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Environmental Conversations Guiding Questions<\/h3>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t

The Environmental Conversations curriculum is shaped by guiding questions and delivered in an integrated, collaborative fashion wherein teaching faculty work together to create and teach EnCon courses. Because the program\u2019s faculty hail from a variety of academic disciplines, students can expect to encounter methods and material from the social sciences, arts and humanities, and natural sciences.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t
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Fall: Life in the Anthropocene<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t
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  • What are ways of understanding and\/or defining \u201cenvironment?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How do I consider, explore and act within the places and relationships I inhabit? How do others consider, explore and act within the places and relationships they inhabit?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • What are some of today\u2019s most pressing environmental challenges and what is the systemic nature of those challenges?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • What stories have been\/are told about our environment and who narrates these stories?<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How do the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization and slavery perpetuate social and racial inequalities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t
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    Interim: Ways of Knowing our Enviornment<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t
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    • How is data collected, analyzed, modeled, and applied in fields collectively understood as environmental studies?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Who or what are ecological actors, systems, and services and what is their value to one another?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • What are ethical considerations of environmental decision-making? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t
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      Spring: Imagineering Earth’s Future<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t
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      • Human beings appear hard-wired for story – telling them, creating them, and living within them. Building upon integral forms of knowledge, what are effective and creative ways to communicate environmental information?<\/span><\/li>\n
      • What motivates and inspires human beings to nurture existing relationships with their environment and\/or to seek a change in those relationships?<\/span><\/li>\n
      • What are strategies and actions for solving environmental challenges?<\/span><\/li>\n
      • What role will I play in Earth\u2019s future?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t
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        Upon completion of the Environmental Conversations Program, students are equipped to demonstrate: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. Knowledge of the integral nature of Earth\u2019s relationships, including those within and among Earth\u2019s systems and the mutual influences of Earth\u2019s systems, flow of goods and services, cultures, and worldviews;<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. Employment of such knowledge in the interpretation of environmental challenges and in the analysis of particular cases;<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. Development of creative responses to local and global environmental challenges; and<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. Reflection upon one\u2019s own ecological vocation and those of communities to which one belongs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n

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