The Sustainability Innovation micro-credential provides learners with a foundational understanding of sustainability and an overview of projects and initiatives implemented at CU. Learners will also participate in workshops that will teach them creative problem-solving techniques and how to effectively communicate their findings and ideas to innovate sustainability to key stakeholders. Learners will showcase their skills in a project proposal or presentation.
Eligibility
- CU Boulder students
- CU Boulder employees
Delivery Mode
Credit Status
Noncredit
Academic Level
- Graduate
- Professional
- Undergraduate
Time to Completion
1-2 Semesters
Fee
No
Requirements
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Take CU: Sustainability Skillsoft course.
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Attend Impact Accelerator: Design workshop using campus climate action goals and UN GCS principles as frameworks. Outcome: learners generate ideas for campus climate action projects.
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Attend a project-based learning development workshop: covers proposal writing, stakeholder engagement and systems thinking. Outcome: learners gain mentorship and tools to build out and identify support for project proposals.
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Complete a 1-on-1 mentoring session.
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Complete at least one of the following capstone projects:
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Applied learning project proposal/presentation
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President’s Solutions Challenge presentation
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Poster or booth at Climate Action Expo
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Criteria
Learners create a capstone proposal or presentation in which they:
- Analyze a sustainability issue.
- Identify viable solutions.
- Effectively communicate the solutions.
Skills
- Change agent
- Concept formulation
- Consensus building
- Creative problem solving
- Data analysis
- Proposal development
- Presentation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder mapping
- Systems thinking