This session the Georgia Tech Language Institute has offered new interesting courses. One of them is Sustainability. In this course students have had the opportunity to learn and discuss sustainability issues. We have examined the process of making a sustainable decision, and why we should persuade the world to be sustainable. Sustainability is the decision and action of maintaining our ecosystem, natural resources, and our community to improve our quality lives. In this sense, during this session we have been focusing on related issues of sustainability in the areas of the environment, business and politics. Students read news articles, listened to videos, and discussed each issue related to sustainability.
For Lisa Berman, the teacher, it was the first time to prepare a class on sustainability. She had had the opportunity to make classes in content courses such as civil rights and literature but not in sustainability. Instructor Berman prepared this course categorizing topics and assigning videos and articles for each topic. We students practiced our reading and speaking skills discussing both the new information and our opinions. Lisa was grateful for this experience because she learned not only about sustainability concepts by herself but also she learned about the opinions, experiences and different perspectives of students from different countries.
Also, in this course we had the opportunity to make a sculpture from recycled materials at Georgia Tech for the Earth Day. This project made students work as a team and gave us an option to make relationships with GT students. Also, this project was a chance to make people become aware of our planet.
After this course, students feel more open to working and protecting our environment making sustainability as a part of our lives.
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