Teaching Environmental Literacy - Across Campus and Across the Curriculum
To prepare today's students to meet growing global environmentalchallenges, colleges and universities must make environmental literacy a corelearning goal for all students, in all disciplines. But what should anenvironmentally literate citizen know? What teaching and learning strategies aremost effective in helping students think critically about human-environmentinteractions and sustainability, and integrate what they have learned in diversesettings? Educators from the natural and social sciences and the humanities discussthe critical content, skills, and affective qualities essential to environmentalliteracy. This volume is an invaluable resource for developing integrated, campus-wide programs to prepare students to think critically about, and to work tocreate, a sustainable society.