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Identifying
and Designating
a Course(s) as part of GSELS
GSELS faculty
will identify existing courses that will be
taught containing
GSELS themes.
There are Two Designations for GSELS
Courses:
1. GSELS-focused courses
will address all course objectives through the
lens of
GSELS criteria.
2. GSELS-related courses
will include a module addressing
GSELS criteria.
GSELS-focused
Courses
These courses,
relatively few in number, will concentrate on
all components of sustainability including its
social, economic, and environmental dimensions,
or examine an issue or topic using
sustainability as a lens. Faculty who teach a
GSELS-focused course agree to promote and
explain how to join the GSELS Learning Network. In the GSELS-focused course,
students will be encouraged (but not required)
to begin or contribute to their electronic
portfolio and learn how to add course work and
syllabi, as well as other accomplishments, to
the portfolio. A GSELS-focused course must
include a civic engagement or service-learning
requirement, which may also be archived in the
portfolio.
GSELS-related
Courses
Almost any existing course can, with some
small additions, become a GSELS-related course.
These courses might incorporate GSELS principles
as a distinct course component or module or they
might concentrate on a single sustainability
principle or issue. Faculty who teach a
GSLES-related course will also explain and
promote GSELS, how to join the GSELS Learning
Community, encourage students to
create an electronic portfolio and identify help
for them to start it. In GSELS-related courses,
students will be encouraged to add the syllabus
and GSELS related coursework to their portfolio
if they choose to create one.
Fieldwork and GSELS Contract Courses
All field experiences addressing sustainability or Earth Literacy
offered as a college course may be approved by a
GSELS certified faculty as qualifying as either
GSELS-focused or GSELS-related (Example: Narrow
Ridge Earth Literacy Field Experience).
Students may also approach GSELS
certified faculty and create a GSELS contract
for a course that is not designated as GSELS-focused
or GSELS-related which will then apply toward
the GSELS designation.
Faculty - Select one of the two designations and
register
the course
you are teaching.
Students must complete (earning a grade of "B")
at least four GSELS-designated courses,
(totaling no less than 12 credits),
one of which must be GSELS-focused, as well
as complete a GSELS Civic Engagement
Project to qualify for recognition as a GSELS
Scholar.
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