Evaluate a trans-national environmental challenge of your choice, critically reviewing stewardship efforts and proposing interventions for different actors in order to sustain the supply and availability of ecosystem services. Debate theory and case studies in a seminar style course.
Each of us is called to be a steward of creation (Gen. 1:26-28, Gen. 2:15), but environmental challenges are complex and it can be difficult to live out this responsibility. This course provides students with a rich learning experience as they take a deep-dive into the stewardship of a global natural resource challenge, and learn from classmates in a seminar style course.
In this era of environmental degradation and uncertainty, natural resource stewardship is of vital importance to improve ecological integrity and human well-being. This class enriches students in both their personal role as stewards, and as natural resource management practitioners.
This course explores the biblical basis of natural resources stewardship.
This course prepares missional students to be better-informed stewards of creation and contributes to preparing them to meet others at their point of need.
Learners analyze the ways in which different socio-ecological contexts can influence stewardship interventions.
Learners critically review stewardship interventions by different people groups in various social contexts and propose culturally appropriate stewardship interventions.
Learners evaluate practical ways in which individuals and communities can engage in resilience-based natural resource management.
Students learn experientially from classmates in a seminar style course.
