Need an Honors Class? Try the 2 credit honors seminar about climate policy and environmental advocacy!!
Students will receive 15 credits total. Credits will fulfill Honors Core requirements (Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies). Other credits may be applicable depending on individual research projects. (Alternative credit may be available to students outside of the Honors Program; this must be arranged in advance with your departmental advisers)
Classes Offered:
Managing the Sea: Conserving Coasts and Oceans in Peril (5 credits), Honors 220 or Envir 496
This class will satisfy the Natural Science, Policy and Decision Making Perspective Requirement
Imagining the Sea: Exploring Literature, Film, and the Environment (5 credits), Honors 394 or Comp Lit 396
This class will satisfy the Human and Social Perspective Requirement
Independent Study and Research (2-5 credits), Honors 499 or SMEA 499/600
This class will need to be approved by an instructor and the category of the perspective must be approved by a PoE Adviser.
Capstone Experience (2-5 credits), ENVIR 491
You will have to do ENVIR 490 in Spring 2013 for this class to count as well as receive Sean McDonald’s approval.
For more information click here!
[study abroad] – Honors Program in Ecuador: International Studies in Writing and Sustainable Practices
Honors Program in Ecuador: International Studies in Writing and Sustainable Practice
Faculty: Chuck Henry, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell) and Elena Olsen, English
Summer A Term: June 22 – July 23, 2012
Cost: $4,100 (this includes tuition)
Credits: 15 credits (3-credit Spring prep seminar; 12-credit program in Ecuador)
Variation of credits may be available per preapproval with your department
All UW students are welcome to apply, priority given to College/Interdisciplinary and Departmental Honors students.*
*If you are not part of the Departmental Honors Program yet but are eligible, please see Joe or Stanley for details.
After completing the 3-credit Spring Seminar, students will live and work in three distinct regions in Ecuador: in Cuenca in the high Andes; in the Galapagos Islands, and in Ecuador’s largest city, the southern port of Guayaquil (with short stays in Quito and Cuenca). This program is designed to give the student international experience using the concepts of sustainable practices and permaculture while also traveling, living, and working in Ecuador through the writer’s pen. Students will spend one-third of the program in homestays with families in Cuenca. In addition to hands-on projects in sustainable practice, Intensive daily reading and writing in the fields of creative nonfiction environmental writing; Latin American travel writing, and academic texts on rural development in Ecuador and other Latin American countries. Students will extend their experiences in sustainable practices, learn about the cultural and socioeconomic history of rural Ecuador, and study and practice writing of place via creative nonfiction and other modes of daily writing. Final product will be a portfolio and presentations.
For more information go to: http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/ecuador/ or contact Elena Olsen at elenao@u.washington.edu.
Apply to be a Peer TA for ENVIR 100
ENVIR 100 – the first class in the series of ‘core classes’ required for the Environmental Studies major: you know it; you love it. We are looking for applicants to be peer TAs for ENVIR 100 for autumn quarter 2011.
The quick details:
- Lead your own discussion section
- Great experience for students interested in Education or any graduate program
- Can count towards degree requirements for a major/minor in Environmental Studies
Full announcement and application procedures after the break!
Peer TA for Environmental Studies 100: Interdisciplinary Foundations
The Program on the Environment is currently accepting applications for 3 peer TA positions for the autumn quarter 2011 offering of ENVIR 100: Environmental Studies 100: Interdisciplinary Foundations. Peer TAs are registered undergraduate students with superior qualifications, who are trained in teaching skills, and serve in the same capacity as graduate student TAs. This is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable teaching experience while still completing your undergraduate degree. This would be especially valuable to students interested in environmental education or for students interested in applying to graduate school.
The total time commitment is anticipated to be approximately 15 hours per week. As a Peer TA, you will be responsible for attending the lecture for ENVIR 100 (3 hours per week), attending a weekly instructor meeting (approximately 1 hour per week), and managing one discussion section (2 hours per week). Additional tasks include: preparation for your discussion section; meeting with students during office hours, extra help or review sessions; and grading.
Peer TAs will earn academic credit (1-5 credits, variable, of ENVIR 498,
graded).
Priority will be given to students who meet the following requirements:
1. Completion or current registration in BIOL 492: Teaching of Biology
2. Completion of ENVIR 100 with a minimum grade of 3.0
3. Environmental Studies (Program on the Environment) majors or minors
4. At least Junior level standing.
Credits earned for being a peer TA can be applied to one of the following requirements for the major in Environmental Studies:
· Policy and Decision-making perspectives
· Departmental Honors requirement of ENVIR 497/498 (substitutes for both requirements)
To apply, please submit the following:
1. Resume
2. Unofficial copy of your UW transcript (transfer transcripts not necessary)
3. Statement of intent answering the following questions (no longer than 2 pages):
a. What is your interest in being a peer TA for ENVIR 100?
b. What kinds of unique abilities or experiences would you bring to this position?
c. How does your knowledge of or experience with teaching or environmental studies qualify you to be a peer T.A.?
Paper applications can be submitted to the PoE advisers in ACC 012. Electronic materials may be submitted via e-mail to jkob@uw.edu.
Applications will be considered as they are submitted. For priority consideration, please submit your materials no later than Friday, May 13, 2011.