Summer Perspectives and Experiences classes are now ready for your viewing pleasure! Please feel free to check it out here! As always, with any advising questions, please email poeadv@uw.edu as this is not an exhaustive list.
Unique and Exciting Opportunity to Serve as Peer Instructor with Program on the Environment and UW International Educational Outreach
Eight upper-level undergraduate students from diverse programs are sought to assist as Peer Instructors with students from Japan (Keio University) from August 1st-21st. The course, “Humans and the Environment in the Pacific Northwest,” will expose the visiting students to topics ranging from forest ecology and water to green building and urban food sustainability. Peer Instructors will assist in leading activities (including field trips to places like Mt. Rainier, the Cascade Mountains, and the Bullitt Center and activities like hiking and canoeing) as well as in mentoring students on topic-based research projects. Students need to be available at least part-time and preferably full-time during the course period.
Benefits include:
· Fun field trips and learning.
· Potential T.A. course credit or capstone credits.
· Enhancement of resume-building skills including teaching, facilitating, and project management.
· Practice communicating with international students and development of friendships with Japanese youth.
· Training and mentoring from course instructor.
Comment from previous Peer Instructor:
“Not only do I now have the capability of teaching a class of non-native English speaking students, but I have an increased competence in working with a large teaching team and coordinating events amongst multiple parties to ensure the efficacy of lesson plans and safety of field trips. The Keio program gave me a taste of what I want to do and what I will always incorporate into my life…I am so proud to have been part of something so wonderful.”
Positions will be filled on a rolling basis in spring quarter 2013. Some experience in environmental studies and/or Japanese studies is preferred, but not required. Please email course Instructor Megan Horst ASAP at horstm@uw.edu to be considered.
Make sure to get your FREE TICKETS to go see Ken Balcomb III on May 2 as he presents his research and experiences with Salish Sea orcas. To get complimentary student tickets, email Susan Bullerdick at coseeolc@uw.edu, or if not a student, purchase tickets at http://www.seattleaquarium.org/sound-conversations
Check on the PoE Perspective and Experiences page to find out what credits this course counts for!
Plastics in the Ocean – with Giora Proskurowski (UW Oceanography)
Plastics in the Ocean – with Giora Proskurowski (UW Oceanography)
On April 24, discover the impact of plastics on the world’s oceans with Giora Proskurowski from UW Oceanography.
While working on a research sailboat in the Pacific Ocean, UW Oceanography Research Scientist Giora Proskurowski observed water littered with confetti-size pieces of plastic debris, then the wind picked up and the particles disappeared. After taking subsurface samples at a depths of up to 16 feet, he discovered that wind was pushing the lightweight plastic below the surface. That meant that decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean, conducted by skimming the surface, may in some cases vastly underestimate the true amount of plastic debris in the oceans.
Free for UW Students!!
A Humble Feast is a student-run “pop-up” restaurant in the Husky Den kitchen intended as an experimental laboratory for cooking whole-food affordable meals on a student budget as well as for farm-to-school food sourcing. It is sponsored by the UW Student Food Coop and will source produce from the UW Student Farm. Come join the fun!
Purchase at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/374274
Happy Earth Day!
The Interactive Theater as Pedagogy Project
Join Us!
The Interactive Theater as Pedagogy Project
April 23, 2013
(3:00-5:00, HUB Rom. 250)
Reception to follow
FREE admission
Space is limited RSVP today
See ITPP Flyer for more details.
The Interactive Theater as Pedagogy Project (ITPP) is a unique kind of Learning Community. It is a group of UW faculty, staff-educators, and graduate students who are committed to building skills in social change theater to spark dialogue on issues of institutional oppression and privilege. Project participants create and perform interactive plays that depict the complexities and challenges of this diverse university climate, and aim to prompt reflection, response, and action among audience members.
Great summer quarter special topics options at PoE
Just a quick reminder that summer registration should now be open for all UW students. You can find a full list of courses for the different ‘perspectives and experiences’ requirements here.
Please note we have some great ‘special topics’ this summer at PoE including:
– Environmental Writing with Frederica Helmiere
– Environmental Interpretation with Celese Spencer and (PoE alumna) Suzy Karl (option to earn the NAI ‘Certified Interpretive Guide’ with additional fee)
– Global Change field course with Tim Billo
– Business and the Natural Environment with Tim Hargrave (UW Bothell)
As always, let Joe or Julie know if you have any questions!
[workshop]: Interviewing for Environmental Careers
[workshop]: Interviewing for Environmental Careers
Career Skills Workshop: Interviewing for Environmental Careers When: Wednesday, May 8; 5:00 – 7:00 pm Where: PoE Commons, Wallace Hall 012 What: A career skills workshop hosted by PoE, The PoE Alumni…
Short bios for several of the alumni volunteers have been updated. Follow the link above to RSVP for this workshop.