Environmental Studies Commons^™

Second Nature: Hamilton College And The Natural Environment, Peter Simons, Sabrina Boutselis '19, Jack Hay '19, Noelle Connors '19, Emma Raynor '18, Leigh Preston '18, Emma Morgan '18, Elise Lepage '18, Chloe Keating '18, Laura Kwasnoski '18

Books

The following histories explore the boundaries between the human and natural environment on Hamilton College’s campus. They were written for the Environmental Studies course “Interpreting the American Environment” and incorporated site visits and consultations of the historical record in order to better understand familiar places on Hamilton’s campus. Through this research, the contributors identified the human imprint on natural places and located nature in the built environment.

Analyzing Policy And Stakeholder Perspectives – The Case Of The Spotted Owl, Victoria Derr

Activities and Assignments Collection

• Effectively reading in our discipline – focused on Text-Based Discussions
  • Collaborative Meaning Making – reading as an inquiry into meaning and a purposeful engagement with ideas. [1]
  • Setting Reading Purposes and Adjusting Reading Processes – reading for a specific, disciplinary-relevant purpose.[2]
• Identifying and analyzing stakeholder perspectives
• Applying policy to understand stakeholder perspectives

[1] Schoenback, Ruth, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Lynn Murphy. 2012. Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms. WestEd.org.

[2] Ibid.