Through comparative epistemological approaches, students contrast scientific approaches with Indigenous, qualitative, and place-based ways of knowing nature. By writing scientific papers, summarizing published empirical science papers, conducting field-based investigations, keeping a nature field book, and writing personal narratives, students learn how to understand and appreciate the natural world through phenomenological, empirical, and ecological inquiry. Meets the Critical Learning: FRL requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement.

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Tree Semester or one of (Environmental Program 209 or Biology 208) and consent of instructor.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: FRL, Critical Learning: SA

1 unit — Drossman

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2024	Block 4	Investigating the Natural World	Howard Drossman	TBA	25 / 16	12/22/2024