Overview
This site documents and shares our students’ spring semester 2020 work in ENVS 295 (Environmental Engagement), a required course in the ENVS major and minor. Here is the course description:
Faculty-directed student engagement, connecting environmental scholarship to people in a variety of settings. Identification and finalization of engagement opportunities; development of communication, cultural competency, and related skills; reflection on engagement experiences; and authoring and sharing of outcomes.
Student work
The best way to appreciate environmental engagement is to read how our students have reflected on it in a series of posts!…see a list of all student participants on this site so far, with links to their portfolios. Here is what they’ve done:
- We started with an overnight engagement reconnaissance trip…
- …then did a deep dive into four challenging themes of environmental engagement, including
- Effective action, thinking of engagement as “conversation toward action.”
- The What: Engaging in a post-truth world
- The Who: A divided public
- The How: Promise and pitfalls of dialogue
- We also spent a good deal of time developing engagement partnerships as a basis for collaborative engagement projects.
- By spring break, students completed a reflection post.
- Following spring break, students began to work on engagement projects via
- Brainstorm posts
- Posts exploring the What, Who, and How of their projects
- Posts exploring their project goals, assessment, and preliminary input
- Then they assembled these pieces into proposed engagement projects as their final outcomes for the semester.
- (And some students posted on environmental engagement and coronavirus for extra credit.)
Please contact the Lewis & Clark Environmental Studies Program if questions.