{"id":4616,"date":"2021-02-15T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/ace\/?page_id=4616"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:08:30","slug":"envrionment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/ace\/envrionment\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainabilities.stolaf.edu\/green-course-listing-2\/\">Green Course Listing<\/a> on St. Olaf&#8217;s SustainAbilities website &#8211; List of courses that address sustainability issues or environmental questions. \u00a0Many of these courses have an academic civic engagement component.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Interpreting Journeys<\/strong>, Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak and Ka Wong (ASIAN 220)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910b3f\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910b3f'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910b3f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Students will be required to present on independent research projects related to sustainability and the environment that they will undertake while in Beijing and Tokyo for the Exploring Asia [AS215] interim course. With the help of this grant, these presentations will be made public, incorporating not only other St Olaf students and faculty, but also Arcadia Charter School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Sustainability in Japan<\/strong>, Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak (AS\/ES 277)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910be9\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910be9'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910be9\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Students investigate community-based approaches to environmental sustainability during this Interim course taught at the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) in northern Japan. Students explore how ARI builds on local Japanese resources to support its mission of training rural leaders from developing countries in organic agricultural practices. Activities include field trips, discussions, and symposia with Japanese students, as well as hands-on participation in the daily food life at ARI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservation Biology<\/strong>, Diane Angell (BI\/ES 226)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910c29\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910c29'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910c29\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>For the past nine years we have hosted eight elementary classrooms a year from Greenvale Community School to St. Olaf\u2019s Natural Lands to learn about wetlands. The program takes advantage of St. Olaf\u2019s 15 wetlands and 150 acres of restored prairie. \u00a0Students in Conservation Biology participated in the wetland site visits from elementary students and created an educational product that supported this effort to educate students about our local wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>See more\u00a0detail about similar past civic engagement assignments in this class &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/ace\/files\/2014\/10\/DianeAngell_ProjectDescrip.docx\">Project Description for Conservation Biology<\/a>\u00a0(Word doc.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction to Environmental Studies<\/strong>, Diane Angell (ENVST 137)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910c63\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910c63'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910c63\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>As part of this course, St. Olaf students visited Greenvale Community School twice during month-long Interim course to engage several classes of 3rd graders on topics related to food and the environment and healthy eating. This interdisciplinary course uses basic concepts of environmental science to explore global environmental issues. Topics are drawn from recent texts and current periodic literature, and participants will recognize many of the themes from coverage in the media. Because most environmental problems involve issues beyond the sciences, the class examines the economic, political, and ethical dimensions of environmental questions and environmental decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Integration and Action in Environmental Studies<\/strong>\u00a0(ENVST 281)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910cac\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910cac'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910cac\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Solving complex environmental problems and generating creative work requires the integration and application of multiple ways of knowing. Team projects connected to community needs bring the department\u2019s three areas of emphasis into conversation within an experiential learning framework. The course attends to the nature of environmental inquiry and creativity, one\u2019s own perspectives and values, and how to use one\u2019s knowledge and skills to contribute in personal, civic and work related roles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Studies Seminar<\/strong>, Charles Umbanhower (ES 399)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910ce4\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910ce4'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910ce4\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Groups of students utilize skills and knowledge informed by environmental studies courses to conduct research and complete projects for various local organizations.\u00a0 The academic civic engagement component of this course varies year-to-year depending on available projects.\u00a0 There may be some years in which the course does not have an ACE component.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Environmental History\u00a0<\/b>(HIST 275)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910d1b\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910d1b'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910d1b\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Students will\u00a0pursue historical research on a topic of their choosing related to the environmental history of Northfield and present their final projects in a public symposium at the end of the semester.\u00a0 The students\u2019 research papers will be shared with the Northfield History Collaborative\u00a0and made publicly accessible\u00a0on its website\u00a0and\u00a0any oral histories they conduct will be added to the\u00a0collections of the Northfield Historical Society. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contentdm.carleton.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/NSRC\/cosuppress\/\">View collection of Student Research Papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Research in Japan at the Asian Rural Institute (abroad)<\/strong>, Paul Jackson (AS\/ES 396)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910d57\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910d57'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910d57\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Environmental stewardship manifests itself in place and culturally specific ways here and in Asia. Through collaborative experimental design students will conduct and communicate environment and sustainability research during this course at the Asian Rural Institute in northern Japan, and they will discover how landscapes and institutions recover after a major disturbance. Field trips, discussion, and symposia with Japanese students, as well as participation in the daily Foodlife at ARI enrich the context of the work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invertebrate Biology<\/strong>, Emily Mohl (BIO 248)<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910d95\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910d95'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910d95\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Students in this course will plan and teach a series of classes on invertebrates to students at Prairie Creek Community School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ENVST 381 Theo-Ethics of Climate<\/b>\u00a0<strong>Change<\/strong>, Kiara Jorgenson, Spring 2020<\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69de5b9910dcb\"  tabindex=\"0\"     >Read Description<\/span><span id='swap-id69de5b9910dcb'  class='colomat-swap' style='display:none;'>Close Description<\/span><div id=\"target-id69de5b9910dcb\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Students will create dialogue guides around climate change topics and facilitate dialogues with constituents at local congregations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Green Course Listing on St. Olaf&#8217;s SustainAbilities website &#8211; List of courses that address sustainability issues or environmental questions. \u00a0Many of these courses have an academic civic engagement component. 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