A Summer 2011 internship!

I am recruiting students interested in a peer instructor role with a summer field course for 35 students from Keio University in Japan. The course is “Humans and the Environment in the Northwest Bioregion” and will run from 8/5 to 8/24.  Topics range from wildlife biology and restoration ecology, to urban sustainability and smart growth. You can register for independent study credits if desirable (either summer or fall quarter), but otherwise it is a volunteer internship as there is no pay available.

The course was created jointly by Program on the Environment and the International Educational Outreach Program in 2005, and I have taught the course most years since then.  Students from a variety of departments and majors have served as peers in the past. There is no specific coursework requirement to participate, just an interest in one of the course topics and environmental or international education in general.

Your role will be to help with small group work in the classroom (for communication skills and environmental content classes) and to help guide a single group of 5-7 students through their final project work.  You will be part of a team of 6 UW peer instructors. Ideally peers are available close to full-time during the course itself, plus a few hours/week in June and July for prep before the students arrive.  In the past we have been able to work around the schedules of students with summer quarter classes or part-time jobs.

If you are interested in this opportunity, I can send you last year’s course schedule and examples of final project topics.  Or feel free to call me (cell is best) so we can discuss the course and the role of peer instructor.

Yours,
John

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John C. Withey, Postdoctoral Research Associate
UW College of the Environment, School of Forest Resources
work: 206-543-5772 | cell: 206-214-6819
http://faculty.washington.edu/jwithey/
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