Whenever I tell people outside of Lewis & Clark that I’m majoring in environmental studies, I typically get a reaction along the lines of, “Great! We need people like you to help the planet!” or the slightly more critical, “Wow, you’re so idealistic!” These responses are interesting because they both assume (to a certain degree […]
ENVS Students Around the World
Any student who has taken an environmental studies course at Lewis & Clark can attest that we love to discuss the different dimensions associated with each specific place. Whether we are studying abroad or doing research here in Portland, we aim to complicate our understanding of the place by bringing in various dimensions of scale […]
1, 2, >2: The Importance of Counting Beyond Two
Last night I was looking through the different nominated content for the ENVX page (don’t forget that you can nominate your own Digital Scholarship content to be featured by following the instructions on this page) and I had the pleasure of reading content by students in this semester’s course ENVS 350 – Environmental Theory, a […]
ENV-?: Crossing Boundaries in Environmental Studies
At Lewis & Clark, the Environmental Studies Program is interdisciplinary–drawing from and synthesizing multiple branches of knowledge. In the context of ENVS, interdisciplinarity has a particular significance because it allows us to move outside our preconceived notions of what an environmentally-based program should look like. Many people believe that Environmental Studies as a discipline is […]
Unpacking Big Words in Environmental Theory
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 trained to do, […]