Environmental studies is an amazing opportunity to challenge yourself, and to begin to understand what interdisciplinarity truly means. So far in my first year in college, Environmental Studies challenged me the most and made me think outside of the box the most. Although definitely daunting at times, the course is worth it and I hope […]
All In A Semester
This year taking ENVS 160 has provided for some stressful and confusing times, showing signs of hope and contrasting dismality. Environmentalism and environmental studies are not easily navigable subjects. Coming into the class I recognized the high interdisciplinarity of the subject, but truly had no idea of what this connectivity was or how it functions. […]
Rules To Live By
A common belief today is that individual action has the ability to make a change for the good. People focus on what companies they are buying their products from, turning off the lights when no one’s in the room, and bringing reusable bags to the market, revealing how actions to combat climate change has largely […]
Common Threads Weaving Together
There are many common themes that have revealed themselves throughout the span of our course. Of the many, I have chosen to focus on three that serve critical roles in environmentalism: institutionalism, spirituality, and the hybridity of the natural world and humans. -Hybridity- As we enter into the Anthropocene, or the modern age of humans […]
Formulating Opinions
The scope of ENVS 160 is completely unlike that of the AP Environmental Science class I took my senior year of high school. Not nearly as extensive as our class, it hardly talked about what actions can be taken, described through the different philosophies of environmentalism, and instead taught what climate change is and the […]
How We Arrived in the Modern World: An Exploration of Modernism
By Aidan Mackie and Matt Stevenson An Introduction to Modernism All that is the modern western world is due to modernism. The continued belief in the ability to develop and advance technology so that future generations are better off has shaped this world, inspiring the ancient human desire to understand what is objective truth by […]