Education
Campus Engaged Learning for Sustainability
The Office of Sustainability works with faculty across all disciplines to integrate a range of collaborative, campus-based engaged and experiential learning opportunities into their teaching and research to help students expand their understanding of complex sustainability challenges.
From mapping energy on campus using GIS systems to growing gourds in the Campus Garden to create musical instruments, classes with campus engaged learning components have resulted in meaningful experiential learning opportunities for Wake Forest students.
The Magnolias Curriculum Project
Since it was first offered in 2012, this annual workshop has allowed 120 Wake Forest faculty members across nearly all departments and programs to enhance their teaching and engagement with disciplinary-specific sustainability issues. No prior experience with sustainability-related issues in the classroom or in research is necessary, and faculty at all ranks and career stages are welcome. This innovative approach to curricular change, modeled on the nationally renowned Piedmont Project (Emory University), provides faculty with an intellectually stimulating and collegial experience to pool their expertise.
The Environment and Sustainability Studies Program
Since 1995, the Environment and Sustainability Studies (ENV) Program has given Wake Forest undergraduate students the opportunity to explore their passions through minors in environmental studies and environmental science. In 2020, Wake Forest added two new majors in Environment and Sustainability, a BA in Environment and Sustainability Studies and a BA in Environmental Science. The program is located in Palmer Hall on Wake Forest’s campus.
The Sustainability Graduate Program
In 2014, the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, now the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, partnered with 26 faculty from across campus to establish the Sustainability Graduate Programs. In addition to the Master of Arts in Sustainability (MAS) and a certificate program, Wake Forest offers two unique dual degree programs – the JD/MA in Sustainability and the Masters of Divinity/MA in Sustainability.
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