Overview
This project developed a multitude of online case studies that define the extent of and provide potential solutions for all the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Multiple dimensions of all 17 SDGs were explored, cataloged, and synthesized, including social/humanitarian aspects, environmental impacts, economic costs, government policy choices, and individual human/leadership components. These case studies were cataloged in an OER, which will serve as learning materials for subsequent classes. By establishing collaboration between an Honors seminar course and an Honors capstone course, deeper learning opportunities were provided to the students to more fully engage in the SDGs, and helped them gain insight into how each of them can help improve the world.
About the Project
Saving Ourselves: Rising to Meet Humanity’s Greatest Challenges is a collection of case studies that define the extent of and provide potential solutions for all the Sustainable Development Goals. Multiple dimensions of all 17 SDGs are explored, cataloged, and synthesized, including social/humanitarian aspects, environmental impacts, economic costs, government policy choices, and individual human/leadership components.
These case studies are developed by students enrolled in HON 3220: Saving Ourselves: Rising to Meet Humanity’s Greatest Challenges at Iowa State University, taught by Dr. Kurt Rosentrater.
Each fall semester, when Dr. Rosentrater teaches HONS 3220, the major graded assignment for each student will be to be to compose and submit a chapter for this digital publication. So this work will not only continue to be used as the textbook for the course, it will also continue to expand over the coming years.
Citation
Rosentrater, K. (2025). Saving ourselves: Rising to meet humanity's greatest challenges. Iowa State University Digital Press. https://savingourselves.pubpub.org/