Personal Sustainability Pathway

 

SUSTAINABILITY 101 | PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY PATHWAY

UBC has made the commitment to integrate sustainability across all disciplines and programs. To promote this integration, you have the opportunity to self-identify a Personal Sustainability Pathway (PSP) to integrate your sustainability interests and passions into your degree program and your overall experience at UBC and beyond. How will you do this?

Faculty and Department

Undergraduate Arts

Program/Year:

Year 1, applying for Environmental Design program in year 2 (2013)

What are your sustainability interests?

I’m interested in or I want to learn more about…

·       Earth systems

·       Human geography

·       How people think/act – what can be done to change perspectives

·       Using my passion for art as a means to initiate reflection and social change

·       Urban planning/landscape architecture – design of cities and green spaces, practically applying sustainable change

·       Architecture – making our homes and buildings better for the environment, what new approaches can we take? New technology? New values for home aesthetics and design?

·       Where can I go? How can I integrate stewardship for the earth into career, lifestyle, influence on others and ultimately positive change?

·       Sustainability Policies

My Sustainability Pathway

Choose up to three of the interests you highlighted above to create up to three overarching goals that you would like to pursue (over the duration of your degree or as you move into your professional life). What is your short to medium term goals? Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years? Be as specific as possible.

My BIG Ideas/My Goals

For each goal below, please indicate how it is supported in your pathway, i.e. which courses or co-curricular activities highlight the goal outcomes.

Goal #1: Through the environmental design program, I want to explore the issue of sustainable development in cities 

• 2nd Year Courses: Geography - learn about physical landscapes and how they shape human development and lifestyle; Visual arts - enhancing drawing skills for use in drafting and design; Earth and Ocean Sciences - how the natural earth works/ resources we use; 
• 3rd Year Courses: if I get accepted into the Environmental Design program I will be taking all ENDS courses with one elective, most likely a geography course. If I don't enter ENDS I will major in Geography (Environment and Sustainability) 
•  UBC Emerging Green Builders: engage with students, scholars, professors, practitioners, and administrators concerned with the future of the built environment, and have access to affordable resources for integrating green design into my studies

Goal #2: I want to be involved in initiatives which extend my knowledge beyond the academic community and give me experience in real world issues

• Community based partnerships: working outside school with the community on a project in sustainability and urban design (Ex: implementing rooftop gardens to a new building/residential area)  
• AMS sustainability fund/SEEDS - apllied research projects in sustianability: incorporate ideas around urban planning, green architecture, or green spaces and get more hands on learning 
• Volunteer experience: working with Stanley Park Ecology or Wild Bird Trust of BC 

Goal #3: I want to participate in a co-op program or other work experience in my area of study

Undergraduate Arts Co-op: 3^rd year – 72% or higher average, work for environmental sector and study geography

Or, SALA (school for architecture and landscape architecture): LARC 570 – internship course: earn academic credit for relevant work experience outside the University; three-way partnership among the students, the agency/firm and the Landscape Architecture Program.

Or, SALA Co-op program: eight-month (two continuous terms) work-term in an architectural firm or in related fields of design or construction

	Now	Summer 2012	Winter 2012-13		Summer 2013	Winter 2013-14
Coursework	SUST 101 GEOB 102 & 103 PSYCH 102 ENGL 100 & 110 PHIL 102 VISA 110 FIST 100	EOSC 114 (Distance Education) ENDS Application Portfolio Development	Term 1 ENDS 221 GEOG 122 GEOG 210 ENGL 227 VISA 182	Term 2 ENDS 231 GEOB 270 GEOB 207 GEOG 250 VISA 183	CRWR 202	Plan 1 (ENDS) ARCH 403 ENDS 301 ENDS 320 ENDS 302 ENDS 420 LARC 440 ENDS 404 GEOG 310	Plan 2 (GEOG) GEOG 310 GEOG 312 GEOG 318 GEOB 307 GEOG 321 GEOG 350 GEOB 372 GEOG 374 GEOB 370
Campus involvement (co-curricular)	Sustainability in Rez Social Justice Club University Christian Ministries	Go Global – International Service Learning: Sustainable development in Costa Rica	Student Environment Centre Sustainability in Rez Common Energy	Cont’d:             SEC Sust in Rez Common Energy	Arts Co-op; Geographic, environmental or architectural work	UBC Emerging Green Builders Common Energy	SEEDS project Common Energy
Community involvement		SPCA volunteer work	UBC Trek program: community service learning	Cont’d            UBC Trek	Environmental Volunteer – Stanley park Ecology or Wild Bird Trust of BC	Cont’d Environmental Volunteer
Other	Sustainability-themed art projects	Summer job in environmental field (Ex: tree farm)	Portfolio Development	Portfolio Development		Sustainability Video Blogs	Sustainability Video Blogs