Our title: “Environmental Analysis.” Our task: to gather tools and skills that allow us to engage in specific, situated, reliable, relevant environmental analysis. Environmental analysis, like the discipline of environmental studies, is truly a many-headed monster that requires a rich mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis.
ENVS 220 is the methods course for the Environmental Studies major at Lewis & Clark College. Besides building literacy with a variety of technologies and analytic frameworks, this course also offers the opportunity for us to focus our lens into a more specific, situated area of interest that will guide our endeavors and courses as we continue forward. I am combining my environmental studies major with a second major in the English department and this has driven the development of my own “area of interest,” Literary Landscapes of the American West.
You can follow my journey through ENVS 220 by reading my weekly posts and my synthesis of the semester.