Exploring Nature
3.0
creditsAverage Course Rating
This course integrates the analysis and production of environmental media with weekly outdoor excursions. Students will survey a range of authors, adventurers, journalists, scientists, photographers, acoustic ecologists and filmmakers that have explored the natural world and chronicled the history of human-environmental relations and environmental problems. Field trips to regional parks and green spaces will encourage students to discover their own sense of place, foster a deeper level of ecological awareness and construct personal environmental narratives through careful exploration, observation, documentation and reflection.
Spring 2015
Professor: Alexios Monopolis
The best part of this course was that it allowed students to become more aware of their surroundings. Students found field trips to be fun and journal assignments promoted creative thinking. Some students found the lack of feedback on assignments vexing and the class size too large which inhibited discussion. This course could be improved by providing a checklist of possible parks to explore in the metro area, having multiple field trip dates to accommodate schedules, and giving more consistent feedback on assignments. Prospective students should know this writing intensive course is great for students to explore Baltimore.