Classes at the University of North Carolina Greensboro
I teach for-credit courses at UNCG that North Carolina residents may take inexpensively. All of the topics deepen the student’s understanding of living sustainably and peacefully on the earth.
For undergraduates I also offer independent study and volunteer opportunities in school gardens.
I especially recommend the Master of Liberal Studies program in the Division of Continual Learning, 336-315-7746. My base department is Religious Studies where I have an office and telephone, 336-334-5762 and my email is charlie.headington @gmail.com.
Undergraduate Course in the College of Arts and Sciences
- Religious Traditions and Care of the Earth
A study of the eco-theologies and “best practices” of non-Western traditions. This may include Buddhism, Hinduism, and indigenous traditions of Africa, North and South America. Reading, discussion, essay exams and a paper or project.
Graduate Courses in the Master of Liberal Studies program
- Livable and Sustainable Cities (online)
Learning how to redesign our cities in ways that make them more accessible and humane and then integrating them with natural systems to provide energy, comfort, biodiversity, food, and total waste recycling.
- The Meaning of Gardens
The garden is studied as the place where a culture works out its relationship to natural systems, food, and the future of our species. Its history, design, functions and cultural meanings are taken into account.
- Simple Living in a Consumer Society
When everything and everyone is reduced to a commodity, when speed and bigness become necessary, and when corporations rule the world, how are we to lead a balanced life, promote social equity, and partner with the natural world?
- Slow Food in a Fast Food Nation
Industrial food in our supermarkets and fast food in its many forms is making us ill, misleading us and poisoning our land. It is the new Big Tobacco. How do we create an alternative local food culture of seasonal food, farmer’s markets and regional farms?
- Sustainable Living on a Tuscan Farm
Do small farms and rural culture have a future? We visit a farm in Tuscany to answer this question. Partly on-line, partly on-site in Italy, we live on a farm, witness its work and eat its food as we visit significant towns, museums and markets in Tuscany.
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