I’ll be honest here. I really struggled through ENVS 160… but I didn’t have to! And guess what! NEITHER. DO. YOU. My problem stemmed from my lack of belief in myself. Right off the bat, I felt that I wasn’t smart enough to be successful in ENVS 160. This was largely due to the […]
ENVS 160 Spring 2017 Roadmap
Student posts below addressed the following: "Provide upcoming students a narrative roadmap to find their way successfully through ENVS 160, linking to all your work on this site and offering them any guidance and encouragement you believe will be useful for their journey." Note that ENVS 160 changes from semester to semester; yet the general guidance below should be helpful no matter when you take the course.
On the Road Again
Start Here Coming into Introduction to Environmental Studies the scope of the subject may seem daunting, and what I have found is that this overwhelming feeling may not go away in one short semester. ENVS 160 will clarify and expand specific lessons and aspects of the subject through readings, projects, discussion, and reflection. I have found […]
“Siri, may I please get directions for ENVS 160?”
Last semester I was told that ENVS 160 would be relatively easy because it was a “soft” science – ENVS 160 was anything but easy. Unlike most traditional science courses, ENVS 160 incorporates both the natural and social sciences in order to better understand the complexity of current environmental issues. I transferred to Lewis & […]
Why are recycle bins optimistic? Because they’re full of cans
Strap in. You’re in for a bumpy ride. ENVS 160 will challenge all your beliefs and expectations about the environment. It will not be a lecture-based class with endless note-taking and Powerpoints. Nor will it be endless streams of facts about the environment systems and the reasons behind climate change. It will challenge all your […]
Open Expectations
Upon beginning ENVS 160, I made sure to keep my expectations open since I’d heard so many varying accounts of what the class would hold. From the first moment of the first class, I knew that we would be going in a very different direction than any environmental science class I’d taken before. Instead of […]
A Shallow Glance into a Deep Pond: A Summary of the Complexities of ENVS 160
This course has a deep and varied basis of information. The purpose of the course is to provide the frameworks on which to build upon with more and more information. It is also to develop a deeper knowledge into what to expect in ENVS, specifically in regard to its interdisciplinary basis. ENVS 160 gave me […]
Jumping Into ENVS 160
You’re new here, so allow me to fill you in on some of the basics of ENVS 160. We don’t spend much of the class really focused in any one discipline. At first, this may seem frustrating. You will find yourself either thinking, “man, that was cool, I hope we stay on this for […]
Get Ready!
Coming into Environmental Studies 160 I had no idea what to expect in terms of content for the class, but I was excited hoping that this class would predict my major for the next four years. I assumed that we would be covering similar topics to the AP environmental science class that I had taken […]
Hear Ye’, Hear Ye’: Take Care in Learning the Fundamentals of Environmental Thought
In ENVS 160, a lot of reading has been done. This class will structure your mind in a way that enhances concentration and promotes articulation. A quiz (almost) every morning percolates the mind, and prepares one for discussion and “environmental” discourse. Throughout the course, we have covered many varying topics. All of these topics have […]
What a Windy Road
Intro to Environmental Studies is not a class that gives you facts that will spur environmental action, however ENVS 160 will teach you how to think and approach different problems and situations that are not limited to the mainstream environmental focus and solutions. As reflected in the Environmental Studies major, this course will take on […]
A Snippet of the Future
The ENVS 160 course with Jim Proctor covers a wide breadth of knowledge and material. It’s difficult to grasp the range of obvious lessons each book conveys, let alone the underlying objectives present in each text. The class is no less than difficult, it comes with vigorous hours of reading, writing, and discussing. But saying […]
It’s All About the Bigger Picture
ENVS 160 is not your ordinary science class. Rather than your typical lecture style high school class with labs consisting of fire and chemicals, ENVS 160 strongly focuses on many aspects of environmental theories and ideas. Over the course of the class, we focused on four major sections: Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Mike Hulme, Making The Modern […]
Navigating ENVS 160
Although technically an intro class, ENVS 160 will not be a class that just kind of floats by. This course will test you, will push your writing and analytical skills, and will allow you to think in ways you never have before. For me, this class completely re-visualized how I view environmentalism and environmental issues. […]
Guidance to those who seek it
ENVS 160 is a challenging course, though it is a course, I would argue, that will provide students with useful skills and knowledge that can be applied outside of the classroom. ENVS 160 is all about challenging perceptions and developing new ones; what you think you know can and will change, just don’t be afraid […]
Easy Enough
I’m taking this course as a declared biology major and as someone with an undeniable preference for the natural and hard rather than social sciences. This course has been challenging and frustrating. It hasn’t been easy to adapt my true / false mentality of scientific facts to the complicated interwovenness of an environmental studies course. […]
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
ENVS 160 has been a whirlwind of new experiences, learning opportunities, and real life applications. It may seem like another environmental science class from the outside, but remember, never judge a book by its cover. ENVS 160 adds so many more aspects of environmental theory and ideas to the class. Over the course of the […]