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Climate Justice Across the Curriculum: Resources and Funding for YOUR Classes
Posted by anne.grey
Presenters: Taryn Oakley, Roberta Richards, Stephania Fregosi, Kim Smith, and Lutgarda Cowan.
Summary
In this presentation, PCC faculty and sustainability partners share practical ways instructors can bring climate justice into courses across a variety of disciplines. Climate justice does not need to be limited to environmental science courses. Faculty can connect environmental and social issues with topics already being taught in areas such as writing, sociology, community-based learning, and other fields.
The session highlights PCC resources that can help instructors develop or strengthen climate-related curriculum. Faculty can connect with Sustainability Practices and Resources for Curriculum (SPARC), collaborate with colleagues, use sustainability and climate-focused teaching resources, and find ideas that can be adapted to existing assignments and courses.
Presenters also draw attention to funding and professional development opportunities that can help faculty move an idea from planning into practice. These resources can support course revisions, sustainability projects, experiential learning, and other approaches that connect students with climate justice issues affecting their communities.
Throughout the session, faculty are encouraged to start with the learning goals they already have and consider where climate justice naturally fits. By using PCC resources, campus and community examples, interdisciplinary approaches, and available funding, instructors can create meaningful opportunities for students to connect course content with environmental responsibility, equity, and real-world action.
Presentation Slides: Climate Justice Across the Curriculum: Resources and Funding for YOUR Classes Presentation Slides
Presentation Outcomes
- Identify ways climate justice can be incorporated into courses across multiple disciplines rather than treated only as an environmental science topic.
- Locate PCC sustainability and SPARC resources that can support the development or revision of climate-related curriculum.
- Identify funding and professional development opportunities that can support sustainability, climate justice, and curriculum projects.
- Adapt existing assignments, activities, and course content to include relevant climate justice perspectives and questions.
- Connect students with campus, community-based, and real-world sustainability issues that make climate justice more relevant to their learning.
- Use interdisciplinary collaboration and PCC resources to create learning experiences that connect environmental responsibility, social equity, and student engagement.
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