Goals:

1. To engage students in an array of community study trips to develop a heightened awareness and understanding of their environmental components and thereby enhance their "sense of place."
2. To provide contextual community based experiences for students that supports their making meaning from course readings and discussions. Environmental Education.
3. To affirm with students the values of learning from first hand experiences in diverse environments, i.e., Ecological Literacy.

Objectives:

Students will:

1. demonstrate increased awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the significance and value of local environmental components based on interactive experiences in the field at a range of "environmental type" locations.
2. make appropriate connections from readings and class discussions and interactions on colloquium community field trips.
3. demonstrate a heightened "sense of place" in their unique environment as a result of their field experiences through expression of increased sensitivity, emotional connections, and physical interactions in their journals and class discussion.
4. demonstrate understanding of ecological, economic, social, political-policy, health and recreational connections of all of the "specific type" community study trip experience interactions.
5. be more motivated to initiate their own "field experiences in their community that will continue to develop their "sense of place" as a result of the stimulus and confidence gained in Colloquium experiences.

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