Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum (ISAC) Program was established in 2012 to help Penn faculty introduce environmental sustainability into existing and new courses. Faculty participants explore sustainability concepts at a one-day workshop in the late spring, and then are partnered with an undergraduate student research assistant to work over the summer integrating sustainability into the course syllabi, lectures, assignments, reading material, and tests. The research assistants work 20 hours a week for eight weeks starting in May, and are paid by funds made available by the Academics Subcommittee of Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee.
The application period for faculty and students to 2013 ISAC Program is now closed.
ISAC 2012 Program
Ten professors and six students participated in the ISAC 2012 program. The list of ISAC courses is below:
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Environmental Chemistry (Chemistry, Marsha Lester)
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Landscape Sustainability (Earth and Environmental Science, Doug Jerolmack)
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Sustainable Goods (Earth and Environmental Science, James Hagan)
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Construction Technology 1 (Design, Franca Trubiano)
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Critical Approaches to Popular Culture (Communications, Felicity Paxton)
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Utopian Visions (German, Bethany Wiggin)
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History of Coca to Cocaine (History, Ann Farnsworth)
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Educating for Sustainability (Education, Liz MacKenzie)
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Metropolitan Nature (Urban Studies, Michael Nairn)
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Introduction to Economics (Economics, Rebecca Stein)
Read the On College Green article about the ISAC 2012 Program.
