LibGuides: Resources for Excellence Across the Curriculum: 2022 Excellence Across the Curriculum

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INFORMATION SESSIONS AT https://tinyurl.com/EACinfo2022

What is it?

The goal of this project is to provide a forum for students across the disciplines to present about change-making, sustainability and human rights. Students will identify a social issue and demonstrate a deep awareness of the problem and/or propose sustainable solutions with a scholarly poster session, an art exhibit, oral presentation, and/or collaborative student project to their audience. This opportunity requires students to think critically and be involved with academic research, project based learning, and/or the creative process from start to finish over the course of the semester.

Naturally, this authentic task integrates all of Miami Dade College’s Learning Outcomes (LO). It focuses particularly on Communication (1), Information Literacy (4), and Civic Engagement (6). Since LO 1 develops students’ ability to communicate effectively in a variety of modes (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), not only does this showcase promote the learning outcome for the students presenting, but it also promotes this learning outcome for the students attending the event.

Rubrics

Artist on Climate Change

ART AND CLIMATE CHANGE: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS RESPOND TO GLOBAL CRISIS.
This essay examines various contemporary artistic responses to climate change. These responses encompass multiple media and diverse philosophical and emotional forms, from grief and resignation to resistance, hope, and poignant celebration of spiritual value and natural beauty.

Sustainable Water Use

Changemaker

Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck
ISBN: 9781610918985
Publication Date: 2018-10-15
Walkable City was written to inspire; Walkable City Rules was written to enable. It is the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere.
The Systems Work of Social Change by Cynthia Rayner; François Bonnici
ISBN: 9780198857457
Publication Date: 2021-10-25
The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production and power to "solve" social problems, are not helping. In fact, they are designed to entrench the status quo. In The Systems Work of Social Change, Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici draw on two hundred years of history and a treasure trove of stories of committed social changemakers to uncover principles and practices for social change that radically depart from these approaches.

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Sustainable Food Production in America

Story of Solutions

Arise: Women Healing the Environment

On every continent, women are taking the lead to protect and restore the natural environment, and are empowering others to respect the earth. ARISE presents the stories of a diverse group of 13 women in five countries who have initiated solution-oriented environmental projects in their communities, towns and villages.