Interventions Curriculum

Behavior Change for Campus Sustainability

Welcome to the Interventions Curriculum: Behavior Change for Campus Sustainability

In this series of modules, you will learn about implementing behavior change interventions on campus to advance sustainability outcomes. The curriculum can support instructors to teach about these efforts, and provide guidance for practitioners with their own projects.

Implementing effective behavior change interventions for sustainability is an iterative process. The modules on this site provide resources, examples, activities, and insights on key aspects of developing and applying interventions. We encourage you to explore them in sequence, but you may also want to jump around to find the information most relevant for your efforts.

The Intervention Web

Course Objectives

Participants in this course will learn how to:

Utilize tools and resources to design and implement behavior change interventions
Apply a solution-oriented approach to sustainability in interdisciplinary and practical ways
Facilitate collaboration among stakeholders to lead applied learning projects on the ASU campus

Modules

Each module contains a set of learning objectives, relevant resources, examples, suggested activities, insights from instructors, practitioners, and students, and ways to engage and use what you have learned.

Introduction

Orientation to background and key concepts

Prepare

Laying the foundation for your intervention

Design

Determining how you will attempt to change behaviors

Evaluate

Assessing the impact of your approach

Facilitate

Collaborating with others for effective implementation

Conclusion

Applying what you've learned for sustainable impact

Disclaimer: The interventions curriculum was developed by Daniel Fischer, Jordan King, Shea Alevy, Jacob Ivy, and Courtney Talbot using seed funding from the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems and ASU's Zero Waste team. The project was furthered by an additional ASU Sustainability Initiatives Revolving Fund Grant. Activities were led by Jordan King, Katja Brundiers, Krista O'Brien, Samantha Adamo, and Daniel Fischer. It was piloted as part of a class that was taught in Spring 2020 and adapted for use in a Fall 2021 class. This is a resource that was developed to be used by educators at Arizona State University wishing to implement forms of intervention research into their teaching, while also supporting campus operational staff to implement projects to promote sustainability outcomes.

The will be updated with feedback from learners, practitioners and instructors. To provide feedback or for questions or further information regarding the interventions curriculum, its contents and/or the example intervention projects discussed, please contact Jordan King.

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