2016 SUS489: Sustainability Capstone Student Research Presentations at the Third St. Center in Carbondale, CO 

The capstone course offers students an opportunity to reflect upon, refine, and synthesize their learning over time within the major. Students reflect upon their collegiate experience within the context of the three E's of sustainability and produce a portfolio and a significant research project. For the research project, one or more methodological approach is chosen, articulated, and applied. As part of the learning process with regard to research methodologies, students learn to effectively apply research ethics, with particular focus on ethical treatment of human subjects. Students weave together interdisciplinary thought, demonstrating that they have achieved the learning objectives of the major, and hone their scholarly and professional skills relevant to the study and practice of sustainability.

Culture and Place-Based Equity is a 300-level course that Rachel A. Forbes, MSW developed for Colorado Mountain College. The course integrates a social justice and human rights perspective in exploring cultural case studies and theories as they relate to sustainability around the world. 

SUS421: Fostering Sustainable Behavior is a 400-level class at Colorado Mountain College in the Bachelors of Arts in Sustainability (BASS) program.  Students used the Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM) framework to complete a 15-week civic engagement project which focused on increasing recycling behaviors in Glenwood Springs 

Planting trees on Earth Day with the Colorado Mountain College Summit Campus students at the 2015 Sustainability Conference in Breckenridge.  Thank you to the donation from Neils Lunceford Landscaping! Learn more about the CMC Sustainability Studies program here:  http://coloradomtn.edu/programs/sustainability_studies/ 

Community-Based Social Marketing (CBSM) Research from Spring 2016 SUS421 class. Logo design lead by students for pilot project during the Glenwood Springs Town Spring CleanUp Weeks 

This course explores the roles of individuals, groups, and entire societies in fostering/inhibiting sustainable behaviors. Students study how changing individual worldviews and behaviors as well as altering pervasive social constructs are at the heart of sustainability work, and they explore diverse pathways for encouraging and implementing sustainability-oriented social change. Students explore how a variety of perspectives from fields such as environmental sociology, ecological and conservation psychology, political ecology, and social ecology can contribute to formulating appropriate personal and social responses to the sustainability crisis and to fostering sustainability-oriented social change.