The main ideal topic in this course is describing the global change issues such as pollution, species extinction, and climate change that was not caused by the environmental but from human behaviors as the main source of these issues to occur. For this course, my classmates and I were determining the main causes for Longwood’s and faculty members such as their underlying thoughts, attitudes, feelings, values, and decisions that leads them to these behaviors to be examined as a key component to Longwood University sustainability solutions.  

During this course, we learn to conduct research on indivisible sustainability behavior change topic of our choosing in both independent and groups developing an effective behavior change strategy for people to engage.

For each class period, we share our own opinions and ideas about global issues from our assign readings and podcast for finding ways that inspire people to change their behavior and engage in maintaining a sustainable society. We also examine our own habits and our influencing environments by writing it a journal for each day to determine the main causes of behaviors that needs to be both change and modified.

At the end of this course, we collected all the data and researching facts about Longwood’s campus such as the usages of plastic bottles, Longwood students and faculty behavior and behavior changes, and strategies to maintain Longwood’s campus sustainability. We use these information to form a presentation slides about the serious situation we are facing here at Longwood that needs to be change in making sure that Longwood’s campus is maintain its sustainability from each persons influence and behavior that needs to be changed.

Having this experience each of our class meeting makes me very motivated and confident for speaking my opinions in front of my classmates and people about the issues more efficiently and very clear. This course also help me to be engaged in a discussion about a specific topic by sharing my ideas from the research that I have founded which could be beneficial for the specific topic as well. Our own behavior and habit journal assignment was very interesting to me because I was never notice about my behavior and actions could cause a serious impact to my daily life.

in the fields of psychology, sociology, environment science, economics, and ecology.