Engaged Learning for Local Food and Environmental Justice

This May, Joshua King (Director of Environmental Humanities) and Paul Martens (Director of Interdisciplinary Programs) led a weeklong Summer Ethics Seminar for fourteen Baylor faculty on connecting classes and student projects to local food and environmental justice.  

In dialogue with local leaders and gardens in the SCRAP Collective, faculty envisioned how nearly twenty classes from across the university can nourish a just and flourishing food ecosystem in Waco.  Classes include everything from environmental ethics, to writing and literature, to sustainable theatrical design, to urban politics, to land use law, to community gardening, and more. Many of these classes are being offered in 2024-2025 as Environmental Humanities courses and are also included in the new Engaged Learning requirement for Baylor's Core curriculum!

Thanks to the Mayborn Museum for hosting and our seminar sponsors: the Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor's Ethics Initiative, and the Funders Network (through their Partners for Places grant program).