Sustainable development:: ten years of experience at ITESM's graduate level

This paper presents the experiences of a multidisciplinary team of professors during the design, implementation and evolution of a core course on Sustainable Development, at the graduate level for all Masters programs within the Monterrey Tec System (ITESM). During the last ten years, the SD course evolved and we tried several teaching techniques, methods and platforms from a traditional classroom to a distant teaching/leaming, up to an on-line course. The most important changes have been the content and the impact of the course upon the personal and professional lives of the students. Initially it was mostly an informative course about the most important environmental issues and their social and economic consequences. The next step evolved to a mixture of informative and formative course with a holistic approach. Nowadays, the students leave this course as empowered 'agents of change' knowing how their everyday actions and choices have an impact on the environment, our society and the well-being of the future generations. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.