Guide created by:
Maureen Perault (mperault@wccnet.edu)
Sandy McCarthy (mccarthy@wccnet.edu)
Public Services Careers (PSCD)
Child Care Professional
How will we facilitate a viable connection with farms for young children?
How can sustainable practices be modeled to children in our daily operations?
How can we education young children to learn about farming ethics ?
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
How can we best meet the challenges that will result from our unsustainable practices (weak economies, failed states, food crisis, weather severity, water depletion)
How can we work with communities to build resilience?
Automotive Body (ABDD), Automotive Services (AUTD), Motorcycle Technology (MOTD)
How can we service and customize vehicles to support farms?
What new technologies can help work towards agriculture and farms?
Construction Institute (CIND), Heating, Ventilation and A/C (HVAD)
How can we do our jobs in to assist with farms?
What new technologies can be used to work towards farms and provide positive results?
Industrial Technology (INTD)
How can we make products improve farms?
What new technologies can help us save our farms?
Welding and Fabrication (WAFD)
How can we do our jobs to improve farms?
What new technologies can be used that will give us better agriculture and farms?
Libraries
Business (BUSD), Business Office Systems (BOS)
How can businesses promote farms?
How can the corporate culture be transformed to make decisions that include agriculture and farms?
How would incorporating farms affect a business’s bottom line (or triple bottom line?)
Computer Instruction (CISD)
How can computer professionals make computer systems support farmers and farms in daily operations?
What computer technologies are available to help other disciplines support farms?
Culinary and Hospitality Management (CHMD)
Digital Media Arts (DMAD)
How can digital media arts reinforce farming in daily operations?
How can digital media arts be used to educate people about farms?
Academic and Career Skills (ACSD)
How can we live in a way that will be resilient in the face of the environment, nature and biodiversity?
What careers are in the agriculture and farming industry ?
Behavioral Science (BEHD)
How can people be motivated to change their behaviors regarding farms?
How can we build communities that will be resilient in the face of the environment, nature and biodiversity?
English/Writing (ENGD)
How can we build communities that will be resilient in the face of natural disasters?
How can writing motivate people to change their behaviors and live about farms?
What books and other writing have motivated you to live towards a more sustainable farming environment?
Foreign Languages (FLGD)
In what ways do other cultures practice farming?
How do the farming behaviors in the U.S. affect other cultures?
How have other cultures learned to be resilient about farming?
Humanities (HUMD)
How can communication professionals be more aware of farming issues in daily operations?
How can communication professionals educate people about farming issues?
Life Sciences (LIFD)
Mathematics (MTHD)
Performing Arts (PERD)
How can music, dance and theater motivate people to change their behaviors about farms?
What music, dances, and theater have motivated you to be more aware of farm issues?
Physical Sciences (PHYD)
Social Science (SSCD)
How have cultures dealt with farm issues in the past?
What kind of economic systems promote farm policies?
How can the political system be used to make the society more farm friendly?
Nursing
How can nurses and health professionals be more proactive in farm operations?
How can nurses and health professionals educate people about farming habits?
How can hospital farms serve their community?
How can hospital farms improve access to fresh food, nutrition education, and therapy.?
Allied Health (ALHD)
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