ-277 | Towards the Green Society: Community Sustainability Initiatives

Crosslisted As: SOCI277

Topic Description:

The course examines the ideals and principles that contribute to conceptualizations on environmental sustainability. Of focus will be the competing meanings, visions, and strategies that signal the social construction of the environmentally friendly society. Discussions on environment occur in a social context where pathways to sustainability are debated and informed by our own cultural understandings of societal organization and human nature. Implicit in the discourse on sustainable futures are the contemporary problems we now face and the foresight required to preserve society. Out of crisis surfaces the empowering challenge of being able to envision and create for ourselves communities reflective of our collective ideals. The course fee covers the cost of a day trip to the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.

Course Types Offered: On-Campus

Topic Approved: February 2012