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Take UFV courses aligned with the SDGs

Discover the interconnections between your studies and the natural and social environments by taking courses aligned with one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This tool makes finding UFV courses that align with UN SDGs simple so that you can easily add more sustainability to your UFV experience.

Note that this table was up to date as of Fall 2022. For the most current course information, always refer to UFV's Academic Calendar.

For sustainability-focused courses, sustainability is a central theme of the class. A sustainability-inclusive course addresses sustainability as part of the course content.

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Course	Subject	Course description	Focus/inclusive	Primary SDG	Related SDGs
ADED 325: Teaching Adults	Adult Education (ADED)	Developing theoretical understanding and practical skills to teach adults, focusing on course design, lesson planning, flipped classrooms, teaching face-to-face, blended, and online, developing teaching personas and teaching philosophies, and creating professional development plans. Emphasis is on collaborative learning and reflective practice.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 04: Quality education	SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
ADED 360: Adult Education in Canada: Histories and Trends	Adult Education (ADED)	This course focuses on the development of adult education as a practice and vocation in Canada with critical consideration of the historical, social, political, and economic influences that have shaped the field, both historically and today. Emphasis is on examining how adult education practices shape and are shaped by competing interests and theories of society, human development, and need.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 04: Quality education	SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
ADED 365: Adult Education in Canada: Indigenous Peoples	Adult Education (ADED)	Explores the history of and movements associated with adult education as they impact Indigenous peoples in Canada. Examines how Indigenous adult learners challenge the assumptions, principles, and practices of mainstream Canadian adult education, and the responsibilities adult educators have in addressing these issues.	Sustainability-focused	SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities	SDG 04: Quality Education, SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
ADED 410: Adult Education and Social Change	Adult Education (ADED)	This course focuses on social change, the creation of new areas of practice and new groups of learners, and the effects on adult education with an emphasis on understanding a range of perspectives concerning the role of adult education in social change and how those perspectives impact practice.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 04: Quality education
ADED 421: Advanced Studies of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy	Adult Education (ADED)	Skills-based approach to cultivating self-awareness that combines meditation with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Evidence-based means of alleviating stress, anxiety, and depression to promote well-being used in educational and clinical contexts. Introduction to practical mindfulness methods and strategies for mental health promotion.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 03: Good Health and Well-being
ADED 422: Wellbeing and Lifelong Learning	Adult Education (ADED)	Combining theoretical and personal inquiry, students investigate wellbeing and its role in lifelong learning. Wellbeing promises to correct the tendency to reduce adult education to a narrow focus on information or workplace learning and skills development.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 03: Good Health and Well-being
ADED 423: Advanced Studies of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction	Adult Education (ADED)	Using combined scientific and meditative forms of inquiry, this practice-oriented approach to stress-management systematically trains and refines attention and awareness to enhance mindfulness. Participants investigate stress, stress reactivity, and healthier responses to stress in their own experience and more generally.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 03: Good Health and Well-being
AGRI 123: Horticulture Skills and Techniques for Fall	Agriculture (AGRI)	Practical horticulture work skills for the late summer and fall seasons complement lecture material from a variety of horticulture production courses. Course work will vary depending on the weather, but will include: propagation, fall turf maintenance, seeding, sodding, ornamental plant pruning, horticulture tool and equipment handling and maintenance, garden renovation, and greenhouse production and maintenance. Students must participate in outdoor labs, regardless of weather, as well as in the greenhouse. All students must have steel-toed work boots, rain gear, work gloves, hand pruners and a pocket knife. Off-campus field trips such as the annual field trip will be required at student expense.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 15: Life on Land	SDG 02: Zero hunger, SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
AGRI 124: Introduction to Horticulture	Agriculture (AGRI)	This course introduces binomial nomenclature; the environmental factors affecting plant growth: physical, biological, and chemical control of plant growth; and an introduction to the major horticultural crop groups: fruits, vegetables, greenhouse crops, nursery crops, and turf.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 15: Life on Land	SDG 02: Zero hunger
AGRI 129: Horticulture Skills and Techniques for Winter	Agriculture (AGRI)	Practical horticulture work skills for the winter and spring seasons complement lecture material from a variety of horticulture production courses. Course work may vary, depending on the weather, but will include propagation, spring turf maintenance, fruit tree pruning, greenhouse production and maintenance work, garden renovation, planting and transplanting, irrigation system trouble shooting, and taxonomic keys. Students must participate in outdoor labs, regardless of weather, as well as in the greenhouse. All students must have steel-toed work boots, rain gear, work gloves, hand pruners, and a pocket knife. Off-campus field trips will be required at student expense.	Sustainability-inclusive	SDG 15: Life on Land	SDG 02: Zero hunger, SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

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