Building a freshman-year foundation for sustainability studies: Terrascope, a case study |
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| Authors: | Ari W Epstein Rafael L Bras Samuel A Bowring |
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| Institution: | (1) MIT Terrascope Program and MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Room 16-177, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;(2) MIT Terrascope Program and MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Room 54-1120, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;(3) Present address: Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 305 Rockwell Engineering Center, Irvine, CA 92697, USA |
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| Abstract: | Terrascope is a freshman learning community at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in which teams of students
work to find solutions to large ‘unsolvable’ problems and to communicate about those problems with a wide variety of audiences
in multiple formats. The program strongly promotes students’ autonomy in focusing and structuring their work, and student
projects culminate in public presentations, both to general audiences and to panels of technical specialists. Students who
have completed the program tend to show strong engagement with environmental and sustainability issues, as well as the skills
and experience to work intensively on such issues within multidisciplinary teams. Here, we present the program as a case study,
with some discussion of the factors that are key to its operation.
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| Keywords: | Project-based learning Project-centered learning Freshmen programs First-year programs Sustainability education |
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