Meet ENVX contributor Roan Shea! Below you’ll find a brief bio, class level, and a digital scholarship (DS) site link, where you can read more about their work at Lewis & Clark College. Below this information are all ENVX posts featuring this contributor to date; click on any post title to view the full post. To return to all contributors, click here.
Class of 2018 | DS websiteI grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, where I first became interested in Environmental Studies. This interest became one of the many factors that lead me to attend Lewis and Clark College where I study Environmental Studies and Theatre Performance, specifically the intersections between the two. |
Whether we realize it or not, environmental studies (ENVS) seems to infiltrate every aspect of our lives by drastically altering the way we think. Even after taking one introductory level class we bristle at ‘big words’ like sustainability, and start to question commonly accepted bodies of thought. A goal is that students will be able to move past the set of … |
As many environmental studies students come to know as they go through the program, the “s” of our acronym is often mistaken to mean “sciences.” No, we are not environmental science majors and minors–however, we do study sciences. It’s one of the many different perspectives incorporated into the interdisciplinary approach characteristic of the Lewis & Cl … |
Environmental studies students at Lewis & Clark do a lot of explaining of ourselves and our work as participants in a nontraditional interdisciplinary program, one which I must often reiterate is not environmental science (although we do take breadth courses in the natural sciences). Defining, elaborating, complicating are all activities which we are tra … |