Sustainability and Ignatian Values: open course from worldwide Jesuit universities

Description of our collaboration proposal

There are many courses on Sustainability, in many universities across the world, but we feel that there is still a void that needs to be filled, and to which Jesuit universities can make an important contribution. 

Courses on Sustainability mostly address only its environmental component, but lack a careful consideration of social elements, and even more, an integral approach along the lines of the integral ecology proposed by Pope Francis in Laudato Si. Moreover, the ethical underpinnings of sustainability are typically not included, and neither are the deeper meaning questions of one’s own personal and spiritual relationship to the natural world, indispensable for a Jesuit-inspired approach to sustainability.

We believe that at our Jesuit universities we are particularly good at the academic, interdisciplinary knowledge required to present this integrated approach, and we also have a strong motivation to do it: the reconciliation with creation, and the concern for sustainability, is one of the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus. 

Comillas Pontifical University proposes to create a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), through which students and also a broader audience would be able to understand the global challenges that humanity faces, how to interpret them from an integral ecology approach, and how to address them from an ethically-sound point of view.

We would like to recruit faculty from all Jesuit higher education institutions, able to bring their expertise and diversity to this course and make it a global Ignatian project. In this webinar we will explain this proposal to all interested faculty and listen to your proposals.

Needs, support or request

This webinar will take place on December 17th, 17-19h (Central European Time), 8-10h (Pacific Standard Time). Register here. A few days before the event you will receive an email with the link to the webinar.