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Outcomes
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CAS Information
Literacy: Participate in collaborative analysis/application of
information
Collegium:
Learners will be able to locate, evaluate, and employ information
relevant to their analysis of contemporary issues.
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Students will
select a Pacific Island to research on issues pertaining to island
ecology and the local environment.
Students will
calculate the carrying capacity for each of their islands selected.
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CAS Working
Knowledge.
Collegium:
Learners will be able to analyze contemporary issues and choose
courses of action individually and in collaboration with people
of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.
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Students will
work as a group to research and present material on their island
cultures based on, latitude, history, or cluster.
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CAS Effective
Communication: Participate in Collaborative communication projects.
Collegium:
Learners will be able to develop, organize, and effectively present
an analysis of a contemporary issue in oral, written, and technological
forms.
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Students will
present their findings as a group based on island culture, latitude,
history, or cluster.
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CAS Liberal
Arts Perspective
Collegium:
Learners will develop and apply a liberal arts perspective, founded
on a respect for human processes of knowing and informed by immediate
local knowledge, historical understanding, and global awareness,
to the analysis of contemporary issues.
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Students will
write a historical perspective and employ an interdisciplinary
approach to current conditions of their island.
Students will
read a book from literature (Hawaii) and anthropology (Lives
on the Line: Women and Ecology on a Pacific Atoll).
They will
develop an essay with hypothesis each of the two books.
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CAS An Ecological
Perspective: Analyze and evaluate local and global ecological
issues.
Collegium:
Learners will be able to recognize ecological perspectives and
to apply that recognition in their analysis of contemporary issues.
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Students will
compare an environmental perspective from their island to the
Florida environment.
They will
evaluate how each area approaches a solution.
They will
visit a comparative project in So. Florida.
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CAS Effective
Communication: Participate in Collaborative communication projects.
Collegium:
Learners will be able to develop, organize, and effectively present
an analysis of a contemporary issue in oral, written, and technological
forms.
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Students will
present their findings as a group and prepare papers as web pages.
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CAS Information
Literacy: Participate in collaborative analysis/application of
information
Collegium:
Learners will be able to locate, evaluate, and employ information
relevant to their analysis of contemporary issues.
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Students will
read chapters from Tropical Pacific Island Environments and
bring a written list of four main concepts to class. Students
will select a Pacific Island to research on issues pertaining
to island ecology and the local environment.
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CAS Critical
Thinking
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Students will
prepare both sides of an issue and engage in debate both sides
regarding selected issues.
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