Developing Environmental Understanding

Course Description:

EECO 500: Explores how students form their personal environmental identity, values, beliefs, feelings and attitudes. Examines the historic evolution of environmental education and communications, and various theories of environmental learning and literacy. Reviews how environmental education and communication programs approach building a sense of place and wonder, offer direct experience in the environment, help develop responsible environmental behaviours, and build the capacity to implement meaningful environmental actions that resolve environmental problems and issues. (3 credits)