Lex Shapiro’s 2017 ENVS honors thesis, “Pluralizing Paradigms: Rights of Mother Earth in the Plurinational State of Bolivia,” is available as an ENVX publication here. Here is Lex’s thesis abstract: In this project, I examine the complex relationships between humans and the environment in a context where legal rights are extended to recognize pluralism within the […]
Environmental Engagement: Bridging Thought and Action
There’s a new course in the ENVS major effective spring 2017: it’s called Environmental Engagement (ENVS 295)—read the About page on our new site, ds.lclark.edu/envs295/, for an overview. When I reflected at the start of spring semester on what environmental engagement means, I looked at the etymology of engagement to suggest three key features: Here is one rather […]
Your Place or Mine? Engagement Through Storytelling
Environmental Engagement (ENVS 295) is the newest required course for all environmental studies majors, beginning with the class of 2020, offered every semester. Students are offered the hands-on space to develop and complete an individual or collaborative engagement project, in light of the course goal to bridge scholarship and people through communication; here is a summary of all projects from spring 2017. […]
Art, Technology, and Hope in the Anthropocene
ENVS Program seniors take two semesters to complete a capstone project. The options for what students can study are limitless, as are their outcomes: some produce a thesis (see here for spring 2017 honors theses), while others produce alternative outcomes. As two examples of the latter, Marielle Bossio and Kara Scherer audaciously push the boundaries […]
The Situated Approach: ENVS 220 Projects
In ENVS 220 (Environmental Analysis), the sophomore-level ENVS class, students learn several different methods they can use in their research. After developing these skills, they put them to work in a situated research project, done in small groups. This project is one of the first times ENVS students tackle the situated approach, one they will need to use throughout their […]
Sometimes Overwhelming, Usually Rewarding: Exemplary Digital Scholarship Sites
Here at L&C, the Environmental Studies Program stays as hip as possible to current trends in academia, which has meant putting a particular emphasis on developing and honing digital scholarship skills. That is to say, we are encouraged to display our work on websites that we create in ways that are both accessible and engaging […]