It’s been some time since I’ve documented my progress so far in ENVS 220, and now seems like a great time because we have finished all of our skills labs and will be moving into our concentration project. Here are some of my thoughts on the major aspects of ENVS 220 so far. LABS I […]
Lab 9: Interviews
Following up on last week’s Lab 8: Surveys, each lab team in ENVS 220 conducted follow-up interviews for a half-dozen students who took the survey and were willing to be contacted for further opinions about the respective survey topics. My team again looked at Bon Anxiety at Lewis & Clark College; specifically for this lab, […]
Updated Concentration Proposal
Last Friday was the deadline for ENVS 220 students to submit their updated concentration proposals. Feedback from the committee members was issued to us sometime earlier, and we were expected to revise each section of our proposals in preparation for this week’s final examination of concentration proposals. For my proposal, I placed emphasis on the […]
Political Ecology
Political Ecology: What is It? In Garry Peterson’s study observing political ecology through the example of salmon in the Colombia River Basin, Peterson defines political ecology as “…an approach that combines the concerns of ecology and political economy to represent an ever-changing dynamic tension between ecological and human change, and between diverse groups within society […]
Lab 8: Surveys
Background: A survey is a way in which to perform extensive research; generalizing data by region or other populations. This narrows down data to perform intensive research in order to further understand the significance of correlations in the data. Effective surveys require a careful balance of effective questions, survey ethics, interpersonal communication skills, and data […]
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