Schedule for University Colloquuim
Summer A 2005

Session 1: May 9 - 15

Introduction & Background

Sense of Place I - Your "Backyard" Field Trip

• Reading: John Dewey, Chapters 1,2,3,5,86
• Field Trip 1: "Your "Backyard" (due May 16th)
• Paper 1 Educational Autobiography (due May 23th)

Session 2: May 16 - 22

Sense of Place II - "A Question of Sustainability" Field Trip

• Field Trip 2- An Estuarine Encounter (due May 30th)
  Assignment: Field Trip 1, "Your Backyard" due May 16th

Session 3: May 23 - 29

Sustainability I:  Introduction to Global Environmental Problems

• Reading: "State of the World 2005" - Forward, xvii - xviii, Preface, xix - xxi, State of the World: A Year in Review, xxiii - xxvii,
  then ONE chapter of your choice to base your paper on

  Paper 2: "Selected Environmental Problem" (due June 6th)
  Assignment: Paper One, "Educational Autobiography" due May 23rd
  
  

Session 4: May 30 - June 5

The "Water Cycle" Field Trip

• Field Trip 3: The Water Cycle (due June 13th)

• Internet reading, "Our Ecological Footprint"
  
  

Session 5: June 6- 12

Sustainability II: Ecological Literacy

• Internet Reading, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac
  

• Reading: David Orr's Ecological Literacy Chapter I, pp. 3-21 and Chapter V, pp. 85-95 and Chapters VI, pp. 97-108, pp. 133-140, and Chapter X, pp. 141-148 and Chapters VI, pp. 97-108, pp. 133-140, and Chapter X, pp. 141-148 (you have two weeks to read)

• Paper 3:  "Education for Sustainability" (due June 20th)
  Assignment: Paper 2 " Selected Environmental Problem" due June 6th

Session 6: June 13 - 20

Sustainability III: Community & Individual Sustainability

Assignment: Field Trip summary 3: " The Water Cycle" due Monday, June 13th
Paper 3 "Education for Sustainability" due Monday, June 20th

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS DUE Monday, June 20th (deadline to recieve it)