"Teaching Sustainability and Professional Ethics: production and values in and outside the work place

The course structure and content has been shaped by both the initial considerations that motivated and facilitated the course offering, and the experience of student-teacher interactions over the past three years. In addition to both spontaneous and structured feedback on assigned material, the opportunity for student-teacher negotiations over course topics to be covered in the last six classes have provided a laboratory (without controls) for an initial assessment of several influences on these negotiations. Specifically, the influencing factors include prior course work; the interests students brought to the course, and the dramatic events that occurred during this period, particularly September 11 and the Iraq war and aftermath.