MSE474 EDUCATION AND AWARENESS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
| Course Code: | 4600474 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mathematics and Science Education |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the student will learn:
•how daily life and work can be adopted to improve the environment,
• how to be aware and sensitive to the total environment,
• to acquire social values, strong feelings of concern for the environment and motivation for actively participating in its protection and improvement,
• to acquire a personal view of general and global environmental issue
•that they are part of the natural circle.
Course Content
To develop environmental insights in young people and to contribute to the development of an environmentally oriented behavior with purposeful awareness building and practical conversion. To offer an insight especially for people-society- technology-nature-sustainability relationship. To introduce the concept of environmental education with emphasis on the European Unions policy.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- define sustainability
- define SDGs
- evaluate need for sustainable use of natural resources
- international and national response to global problems
- aware of individual responsibilites
- define footprint
- discuss major environmental challanges