Courses
Spring 3-week, 2013
Environmental Education
Course: EVST/EDUC 205 (4 credit hours)
Dates: April 17-May 1@ Hiram Field Station & select environmental education sites; May 2-7 @ Northwoods, MI
Instructor: Matt Sorrick, Director of the Center for Science Education, Hiram College
This course provides students with the skills, experiences, and understandings necessary to help audiences interpret the environment around them. The class will explore natural history and fundamental environmental concepts, and plan, teach and evaluate nature and environmental education based on best practices and developmentally appropriate strategies. The James H. Barrow Field Station and surrounding park districts and environmental education centers will be our classroom. Additionally, students will be certified to teach national curricula, such as Project WILD and Project WILD Aquatic.
A segment of the course will be taught at Hiram’s Northwoods Field Station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Surrounded by 100,000 acres of national forest, lakes, streams and bogs, Northwoods provides the ideal location to develop a land ethic and reflect on the many ways people change nature and nature changes people. At Northwoods, we will live communally – sleeping in cabins – and each of us will be responsible for camp maintenance, daily chores, and cooking.
Field Trip Fee: $450
- This additional cost includes transportation, room and meals for your stay at Northwoods, plus any field trips.
- Scholarships: Any student who is taking a class at Northwoods may apply for the Paul David Knight Scholarship which is available to cover some of the additional costs of travelling to Northwoods. Contact Matt Sorrick (EM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or PH: 330.569.6003)
Summer 2013
Creative Writing at Northwoods
Course: WRIT XXXX (CM core, 3 credit hours)
Dates: July 7-16, 2013
Instructors:
- Donna Hunt (’97), Lecturer of Writing & Composition, City University of New York
- Jen Hirt (97), Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & English Composition, Penn State Harrisburg
- Paul Cockeram (’98), Assistant Professor of English, Harrisburg Area Community College
What better place to reflect, create and write than the remote, rustic and stunningly beautiful Northwoods Field Station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This course gives you a chance to write poetry, fiction, or essays that invoke a personal, insightful style influenced by an “off the grid” lifestyle. Students will engage in a safe, creative community of writers and develop their skills and knowledge to continue working in the creative writing field. Through formal classes, writing workshops and conferencing, students will complete at least one publishable piece and receive guidance on how to publish. Field trips in the region will help to inspire your written work. At the conclusion of the course, each student will enter a piece of writing to the Northwoods Anthology, a collection of creative writing from Northwoods.
Field Trip Fee: $450
- This additional cost includes transportation, room and meals for your stay at Northwoods, plus any field trips.
- Scholarships: Any student who is taking a class at Northwoods may apply for the Paul David Knight Scholarship which is available to cover some of the additional costs of travelling to Northwoods. Contact Matt Sorrick (EM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or PH: 330.569.6003)
The Creative Life: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Course: INTD 300 (4 credit hours)
Dates: One on-campus meeting (TBA), July 28-August 3, 2013 at Northwoods
Instructor: Linda Bourassa, Professor of Art, Gelbke Fine Arts Center, Hiram College
This Interdisciplinary course engages students in examining the stories we construct about ourselves and our relationship to Planet Earth. Beginning with personal narratives, students will experience the power of language to affect either a greater sense of connection to or separation from the world. Based on Narrative Psychology, lectures, discussions, writing assignments and experiential exercises will complement the physical experience of living for a week “off the grid” as a community that mindfully limits the consumption of natural resources and conserves the pristine natural ecosystem. The goal of this course is to open a space for the development of alternative stories that question, create insight and reflection in order to foster the basis for a healthier relationship with Self and Earth.
Experiential exercises including meditation, service and role plays help to increase our awareness, sense of connection, beliefs, and group dynamics. Oral check-in and sharing of written stories and debriefs will help share perspectives and deepen understanding of more difficult concepts from the reading and lecture material.
Field Trip Fee: $450
- This additional cost includes transportation, room and meals for your stay at Northwoods, plus any field trips.
- Scholarships: Any student who is taking a summer class at Northwoods may apply for the Paul David Knight Scholarship which is available to cover some of the additional costs of travelling to Northwoods. Contact Matt Sorrick (EM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or PH: 330.569.6003)
