Funded Proposals 2010-11

Phase I Grants:

Carole Dennis, Occupational Therapy

Proposal: To develop a two-week module on sustainability into Introduction to Occupational Science, a course required for all Occupational Therapy majors. 

Outcome: This module will expand and make explicit content related to sustainable living and health in this course.

Cyndy Scheibe, Psychology

Proposal: To incorporate sustainability issues throughout “Special Topics in Media Literacy: Media Constructions of Environmental Issues”, which she will co-teach in Fall 2010.

Outcome: The course will include such sustainability issues as those related to intergenerational impacts and equity, with a focus on both national and regional perspectives (e.g., by having students develop their individual research projects around media coverage of a sustainability issue in their hometown or home state).  She will also identify and digitize a range of media documents related to sustainability that could be used by all interested faculty at Ithaca College.

David Turkon, Anthropology

Proposal: To enhance the component on community in sustainable development in “Applied Anthropology” and determine the feasibility of creating a new course on sustainable community development. 

Outcome: The course will include methodological considerations that can strongly inform development programming and processes in ways that ensure inclusion of all stakeholders and sustainable outcomes.

Total proposals funded: 3

Total IC faculty proposals: 3

EcoVillage resident proposals:  0